It drains the bars and cafes after hours, concentrates the wicked and the guilty along its chipped Formica counter, and thrums with the gossip of criminals, policemen, shtarkers,and schlemiels, whores and night owls ... three or four floaters, solitaries, and drunks between benders lean against the sparkly resin counter, sucking the tea from their shtekelehs and working the calulations of their next big mistake.

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.