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From the 5 October Independent: Anansi Boys is one of Neil Gaiman’s books for grown-ups, which means that it’s a lot less ruthless than the material he produces for children. Bad things happen ” natural deaths of parents, murder most foul, attacks by supernatural entities, rifts among families ” but are swiftly followed by the […]
Yet another placeholder for a clippings post. Sorry What Jessa said: WNYC’s Studio 360 has an audio interview (that’s what you were listening to at Penn Station the other day, Steve), and Nerve has a Mirrormask-based interview with Neil and Dave McKean. And the morning e-mail brought in this note from Susan Dunman: SF Site […]
From the October 3rd Metro: Neil Gaiman is such an accomplished and astonishing writer that putting his name on the front cover of a book is like printing money. The drawback of this, according to the 44-year-old native of Porchester, England, is that he now has to spend a great deal of time being his […]
Eden notes that there has been much ado about Mirrormask over at Boing Boing. The Harvard Crimson‘s Scoop Wasserstein posted an interview with Dave McKean about Mirrormask on September 30th. Wired‘s Jason Silverman also posted a McKean interview on September 29th Reviews of the movie have appeared numerous sources including Locus (which is actually a […]
From the October 2nd Daily News: It’s an event of mythical proportions.This month, best-selling author Neil Gaiman delivers two fantastical stories steeped in the sacred and surreal. Mirrormask,, a film written by Gaiman and directed by his long-time collaborator Dave McKean, arrived in theaters Friday. Made for just $4 million by the visually visceral Jim […]
About.com’s Contemporary Literature Site has a review of Anansi Boys, giving it a 4.5/5. Anansi Boys is a quick and terribly enjoyable book. Gaiman keeps things moving along, with far fewer digressions than those that crowded American Gods. But that book was more psychologically complex than this one, and more hangs on that tale than […]
MirrormaskBox Office Mojo has posted the estimated takes from this week’s box office: Mirrormask, playing on 18 screens, has brought in an estimated gross of $127,000, or an average of around $7000 per screen for the weekend. Actual grosses will be posted Monday. From the September 30th Salt Lake Tribune: “I wanted to build a […]
From the September 30th Christian Science Monitor: Neil Gaiman, best-selling author and cult phenomenon of fantasy literature, what are you reading? I’m three-quarters of the way through the new Gene Wolfe short-story collection, Starwater Strains. I think he’s probably the most interesting living American writer. You’ll get people like [book reviewer] Michael Dirda at the […]
From the October 1st Daily Telegraph ‘We do not really mean, we do not really mean what we say,” is how the Ashanti start their stories about Anansi. “It begins, as most things begin, with a song,” is Neil Gaiman’s preferred formula. Not that it matters, since, as Gaiman points out, all songs are really […]
From the October 1st Toronto Star: Neil Gaiman tells us the most frequently asked questions, and his answers, from his current book tour: Q: So what are you working on right now? A: Just the tour, but when I find the time I also have to write the introduction to the collected edition of Will […]