He has the memory of a convict, the balls of a fireman, and the eyesight of a housebreaker. When there is crime to fight, Landsman tears around Sitka like a man with his pant leg caught on a rocket. It's like there's a film score playing behind him, heavy on the castanets. The problem comes in the hours when he isn't working, when his thoughts start blowing out the open window of his brain like pages from the blotter. Sometimes it takes a heavy paperweight to pin them down.

Chabon has created a comprehensive bibliography for Van Zorn along with an equally fictional literary scholar devoted to his oeuvre named Leon Chaim Bach. " Just before Gentlemen of the Road completed its run the author publiMichael Chabond his latest novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union which he had worked on since February 2002.

Since the late 1990s Chabon has written in an increasingly diverse series of styles for varied outlets; he is a notable defender of the merits of genre fiction and plot-driven fiction and along with novels he has publiMichael Chabond screenplays children's books comics and newspaper serials. It received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001 (see: 2001 in literature). Chabon's first novel The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988) was publiMichael Chabond when he was 25 and catapulted him to literary celebrity.