Works

I once e-mailed Michael Chabon asking him if he knew whether a checklist existed for all of his works and short stories. With a sigh of regret, he basically said that unfortunately he had not kept track of them. Thus, this is an attempt on my behalf to list out every story, novel, and article that Chabon has ever written.

The list is as close to being chronological as possible, though I sadly must admit that on many of these stories I was unable to find anything more than a year. If the stories and articles are reprinted, I’ve tried to make note of this, and I’ve also tried to make available any links leading to the stories on the Internet. I’ve also made available links to Amazon for any books.

Books (though not comic books) written or edited by Chabon are in bold. To the best of my ability, this list maintains the stories’ original publishing titles (Chabon has a nasty habit of changing them on his website).

If you know of a story that is not mentioned on this list or have more information about a particular story (such as the original source or date), e-mail me. I would be very grateful.

“Admirals.” The New Yorker, 9 Sept. 1987: 34-38. Reprinted in A Model World.

“Blumenthal on the Air.” Mademoiselle, 1987. Reprinted in A Model World.

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. Perennial Library, April 1988.

“The Little Knife.” The New Yorker, 4 April 1988: 28-30. Reprinted in A Model World.

“The Halloween Party.” The New Yorker, 26 Sept. 1988: 38-44. Reprinted in A Model World.

“Footloose in Tuscany.” Vogue, May 1989: 266.

“A Model World.” The New Yorker, 8 May 1989: 41-52. Reprinted in A Model World and Nothing but You: Love Stories from the New Yorker .

“More than Human.” Gentleman’s Quarterly, 1989. Reprinted in A Model World.

“Ocean Avenue.” The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 1989: 52-55. Reprinted in A Model World .

“Millionaires.” The New Yorker, 1 Jan. 1990: 32-40. Reprinted in A Model World.

“Smoke.” The New Yorker, 2 April 1990: 41-45. Reprinted in A Model World.

“The Lost World.” The New Yorker, 20 Aug. 1990: 33-38. Reprinted in A Model World.

“S ANGEL.” The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 1990: 46-53. Reprinted in A Model orld.

“It’s in the Cards.” New York Times Magazine, 21 July 1991: 10.

A Model World. Avon Books, March 1992.

  • “S ANGEL”
  • “Ocean Avenue”
  • “A Model World”
  • “Blumenthal on the Air”
  • “Smoke”
  • “Millionaires”
  • “The Little Knife”
  • “More Than Human”
  • “Admirals”
  • “The Halloween Party”
  • “The Lost World”

“Prague: Lost Era’s Last Survivor.” The New York Times, 26 Sept. 1993.

“Las Vegas: Glitz and Dust.” The New York Times, 13 Nov. 1994.

Wonder Boys. Random House, 14 March 1995.

“On John Cheever’s ‘The Swimmer’.” The Guardian, April 1995.

“Notes on the Fantastic Four.” Unproduced and unpublished film proposal, late 1995. Released on Chabon’s website, July 2005.

“Fever.” Swing, 1995. Reprinted in Stories of Love and Neuroses.

“Wrecked.” Swing, 1995.

“X-Men Proposal.” Unpublished. 17 July 1996.

Introduction. Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: Stories, by Ben Katchor. Little Brown & Co, 1 Sept. 1996.

“Disney of the Mind.” Phos4, 1996.

“In the Black Mill.” Playboy, June 1997. Reprinted in Werewolves in Their Youth; The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection (11th Annual Collection); and Lovecraft Unbound.

“That Was Me.” New Yorker, 16 June 1997: 90-96. Reprinted in Werewolves in Their Youth.

“The Harris Fetko Story.” Esquire, July 1997: 46-54. Reprinted in Werewolves in Their Youth.

“The Hand on My Shoulder.” Vogue, Oct. 1997: 379-81. Reprinted in I Married My Mother-In-Law, edited by Ilena Silverman.

“Guidebook to a Land of Ghosts.” Civilization, June/July 1997. Reprinted as “The Language of Lost History.” Harper’s, Oct. 1997: 32-33.

“Son of the Wolfman.” Harper’s Magazine, Dec. 1998: 71+. Reprinted in Werewolves in Their Youth.

Werewolves in Their Youth. Picador, 19 Jan. 1999.

  • “Werewolves in Their Youth”
  • “House Hunting”
  • “Son of the Wolfman”
  • “Green’s Book”
  • “Mrs. Box”
  • “Spikes”
  • “The Harris Fetko Story”
  • “That Was Me”
  • “In The Black Mill”

“Books to snack on.” Salon, 22 Nov. 1999.

Wonder Boys. Movie. Based on the novel by Michael Chabon. Paramount Pictures, 22 Feb. 2000.

