Talk:Tales of the City

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[edit] Pacific Sun

Isn't the Pacific Sun still around? http://www.pacificsun.com/

I've read it from time to time when i'm in Marin.

[edit] (trans-)genders

I'm finding the construction (trans-)genders really clumsy - I've changed it to "genders and transgenders". It's a purely aesthetic change, so if you find it politically or personally uncomfortable, please feel free to change it back! (Incidentally, ouch. I'm half-way through the omnibus edition, and wish there had been a spoiler template on this page. I've added one.) Squeezeweasel 00:00, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] POV language, lack of sourcing

The article contained the following breathy, unsourced statement: "This rich tapestry of storytelling with a keen eye on the socio-sexual climate of the era has often been compared to the writings of Honoré de Balzac." The "rich tapestry" and "keen eye" business is subjective and POV. As well, this claim is unsourced. How many times has this been compared to Balzac? Where? By whom? I've toned down this flowerly POV material and added a lack of sourcing tag. 209.179.168.50 05:57, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

I am translating this text into German - and registered the comparison with Balzac. A research in the German Web brought the result (via various readers reviews) , that it seems the journal "Hamburger Abendblatt" has called Maupin the "Balzac of our time". In the online-archive of the journal I did not find any evidence of this quotation. --82.194.155.135 (talk) 21:23, 28 November 2007 (UTC) - (de:Benutzer:Silmanja)

And at the homepage of Armistead Maupin I found the following quotation from a review: It’s the novel as social history, an aesthetic reminiscent of Balzac.” (Los Angeles Times) (de:Benutzer:Silmanja)--82.194.155.135 (talk) 21:33, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

The review noted above is for Michael Tolliver Lives and the phrase refers to that book; as it isn't technically a Tales book, I don't think it should be used as a reference to the Balzac thing in this article. — TAnthony^Talk 00:48, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

I agree --82.194.155.135 (talk) 16:12, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

I took out an entire paragraph stating that Tales originated as The Serial in the Pacific Sun. Cyra McFadden is in fact the author of The Serial: A Year in the Life of Marin County, which did in fact begin in the Pacific Sun, but it did not evolve into Tales as the author of that paragraph stated. The paragraph also implied that Maupin and McFadden are the same person, which is an egregious misstatement of fact. (Jdearnray (talk) 04:23, 2 June 2008 (UTC))