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"An enthralling collection of nonfiction essays on a myriad of topics-- from art and artists to dreams, myths, and memories-- observed in #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman's probing, amusing, and distinctive style. An inquisitive observer, thoughtful commentator, and assiduous craftsm... Full description
Table of Contents:
- Some things I believe.
- Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming : the Reading Agency Lecture, 2013 ;
- Telling lies for a living...and why we do it : the Newbery Medal Speech, 2009 ;
- Four bookshops ;
- Three authors : on Lewis, Tolkien and Chesterton; the MythCon 35 Guest of Honor Speech ;
- The pornography of genre, or the genre of pornography ;
- Ghosts in the machines : some Hallowe'en thoughts ;
- Some reflections on myth (with several digressions onto gardening, comics and fairy tales) ;
- How dare you : on America, and writing about it ;
- All books have genders ;
- The PEN Awards and Charlie Hebdo ;
- What the [very bad swearword] is a children's book, anyway? The Zena Sutherland Lecture
- Some people I have known.
- These are not our faces ;
- Reflections : on Diana Wynne Jones ;
- Terry Pratchett : an appreciation ;
- On Dave McKean ;
- How to read Gene Wolfe ;
- Remembering Douglas Adams ;
- Harlan Ellison : The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World ;
- Banging the drum for Harlan Ellison ;
- On Stephen King, for the Sunday Times ;
- Geoff Notkin : meteorite man ;
- About Kim Newman, with notes on the creation and eventual dissolution of the Peace and Love Corporation ;
- Gumshoe : a book review ;
- SIMCITY ; Six to six
- Introductions and musings : science fiction.
- Fritz Leiber : the short stories ;
- Hothouse ;
- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 and what science fiction is and does ;
- Of time, and Gully Foyle : Alfred Bester and The Stars My Destination ;
- Samuel R. Delany and The Einstein Intersection ;
- On the fortieth anniversary of the Nebula Awards : a speech, 2005
- Films and movies and me.
- The Bride of Frankenstein ;
- MirrorMask : an introduction ;
- MirrrorMask : a Sundance diary ;
- The nature of the infection : some thoughts on Doctor Who
- On comics and films : 2006
- On comics and some of the people who make them.
- Good comics and tulips : a speech ;
- A speech to professionals contemplating alternative employment, given at PROCON, April 1997 ;
- "But what has that to do with Bacchus?" Eddie Campbell and Deadface ;
- Confessions : on Astro City and Kurt Busiek ;
- Batman : Cover to Cover ;
- Bone : an introduction, and some subsequent thoughts ;
- Jack Kirby : king of comics ;
- The Simon and Kirby Superheroes ;
- The spirit of seventy-five ;
- The Best of the Spirit ;
- Will Eisner : New York stories ;
- The keynote speech for the 2003 Eisner Awards ;
- 2004 Harvey Awards speech ;
- The Best American Comics, 2010
- Introductions and contradictions.
- Some strangeness in the proportion : the exquisite beauties of Edgar Allan Poe ;
- On The New Annnotated Dracula ;
- Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror and Fantasy ;
- From the days of future past : The Country of the Blind and Other Stories, by H.G. Wells ;
- Business as usual, during alterations : Information Doesn't Want to Be Free, by Cory Doctorow ;
- The mystery of G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown ;
- Concerning dreams and nightmares : the dream stories of H.P. Lovecraft ;
- On The 13 Clocks by James Thurber ;
- Votan and Other Novels by John James ;
- On Viriconium : some notes toward an introduction ;
- So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish : an introduction ;
- Dogsbody by Diana Wynne Jones ;
- Voice of the Fire by Alan Moore ;
- Art and Artifice by Jim Steinmeyer ;
- The Moth : an introduction
- Music and the people who make it.
- Hi, by the way : Tori Amos ;
- Curious wine : Tori Amos II ;
- Flood : Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition, They Might Be Giants ;
- Lou Reed, in memoriam : "The Soundrack to My Life" ;
- Waiting for the man : Lou Reed ;
- Afterword afterword : Evelyn Evelyn ;
- Who Killed Amanda Palmer
- On 'Stardust' and fairy tales.
- Once upon a time ;
- Several things about Charles Vess ;
- The King of Elfland's daughter, Lord Dunsany ;
- Lud-in-the-Mist ;
- The thing of it is : Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell ;
- On Richard Dadd's The Fairy-Feller's Master-Stroke
- Make good art.
- Make good art
- The view from the cheap seats : real things.
- The view from the cheap seats ;
- A wilderness of mirrors ;
- The Dresden dolls : Hallowe'en 2010 ;
- Eight views of Mount Fuji : Beloved Demons and Anthony Martignetti ;
- So many ways to die in Syria now : May 2014 ;
- A Slip of the Keyboard : Terry Pratchett.