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Ongoing, Forthcoming, Rumored or Doomed

Signing offA Journey to the End of the Millennium A. B. YehoshuaYou Don't Love Me Yet Jonathan LethemContigency, Irony and Solidarity Richard RortyThe Complete Western Stories of Elmore LeonardThe Cossacks Leo TolstoyThe Awakening Primo LeviThe Adorno Reader Theodor AdornoOptic Nerve No. 10 Adrian TomineCollected Stories Raymond ChandlerA Year, with Swollen Appendices Brian EnoThe Year of Magical Thinking Joan DidionThe Blue Fairy Book Andrew LangThe Messianic Idea in Judaism Gershom ScholemSavage Shorthand Jerome CharynThe Lost Daniel MendelsohnTo the Gentiles Leslie FiedlerGo Down, Moses William FaulknerThe Defense Vladimir NabokovAnansi Boys Neil GaimanA Short History of Myth Karen ArmstrongGo Down, Moses William FaulknerTom Strong, Vol. 1 Alan MooreA Singular Modernity: Essay on the Ontology of the Present Frederick Jameson Drawn & Quarterly #3U.S.! (forthcoming) Chris BachelderU.S.! (forthcoming) Chris BachelderThe Pagoda in the Garden (forthcoming) Wendy LesserThe Virginia Quarterly Review Spring 2005A Harlot High and Low Honoré de BalzacThe Controversy of Zion • Geoffrey WheatcroftThe Rediscovery of Man Cordwainer SmithThe Disappointment Artist Jonathan LethemFrankenstein Mary ShelleyYou Are Here Katherine Harmon, ed.The Immediate Experience Robert WarshowThe Psychology of the Chess Player Reuben FineTwenty Years After Alexandre Dumas The Isaac Quartet Jerome Charyn

I have designed and maintained this website and its antecedent, by myself, since February 1999. The idea of it has never been to promote myself or my work but simply to publish writing that would otherwise have gone out of print and to inform anyone who cared about my reading and lecture appearances.

Okay, I guess that last part qualifies as self-promotion.

Lately I have been suffering from Repetitive Strain Injury that makes typing a chore and clicking an agony. As I have been spending less time online I have found that I’ve lost interest in the web as a whole, and in my site in particular. I’m tired of having to maintain www.michaelchabon.com, but I hate that it gets stale, and so quickly. Yet I don’t feel comfortable with or have any interest in getting somebody else to do it for me. So I’ve decided, not without regret, to take it down, a little at a time, starting with the posting of my monthly Details column.

I’ll probably keep some version of the schedule up, in some form, or see that the info it contains gets posted someplace else. Someday I might collect some of the longer pieces or columns in a book, but I have no plans to do so. In the meantime, you could always check out The Amazing Website of Kavalier & Clay, where the amazing Nate Raymond maintains the freshest information at a low, low price.

I’m sorry. See you around.