Michael Chabon is a genius. Now I'm convinced that the name Feld is deliberate and just comes up, in a minor way, in all his books, and if I reread Kavalier & Clay I would notice it there. Someone eats a slice of bread "whitened with margarine" which shows so much about the character in so few words I am bowled over. (It reminds me a scene in Straight Man in which someone is given a sandwich into which a puny amount of the disgusting substance called "pimento loaf" has been "massaged.") Also, someone has a poster with the gibbous face of Greta Garbo.