The Sandman read along podcast
NOTE: As one would expect from a reading group guide, the following contains SPOILERS. So if you are trying to avoid those for Anansi Boys, please skip over this entry. Thanks! From the November 27th Atlanta Journal-Constitution “Reading Room”: Fat Charlie Nancy, the utterly self-conscious central figure in Neil Gaiman’s feisty new novel, Anansi Boys, […]
Dogmatika has posted a ‘review’ of the November 16th Belfast event. Meanwhile, I have only received two reports – so many thanks to Melora98, who went to the Naperville, Illinois signing, and and JediTigger, who went to the signing in Charlotte, North Carolina. If anyone else has sent me information over the past few months […]
Feature Independent on Sunday From the November 13th Independent on Sunday: A tiny girl with pink socks and pink glasses rearranges her mane of bright pink hair. The seven-foot beardo whispers to his short companion in the Stetson hat. A little old lady offers a girl in leopardskin a sweetie, and on the other […]
Anansi Boys Review – Houston Chronicle From the October 28th Houston Chronicle: There are certain books writers turn to for inspiration. Joseph Campbell’s Hero With a Thousand Faces garnered admirers (George Lucas being the most famous) who started tapping into age-old plots rather than plowing new narrative ground. Because of Campbell writers started seeing the […]
Stardust Film News From the October 25th Daily Variety:Paramount is in final negotiations with Brit filmmaker Matthew Vaughn (Layer Cake) to direct and produce his adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s adult fairy tale Stardust. Vaughn penned the script with writing partner Jane Goldman. Gaiman’s novel, first published in 1997 as Stardust: Being a Romance Within the […]
From Blair Marnell’s All The Rage column:Neil Gaiman has been writing professionally for over twenty years, with a laundry list of hit novels and comics including, Sandman, Death: The High Cost of Living, The Books of Magic, Good Omens, and American Gods. His latest novel, Anansi Boys has recently been released to great fanfare, while […]
Coraline selected for Book Club Coraline has been chosen for the Mayor’s Book Club by Springfield, Illinois Mayor Tim Davlin. The Lincoln Library has more information on the program on their website, and will have “book chats” at their branches on Wednesday, November 9, 2005, and Monday, November 14, 2005. The State Journal-Register will be […]
Mirrormask Review – Harvard Independent From the October 20th Harvard Independent:The beauty and appeal of fantasy is that it doesn’t have to make sense. The things you see in a fantasy world do not have to have exact allegorical or symbolic equivalents in the “real” world. Sometimes, fantasy worlds just run away from their creators, […]
Coraline Film News From the October 21st Hollywood Reporter:Dakota Fanning has signed on to voice the title character in Laika Entertainment’s animated feature Coraline. Henry Selick (Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach) is writing and directing the film, based on the best-selling novel by Neil Gaiman. The story centers on […]
This piece accompanied the debut of Anansi Boys onto the New York Times bestseller charts this Sunday: In the 1990’s the British novelist Neil Gaiman was among the best comic book writers alive. (Norman Mailer said of his Sandman series, “Along with all else, ‘Sandman’ is a comic strip for intellectuals, and I can say […]