“Talk delivered at the Nabokov Museum, St. Petersburg.” 1 June 2000.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Random House, 19 Sept. 2000.

  • Portions first printed as: “The Hofzinser Club.” New Yorker, July 19, 21, & 28, 1999, Vol. 75 Issues 19-21.
  • Portions reprinted in: Escape: Stories of Getting Away. Edited by Lena Lencek and Gideon Bosker. Marlowe & Company. June 2003.

“The Recipe for Life.” The Washington Book World, 2000. Reprinted in The Writing Life: Writers on How They Think and Work.

“House of Gold.” CBS. Unproduced. 2000.

Essay. Steranko: Arte Noir. By J. David Spurlock and Angel de la Calle. Vanguard Productions, 2001.

“Teaching Ike to Tap.” New York Times Magazine, 7 Jan. 2001: 16-18.

“Memoirs of a Pgh Adventure.” Talk delivered at Carnegie Music Hall, Pittsburgh, 25 March 2001.

“Maps and Legends.” Architectural Digest, April 2001: 46.

“The God of Dark Laughter.” New Yorker, 9 April 2001: 86. Reprinted in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection.

“A Fortress of One’s Own.” This Old House, May 2001: 108.

“Happy Birthday Bob: An Appreciation of Dylan at 60.” Rolling Stone, 7 June 2001: 48-52. With others.

Judge/Introductions. Prize Stories 2001: The O. Henry Awards. Anchor, 28 Aug. 2001.

  • Introduction to Dan Chaon’s “Big Me”

“The First Issue: Imagining How a Paper Was Born.” The New York Times, 14 Nov. 2001.

“Along the Frontage Road.” New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2001: 74. Reprinted in The Best American Short Stories 2002.

“The Return of the Amazing Cavalieri: From Untold Tales of Kavalier & Clay.” McSweeney’s 7. McSweeney’s Quarterly, 2001.

“The Mysteries of Berkeley.” Gourmet, March 2002: 80-82. Reprinted in Berkley: The Life and Spirit of a Remarkable Town by Kiran Singh (photos) and Ellen Weis (text), and My California: Journeys by Great Writers.

“Close Encounters.” Washington Post, 7 April 2002. Page BW08.

Introduction. Casting the Runes: And Other Ghost Stories, by M.R. James. Oxford University Press, Aug. 2002.

“The Wilderness of Childhood.” Talk delivered at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, 29 Sept. 2002.

Summerland. Miramax, 1 Oct. 2002.

“The First Chapter of Fountain City.” Unpublished. Released on Chabon’s website circa 2002.

“Garageland.” Unproduced television script. Released on Chabon’s website circa 2002.

McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales. Editor. Vintage Books, 25 March 2003.

  • Introduction
  • “The Martian Agent, A Planetary Romance”

“The Book You Have to Read.” Entertainment Weekly, 4 April 2003: 109.

The Final Solution: A Story of Detection. The Paris Review #166. Summer 2003. Reprinted in novella form, Nov. 2004.

“Unpublished Letter of Complaint to The New York Review of Books.” Unpublished. Released on Chabon’s website, Aug. 2003.

The Partly Cloudy Patriot (Audio Edition). Special Guest. Streeter, Katharine and Sarah Vowell. Audioworks, Oct. 2003.

“The Strange Case of Mr. Terrific and Doctor Nil.” JSA: All-Stars #7. DC Comics, Nov. 2003.

“Golems I Have Known.” Speech delivered at the Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall in Seattle, 13 Nov. 2003.

“The Lives They Lived: Books Left Unwritten.” New York Times Magazine, 28 Dec. 2003: 49. Reprinted as the afterward for Wonder When You’ll Miss Me, by Amanda Davis. Perrenial, March 2004.

Michael Chabon Presents: The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #1. Dark Horse Comics, 25 Feb. 2004. Reprinted in Michael Chabon Presents: The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist Vol. 1 TPB.

“An Untold Tale of Kavalier & Clay: Breakfast in the Wreck.” Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2004: 33-38.

“Dust & Daemons.” New York Review of Books, 25 March 2004: 25. Reprinted in Navigating the Golden Compass : Religion, Science and Daemonology in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials

“Solitude And the Fortresses Of Youth.” New York Times 13 April 2004: A25.

“Nanny Nation: What a fearful thing is the imagination of a teen.” San Francisco Chronicle 15 April 2004: B9.

“The Nova Comics Years.” McSweeney’s #13, May 2004.

“A Woman of Valor.” Alure, May 2004.

Michael Chabon Presents: The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #2. Dark Horse Comics, 21 April 2004. Reprinted in Michael Chabon Presents: The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist Vol. 1 TPB.

