It’s been a while since Chabon wrote anything superhero related. These days, quasi-genre fiction seems to be more his thing.

But for those of you who got into reading Chabon because of a certain novel’s comic book ties, you might want to pick up Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy, which carries an introduction by Chabon. (The news was first reported by Artnet News and Fashion Week Daily.)

The book is being released in limited distribution as part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute in New York presents a summer-long show on the same subject. The show will feature around 70 ensembles and promises “to reveal how the superhero serves as the ultimate metaphor for fashion and its ability to empower and transform the human body.”

The show is scheduled to run May 7 to Sept. 1, 2008.

In case you missed it, Gentlemen of the Road, Chabon’s newest novel, hit stands this week. It collects the serial adventure stories first published in The New York Times Magazine earlier this year. It’s suggested retail price is $21.95. Go get it!

Again, apologies for the lack of recent updates. Chabon news has been hard to come by as of late, and I’ve been busy with life myself.

I thought, though, given all the headlines of late about the Democrats and fundraising, we might check in on how Chabon and Waldman are doing. As you may recall, in April, Chabon and Waldman endorsed presidential candidate Barack Obama. Their goal has been to raise $25,000 for the guy.

Where are they so far? Since then, they’ve raised $10,970 from 51 people for Obama, according to their outreach page.

And since April, Chabon has himself jumped into the donor game. Waldman had already donated $4,600, this site reported, but records at the time hadn’t shown any contributions from Chabon for 2007. Now, according to FEC records, Chabon has himself contributed $4,800, the maximum amount for both primary and general election cycles. The contributions are both dated April 28.

Michael Chabon says his first non-fiction book will feature a variety of his non-fiction writings on the subject of being a man in terms of being a son, a father and a husband.

“Not just the Details columns, also other of my non-fiction writing on the subject, shaped, and hopefully given some kind of coherent structure,” he said via e-mail. “Edited, in other words; first by me, then by my editor Jennifer Barth.”

The book is tentatively scheduled for spring 2009.

Chabon also said he has put a young adults novel on-hold.

“Just wasn’t working for me; I’ll get back to it eventually,” he said.

As for the Bay Area-based novel announced this week, Chabon said it “is to be for adults, but I don’t want to say anything more about it right now,” including the title.

We’ll see if he actually makes the real list, but right now people can vote on whether Michael Chabon should make Time’s list of 100 most influential people of the year.