Below is the transcript. If Chabon says he's straight, so far as I'm concerned he's straight. In any event it doesn't matter.
Fiction is an art of the imagination.
William Styron didn't have to be African American in order to imagine himself into the mind and soul of Nat Turner, and Anne Tyler didn't have to be a man in order to imagine herself into the mind and soul of Macon Leary. Don't be so literal-minded. No, as The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay makes plain, Chabon is determined to move into larger territories on a grander scale. Chabon is sui generis. No doubt others will try to imitate him, but the one certainty is that they will fall laughably short.