Locus have posted an excerpt of their interview with Hugo and Nebula winning Michael Chabon. The more I read of his interviews, the more I like him, even though I haven't read a word of his books yet (this will change soon!).
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"I remember reading things which blended genres that way. Isaac Asimov's Lucky Starr novels -- those are detective stories. (I liked them at the time.) And Larry Niven did 'Gil the Arm'. Blade Runner was noir and SF at the same time. So it was far from the case that I thought, 'Oh nobody's ever done this.' There was a tradition and I was fully aware I was drawing on it. I guess for me the new wrinkle (if there was one) was going to be the Jewish subject matter, bringing that in as a kind of key third element.
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