Spider-Man 2. Screen story. Sony Pictures/Columbia, 2004 June 29.

Michael Chabon Presents: The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #3. Dark Horse Comics, 14 July 2004. Reprinted in Michael Chabon Presents: The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist Vol. 2 TPB.

“Film: The Ten Best Comic-Book Adaptations.” Independent, 16 July 2004: 9.

“Keynote Speech 2004 Eisner Awards.” San Diego Comic Con 2004, 17 July 2004.

Future Dictionary of America. Contributer. McSweeney’s, Aug. 2004.

McSweeney’s Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories. Editor. Vintage Books, Nov. 2004.

  • Introduction

Michael Chabon Presents: The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #4. Dark Horse Comics, 20 Oct. 2004. Reprinted in Michael Chabon Presents: The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist Vol. 2 TPB.

“Inventing Sherlock Holmes.” New York Review of Books 10 Feb. 2005.

Michael Chabon Presents: The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #5. Dark Horse Comics, 23 Feb. 2005.

“The Game’s Afoot.” New York Review of Books, 24 Feb. 2005.

Preface. D’Aulaires’ Book of Norse Myths, by Ingri and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire. New York Review of Books, 10 July 2005.

“Jose Canseco, Hero.” The New York Times, 18 March 2005.

“Will Eisner and Jewish Identity.” The Comics Journal #267. Fantagraphic Books, 6 April 2005.

Michael Chabon Presents: The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #6. Dark Horse Comics, 20 April 2005.

Introduction. American Flagg (Definitive Collection HC), by Howard Chaykin. Image Comics/Dynamic Forces, 30 May 2005.

“On ‘The Mysteries of Pittsburgh’.” The New York Review of Books, 9 June 2005.

Michael Chabon Presents: The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #7. Dark Horse Comics, 13 July 2005.

  • “Arms and the Man I Sing.”

Introduction. Will Eisner: A Spirited Life, by Bob Andelman. M Press, 9 Sept. 2005.

The Best American Short Stories 2005. Editor. Houghton Mifflin, 5 Oct. 2005.

Monthly column. Details. Oct. 2005-Present.

Michael Chabon Presents: The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #8. Dark Horse Comics, 9 Nov. 2005.

“On Kong: A Conversation Among William Joyce, Maurice Sendak, and Michael Chabon.” Kong Unbound : The Cultural Impact, Pop Mythos, and Scientific Plausibility of a Cinematic Legend, edited by Karen Haber. Pocket, 15 Nov. 2005.

Gentlemen of the Road. The New York Times Magazine. 28 Jan. 28 to 6 May 2007. Reprinted in book form 6 Nov. 2007, by Del Rey.

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union. Random House, 1 May 2007.

  • Portions first printed as: “The King in Black.” Virginia Quarterly Review, Fall 2006: 56-81. Excerpt from The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, to be published May 2007.

Introduction. The Escapists (Hardcover Edition), by Brian K. Vaughan. Dark Horse Comics, 12 Dec. 2007.

“Hey, Louis Farrakhan and Richard Cohen: You Can’t Scare Me.” The Huffington Post, 15 January 2008.

“Primary Views.” With Ayelet Waldman. The San Francisco Chronicle, 3 February 2008.

“Obama vs. the Phobocracy.” The Washington Post, 4 February 2008.

“Secret Skin: An Essay on Unitard Theory.” The New Yorker, 10 March 2008.

Maps and Legends. McSweeney’s Books, 28 March 2008.

  • “Trickster in a Suit of Lights: Thoughts on the Modern Short Story”
  • “The Other James”
  • “Fan Fictions: On Sherlock Holmes”
  • “Maps and Legends”
  • “Ragnarok Boy”
  • “On Daemons and Dust”
  • “Kids’ Stuff”
  • “The Killer Hook: Howard Chaykin’s American Flagg!
  • “Dark Adventure: On Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
  • “Landsman of the Lost”
  • “Thoughts on the Death of Will Eisner”
  • “My Back Pages”
  • “Diving into the Wreck”
  • “The Recipe for Life”
  • “Imaginary Homelands”
  • “Golems I Have Known”

“In Priceland.” New York Review of Books, 1 May 2008.

“Obama & the Conquest of Denver.” New York Review of Books, 9 October 2008.

“Save Branch Libraries in Berkeley.” The Daily Californian, 20 October 2008.

Manhood for Amateurs. Harper, 6 October 2009.

“Tragic Magic: Reflections on Power Pop.” McSweeney’s No. 33, 19 January 2010.

Introduction. The Long Ships, by Frans Gunnar Bengtsson. NYRB Classics, 11 May 2010.