Micahel Chabon To Write For Who?

[Australis]

I don't have any extra info for this, but I'm pretty excited about it.

Allyn Gibson said:

On a related note... The interesting writer rumor about season six is Michael Chabon. Yes, Wonder Boys, Cavalier & Clay, The Final Solution. That Michael Chabon.

As I mentioned in the same thread, I read an essay in his recent book 'Manhood foir Amateurs' about the love of Who he shares with his family. I couldn't find the essay on line, but I did find a couple of quotes.

Perhaps there is no perfect word for the kind of people I have raised my children to be: a word that encompasses obsessive scholarship, passionate curiosity, curatorial tenderness, and an irrepressible desire to join in the game, to inhabit in some manner—through writing, drawing, dressing up, or endless conversational riffing and Talmudic debate—the world of the endlessly inviting, endlessly inhabitable work of popular art. The closest I have ever come for myself is amateur, in all the best senses of the word: a lover; a devotee; a person driven by passion and obsession to do it—to explore the imaginary world—oneself. And if we must accept the inevitable connotation of hopeless ineptitude that amateur carries, then at least let us stipulate that we shall be hopeless and inept like Max Fischer, the hero of Wes Anderson’s Rushmore: in the most passionate, heedless, and whole-hearted way.

For in playing, or writing, or drawing, or simply talking oneself deep into the world of a popular artwork that invites the regard of the amateur, the fan, one is seeking above all to connect, not only with the world of the show, comic book, or film, but with the encircling, embracing metaworld of all those who love it as much as you do.

Each of us stands ready, at any moment, to talk Who, to riff and spin and sketch out new contours for the world we collectively inhabit, creating and endlessly recreating the fandom that is our family.

Maybe all families are a kind of fandom…. And maybe love, mortality, and loss, and all the children and mythologies and sorrows they engender, make passionate amateurs—nerds, geeks, and fanboys—of us all.

At the end of the article, the writer adds:

After thanking Chabon for his work as a geek ambassador, to which he responded “It’s my sacred duty,” I asked whether he thought he’d ever write a futuristic science fiction novel, or a fully secondary-world fantasy. Chabon responded:

I’m not sure. Maybe. I’ve thought about it, but I don’t have ideas for any at the moment…. Actually, I just discovered Iain M. Banks. Until I can do it that well, it’s probably not worth it.
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Wow. That's some high standards. But he is a Pulitzer Prize winner.

So if anyone has any extra info or thoughts, post them here.

Below are links to 2 articles that I drew this info from:

http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=58032

http://io9.com/5396327/our-geeky-hearts-are-bigger-on-the-inside-than-on-the-outside

ENJOY! The man's simply a great, great writer.

 

[23skidoo]

At this point I might normally say "I'll believe it when I see it."

But we said the same thing about Neil Gaiman, didn't we?

First Moorcock (maybe, for the novels), then Gaiman, now Chabon? If Moffat keeps bringing in big literary names, this could become a very interesting era of DW indeed!

Alex

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I don't have any extra info for this, but I'm pretty excited about it.

Allyn Gibson said:

On a related note... The interesting writer rumor about season six is Michael Chabon. Yes, Wonder Boys, Cavalier & Clay, The Final Solution. That Michael Chabon.

Here's where I got that rumor from. Which also leads to here. So, it's not definite. It's just a rumor. Moffat wants to work with Chabon. Chabon is a fan.

Still, Chabon writing Who would be huge.

 

[Australis]

Allyn, see if you can persuade your local library to get a copy of that book, the essay is really good. Damn, most of the essays are excellent.

 

[23skidoo]

Here's where I got that rumor from. Which also leads to here. So, it's not definite. It's just a rumor. Moffat wants to work with Chabon. Chabon is a fan.

And this is the exact same sort of scenario we were hearing with regards to Gaiman, so this could go in very interesting directions.

Even if we just have Moorcock and Gaiman, DW is doing something a lot of people, myself included, had wished Trek had done more of (certainly post-TOS) -- hiring big-name, established writers to do episodes, rather than over-reliance on staff writers. Although Moffat and his close writing associates will still have the lion's share of credits, one thing I will admit is an improvement over RTD is that there seems to be more of a concerted effort to bring in new voices, such as Richard Curtis and Toby Whithouse.

That doesn't guarantee it'll always be good Who, but it's still a step in the right direction. To RTD's credit, he did try to recruit JK Rowling to write an episode, which would have been very interesting indeed...

Alex

 

[Stevil2001]

You mean the "new voice" Toby Whithouse, who RTD hired to write "School Reunion"?