Talk:Michael Chabon

message: To the anonymous editor who keeps changing the "gay writer" passage: if you feel strongly enough about it, please discuss it here, rather than just repeating the same revert; edit summaries are not the right venue for a debate. As for "who cares" - it's notable because Chabon and his critics thought it was notable. It figured pretty prominently in the reviews of his first few books, and many of his interviews - a lot of critics just assumed that no straight writer would choose to write about gay protagonists, or would be able to do it at all well. It's interesting both as a footnote to Chabon's biography and as a symptom of widespread attitudes about literature and identity. ←Hob 03:59, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  "gay writer" reverts 

message: "...and is at work on a rewrite of a project for Disney, a live-action martial arts retelling of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, to be directed by master Hong Kong fight choreographer and director Yuen Wo Ping."
I put a after this, because even though I know this is true, it sounds ludicrous in and of itself and I couldn't find a credible source to support it. Anyone have one they care to link to?
68.9.101.244 22:20, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Film 

message: Can anyone with more Wikipedia experience explain to me what I might have done wrong trying to edit this page?  When I previewed my edits, everything was fine, but when I saved the page, half the article disappeared.  I fixed the mistake (twice) by reverting to a previous version, but I've never had that happen before.  Thanks in advance for any advice.ShelfSkewed 04:34, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You were trying to add a biography section right? I just tried and it seemed to work fine for me, unless you're refering to something else. I don't know what the problem would be. -Fearfulsymmetry 18:03, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I tried what you did, plus removing the Personal Life heading and moving that sentence to the end of the Biography section.  Well, maybe my earlier experience was just a fluke: I just tried it again, and had no problem at all.ShelfSkewed 14:07, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In case anyone still cares, I ran across this recently in Wikipedia:Article_size: "There is currently (June 2006) a problem with the latest version of Firefox when combined with the Google toolbar. See the Bugzilla case for more information."  The Bugzilla link leads to a page citing many, many experiences like mine.  And I do use the latest version of Firefox plus the Google toolbar, so I guess that explains it.ShelfSkewed 22:55, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Editing problem 

message: I read the NY Review of Books article that's linked to in this section. In it, Chabon does mention his own same-sex experiences, but doesn't mention anything about the main character's "homosexuality" as this section previously said it did. Indeed, in the novel, the narrator says that he is not gay, but felt that he needed to expand his range of experiences. So, I moved the citation. I also removed the bit about Chabon being married to a woman since it's superfluous, and if Chabon is bi (I don't know whether he identifies as such), his marriage doesn't contradict that. 213.199.128.149 10:54, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Homosexuality as a theme" section 

message: Just for future reference, in chronological order:
*The Bottomlands (1976)
*The Arsonist's Girl ("an unpleasant little story of love and madness....a slender volume")
*The Land Downstairs ("won a PEN award and...[sold] twelve thousand copies")
*Wonder Boys (unpublished)
--ShelfSkewed [Talk] 05:28, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grady Tripp's novels 

message: I know it's not kosher to edit one's own biography on Wikipedia, so I thought that it would be most appropriate for me to comment here on one of a number of errors in this entry. This one has been drawn to my attention repeatedly in recent weeks as various journalists have cited it, and this article, when interviewing me, or have relied on this article to attribute to me words or sentiments that I did not actually say or express.
For the record:
As far as I know, I have never said that my "desire is nothing less than annihilation of literary categories." I realize that the article does not attribute this quote to me directly--in fact as the footnote indicates, these are the words of Erik Spanberg in the Christian Science Monitor--but given the number of times that I have recently been asked to justify or defend this supposed desire, I think the entry could stand to be rewritten. In fact, if anyone is interested, I am perfectly happy to allow the literary categories to continue their existence unmolested; what I would like to see annihilated is not the categories but the bias against certain ones of them (e.g., sf, fantasy, mystery, nurse romance) and the lazy, unexamined reliance on stale labels and on received ideas about genre. In the unlikely event that I ever did express, at any time, the desire to see literary categories annihilated, I hereby repudiate it, and apologize to the categories for whatever hurt feelings I may have caused them.
I hope that I have not violated any of the sacred tenets of Wikipedia in posting under this page.
Michael Chabon 03:18, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Mr. Chabon just TPed his own page with a poorly photoshoped image which featured the bridge of the Star Ship Enterprise. Numskll 19:30, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Note from Michael Chabon

message: In the Works section: is it necessary to include ISBN numbers for all of Chabon's writings (especially those which have their own articles)?  I'm asking this because I've noticed that very few other author articles (and none of Wikipedia's featured articles on 20th-century authors) include ISBN #s for an author's works.  It seems to me that ISBN numbers muddy up this section and are not crucial; after all, they're no more important than, say, the exact day of release and the publisher.  If no one disagrees, I'll remove the #s from this section in a few days. -Hobbesy3 16:48, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with you. Although I've added a few ISBNs in the past, just because the other books in the article already had them, I think they are unsightly and have limited usefulness. All they are, really, are inventory-control numbers, which I don't see included in other types of articles. Does the article banana mention that the US cash-register code is 4011? I doubt it.--ShelfSkewed Talk 18:51, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: ISBNs

message: A few things are holding this back with regard to the GA criteria:
*Lead: too short, provide slightly more context and background, say something about what characterizes his writing the best or repetitive themes,etc. Perhaps use some of the stuff in Early years.
*Citing: Van Zorn and Chabon universe paragraphs have no citations - get from the books discussed?
*Put up one of those "Do you have a picture of this person?" tags in the infobox.
That's it and it's GA! --Meowist 03:04, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: GA Passed

message: I'm restoring the mention of his winning the Sidewise award.  I'll grant that it's not as significant as the Hugo or Nebula, but it isn't trivial.  It gets 11,100 Google hits when it's spelled correctly, even though it's only been around for one fourth as long as the Hugos and a third as long as the Nebulas.  All other winners have it mentioned on their web pages. Keith Lynch (talk) 00:15, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sidewise Award 

message: Nonessential external links removed from the article, listed here for future reference in case they can be incorporated as article material/citations:
* Audio interview with Chabon reporting on the 2008 Democratic National Convention for The New York Review of Books
* Interview with Michael Chabon from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
* "The Fourteen Skies of Michael Chabon", Great Books Guide.
* Transcript of interview with Ramona Koval, The Book Show, ABC Radio National December 5, 2007
--ShelfSkewed Talk 06:11, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
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