Editing Michael Chabon (section)

===''Manhood for Amateurs'' and ''Telegraph Avenue''===
In May 2007, Chabon said that he was working on a young-adult novel with "some fantastic content."<ref name="kirsch">{{cite magazine | url = https://ew.com/article/2007/05/09/michael-chabon-translates-genres-yiddish/ |date = May 4, 2007 | title = The New Adventures of Michael Chabon | last = Kirschling | first = Gregory |magazine= [[Entertainment Weekly]] | access-date = July 4, 2009}}</ref> A month later, the author said he had put plans for the young-adult book on hold,<ref>{{cite web|last=Raymond |first=Nate |title=More Details on Non-fiction Book |url=http://www.sugarbombs.com/kavalier/?p=56 |date=June 5, 2007 |work=The Amazing Website of Kavalier & Clay |access-date=July 2, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718182524/http://www.sugarbombs.com/kavalier/?p=56 |archive-date=July 18, 2011 |df=mdy }}</ref> and instead had signed a two-book deal with [[HarperCollins]].

The first, a book-length work of non-fiction called ''[[Manhood for Amateurs|Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son]]'', was published in spring 2009 (2010 in Europe); the work discusses "being a man in all its complexity—a son, a father, a husband."<ref>{{cite web
 |last=Thornton 
 |first=Matthew 
 |title=Chabon Signs Again with HC 
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 |date=June 1, 2007 
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}}</ref> The collection was nominated for a 2010 Northern California Book Award in the Creative Nonfiction category.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/05/RVPK1CB26T.DTL | title=2010 Northern California Book Award Nominees | date=March 7, 2010 | work=The San Francisco Chronicle}}</ref>  This was Chabon's second published collection of essays and non-fiction. [[McSweeney's]] published ''[[Maps and Legends]]'', a collection of Chabon's literary essays, on May 1, 2008.<ref>{{cite book |title= Maps and Legends (Hardcover)|date= c. 2009|isbn= 978-1932416893|last1= Chabon|first1= Michael|publisher= McSweeney's Books}}</ref> Proceeds from the book benefited [[826 National]].<ref>{{cite web|title= Michael Chabon's New Book Benefits 826 National!|url= http://www.826national.org/article/118/michael-chabons-new-book-benefits-826-national|date= May 20, 2008|publisher= [[826 National]]|access-date= July 2, 2009|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090530154545/http://www.826national.org/article/118/michael-chabons-new-book-benefits-826-national|archive-date= May 30, 2009|df= mdy-all}}</ref> Also in 2008, Chabon received the [[Helmerich Award|Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award]],  presented annually by the [[Tulsa City-County Library|Tulsa (Oklahoma) Library Trust]].

During a 2007 interview with the ''Washington Post'', Chabon discussed his second book under the contract, saying, "I would like it to be set in the present day and feel right now the urge to do something more mainstream than my recent work has been." During a Q&A session in January 2009, Chabon added that he was writing a "naturalistic" novel about two families in Berkeley.<ref>{{cite news|last=Raymond |first=Nate |title=Current Projects: Untitled Bay Area Novel |work=The Amazing Website of Kavalier & Clay |date=n.d. |url=http://www.sugarbombs.com/kavalier/?page_id=10 |access-date=September 2, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100426022639/http://www.sugarbombs.com/kavalier/?page_id=10 |archive-date=April 26, 2010 |df=mdy }}</ref> In a March 2010 interview with the ''Guardian'' newspaper, Chabon added that "So far there's no overtly genre content: it's set in the present day and has no alternate reality or anything like that."<ref name="guardian.co.uk"/>

''[[Telegraph Avenue (novel)|Telegraph Avenue]]'', adapted from an idea for a TV series pilot that Chabon was asked to write in 1999, is a [[social novel]] set on the borders between Oakland and Berkeley in the summer of 2004 that sees a "large cast of characters grapple with infidelity, fatherhood, crooked politicians, racism, nostalgia and buried secrets."<ref name="sfgate.com">{{cite news|first=Meredith |last=May |url=http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Michael-Chabon-talks-of-Telegraph-Avenue-3848065.php |title=Michael Chabon talks of 'Telegraph Avenue' |newspaper=SFGate |date=September 7, 2012 |access-date=May 5, 2014}}</ref> Chabon said upon publication in an interview with the ''San Francisco Chronicle'' that the novel concerns "the possibility and impossibility of creating shared community spaces that attempt to transcend the limits imposed on us by our backgrounds, heritage and history."<ref name="sfgate.com"/> Five years in gestation, ''Telegraph Avenue'' had a difficult birth, Chabon telling the ''[[The Guardian|Guardian]]'' newspaper, "I got two years into the novel and got completely stymied and felt like it was an utter flop.... I had to start all over again, keeping the characters but reinventing the story completely and leaving behind almost every element."<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/sep/09/michael-chabon-telegraph-avenue-interview | location=London | work=The Guardian | first=Killian | last=Fox | title=Michael Chabon: 'Two years into writing this I felt like it was an utter flop' | date=September 9, 2012}}</ref> After starting out with literary realism with his first two novels and moving into genre-fiction experiments from ''The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay'' onward, Chabon feels that ''Telegraph Avenue'' is a significant "unification" of his earlier and later styles, declaring in an interview, "I could do whatever I wanted to do in this book and it would be OK even if it verged on crime fiction, even if it verged on magic realism, even if it verged on martial arts fiction.... I was open to all of that and yet I didn't have to repudiate or steer away from the naturalistic story about two families living their everyday lives and coping with pregnancy and birth and adultery and business failure and all the issues that might go into making a novel written in the genre of mainstream quote-unquote realistic fiction, that that was another genre for me now and I felt free to mix them all in a sense."<ref>{{cite news |last= Talbott|first= Chris |title= Chabon ties it all together in 'Telegraph Avenue'|url=https://www.boston.com/ae/music/2012/12/13/chabon-ties-all-together-telegraph-avenue/Y5S9oJHbsC8fllU1CigndM/story.html|date= December 13, 2012 |work= Boston Globe|access-date=October 13, 2013
}}</ref> The novel has been optioned by film producer [[Scott Rudin]] (who previously optioned and produced ''[[Wonder Boys]]''), and [[Cameron Crowe]] is adapting the novel into a screenplay, according to Chabon.<ref name="sfgate.com"/>

In a public lecture and reading of the novel in Oakland, California, Chabon listed creative influences as broad as [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]], [[Robert Altman]], and [[William Faulkner]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Johnson|first=Shoshone|title=Michael Chabon Plays God|url=http://oaklandlocal.com/2013/10/michael-chabon-plays-god-video/|newspaper=Oakland Local|access-date=December 19, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180814115224/http://oaklandlocal.com/2013/10/michael-chabon-plays-god-video/|archive-date=August 14, 2018|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>