Michael Chabon, Jonathan Franzen, Tom Wolfe and Gore Vidal will all star in The Simpsons this Sunday at 8:00-8:30 p.m. ET/PT. For fans who can’t wait that long, here’s a sneak peak, courtesy of Spanish fan site Actualidad Simpson.

Say good-bye to MichaelChabon.com.

Since February 1999, Chabon has designed and maintained his own Web site by himself. Today, though, the author announced he was shutting it down.

“I’m in the first stages of shutting down my website at least in its current form,” Chabon said in an e-mail. “My wrists hurt and I’m bored with it.”

Chabon has been suffering from Repetitive Strain Injury for several months, which “makes typing a chore and clicking an agony,” he said on his Web site.

“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,” he said. “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.”

Chabon said the site was never intended for self-promotion “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.”

Some form of a schedule will probably remain, he said, either on his site or somewhere else. Many unpublished stories shall soon disappear too.

“Someday I might collect some of the longer pieces or columns in a book, but I have no plans to do so,” he said.

While by far the biggest change to Chabon’s online habits, it’s not the first time he’s disconnected himself in some way from the Web. Chabon took down a link to his personal e-mail address from an earlier version of the Web site shortly after the publication of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.

His wife, Ayelet Waldman, came closer to this latest move in February 2005 when she shut down her blog.

What his next plans are remain uncertain. In the meanwhile, Chabon directed visitors to this site, “where the amazing Nate Raymond maintains the freshest information at a low, low price.”

“I’m sorry. See you around.”

Finally, the date of Michael Chabon’s guest-appearance on The Simpsons has finally The Futon Critic been announced:

“When Homer forgets Moe’s birthday, Moe’s anger inspires Lisa to write about him for her school report. She finds a poetic side to Moe and helps him get published in ‘American Poetry Perspectives.’ However, when Moe is featured at a literary conference where he encounters celebrated authors Gore Vidal, Michael Chabon, Tom Wolfe and Jonathan Franzen, all guest-voicing as themselves he takes all the credit despite Lisa’s feelings in the all-new ‘Moe’N’A Lisa’ episode of THE SIMPSONS Sunday, Nov. 19 (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT).”

Brian K. Vaughan clearly likes The Escapists #4, in stores today

“I love this issue more than my wife,” Vaughan said in a forum posting.

Vaughan said “it’s all thanks to the art team,” Steve Rolston and Jason Alexander.

“If you’re not reading this book, what the hell is wrong with you?” he said.

In this issue, Max, Case, and Denny become increasingly irritable toward each other as a high-powered corporate lawyer moves in to yank their Escapist rights. Meanwhile, within the comic they’re making, the Escapist faces samurai-wielding female warriors, who have taken Luna Moth hostage.

The issue costs $2.99. For a preview, click here.

Sienna Miller apologized Friday for making disparaging comments about Pittsburgh in a Rolling Stone interview.

“Can you believe this is my life?” Miller says in the interview. “Will you pity me when you’re back in your funky New York apartment and I’m still in Pittsburgh? I need to get more glamorous films.”

In a statement issued by her publicist, Miller said her comments were taken out of context and that she was referring to how she had not had a chance fully explore the city due to the mostly night shooting schedule.

“What I have seen of it is beautiful. I came once before to visit The Andy Warhol Museum whilst researching a film and found both the city and its inhabitants warm and gracious,” she said.

Miller’s father, who lives about 85 miles north of Pittsburgh in Meadville, planned to show her around this weekend, she said.