A Model World and Other Stories

• "S ANGEL" - Ira, a 4th year UCLA drama student attends his cousin Sheila's Jewish wedding reception in a Pasadena hotel where he is attracted to Carmen, an older woman from Altadena, but things don't turn out as expected. ([https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1990/10/22/s-angel online text] from The New Yorker, Oct 22 1990 - subscription required)
• "Ocean Avenue" - on Ocean Avenue, architect Bobby Lazar unexpectedly meets his ex-wife Suzette but they clash over their divorce - she sold his collection of William Powell memorabilia, he sold her collection of 1958/59 Barbie Dolls. ([https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1989/11/06/ocean-avenue online text] from The New Yorker, October 29, 1989 - subscription required)
• "A Model World" - In a bookstore in Long Beach, Levine finds a book called Antarctic Models of Induced Nephokinesis (cloud control) published in 1970, the very subject he is writing his dissertation on, and he decides to plagiarize it.([https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1989/05/08/a-model-world online text] from The New Yorker, May 8, 1989 - subscription required)
• "Blumenthal on the Air" - the title character works as a DJ on a Paris radio station and lives near Père Lachaise Cemetery with his Iranian wife Roksana, whom he married to save from deportation. Strains in their relationship come to a head on Bastille Day on a visit to Le Pouliguen. (first published in Mademoiselle in 1987{{cite book |editor1-last=Costello |editor1-first=Brannon |title=Conversations with Michael Chabon |at=Chronology |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |url={{Google books|zdalCgAAQBAJ|plainurl=yes}} |access-date=10 November 2022}})
• "Smoke" - Matt Magee, a baseball pitcher is attending the funeral of his catcher in Pittsburgh who was killed in a car wreck. ([https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1990/04/02/smoke-5 online text] from The New Yorker, March 25, 1990 - subscription required)
• "Millionaires" - Vince and Harry share everything except girls, but when Harry breaks up with Kim, Vince seizes the opportunity. ([https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1990/01/29/millionaires-2 online text] from The New Yorker, 21 Jan 1990 - subscription required)

• "The Little Knife" - On what turns out to be their last family holiday together, travelling down the I-95 to Nags Head, North Carolina, Nathan Shapiro's parents have a row and finish the holiday early. ([https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1988/04/04/the-little-knife online text] from The New Yorker, 4 Apr 1988 - subscription required)
• "More Than Human" - On their weekly Thursday night trip to local libraries, Nathan's father fails to tell him about his impending divorce. (first appeared in Gentleman's Quarterly in 1989)
• "Admirals" - 18 months after the divorce, Nathan and his brother travel with their father and his girlfriend from Ellicott City to Annapolis. ([https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1987/09/14/admirals online text] The New Yorker, 6 Sep 1987 - subscription required)
• "The Halloween Party" - Nathan resolves to tell Eleanor Parnell, a friend of his mother, of his love for her at a Halloween party she is hosting. ([https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1988/09/26/the-halloween-party-2 online text], The New Yorker, 18 Sep 1988)
• "The Lost World" - After his mothers wedding, and hearing that his fathers wife is expecting a baby, Nathan and three friends get drunk and pay a visit to Chaya Feldman an old friend of Nathan who has a reputation for promiscuity.([https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1990/08/20/the-lost-world online text] The New Yorker, 12 Aug 1990)

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• [http://movies2.nytimes.com/books/00/09/24/reviews/world.html Review from The New York Times]

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