Jews With Swords

One of my all-time favorite slingers of the written word, Micheal Chabon, privately refers to his new book Gentleman of the Road as Jews with Swords.

[It] was usually good for a laugh. I guess it’s like saying ‘pigs in space’ or something. There’s a kind of incongruity there in most people’s minds.”

In classic Dickensian tradition it’s been serialized in the New York Times.