The Sandman read along podcast
The September edition of Explorations includes a brief review of Anansi Boys and a very useful reference page with a brief bio and links to what’s currently in print in the States. The Union Square signing starts at 6:00pm on the 20th. I can’t even guess when we should start queuing, and have not been […]
From the September 8th issue of Time Out New York: Scared silly Despite his penchant for dark themes, Neil Gaiman has never shied away from levity. His last novel, 2001’s phantasmagoric American Gods, was filled with subtle jokes. But in Anansi Boys, due out September 20th, even the funeral scene is studded with one-liners. “I […]
Neil will be in Vancouver, BC on October 6th for his Anansi Boys promotional tour! Tickets are on sale now! I’ve already got my tickets ordered — see you there! Edit: Here’s the full information, from Neil’s Journal:7:00 PM PDTVANCOUVER, CANADA(In Connection with the Vancouver International Writers Festival)Magee Secondary School6360 Maple StreetVancouver, British Columbia604-681-6330 If […]
Upon entering library school, every student gets a subscription to Unshelved. I am kidding, but they should. Although as long as you’ve worked in any customer service capacity, the strip resonates. Anyway, as a long time reader, I was really pleased to see this as their second Sunday full color ‘Book Club’ feature. So without […]
Green Man Review reviews Anansi Boys
Lisa Snellings-Clark is calling for submissions for Tiny Stories, a collection of 100-word short stories.
Goodbye, twenty minutes of work. And this wasn’t even supposed to be a real update to start with. So quickly, Mirrormask won a Bank of Scotland Herald Angel at the Edinburgh International Film Festival; if you’re interested in the CBC Studio One Book Club event on October 6th, you may also want to check check […]
In no particular order… Beowulf: Hollywood Reporter Chicago Tribune E!Online Independent Fangoria Comic-Con 2005 Video Blog: Michael Polis First Amendment Project: Red Herring Associated Press ZDnet Guardian Daytona Beach News Journal Auctionbytes Mirrormask: New York Daily News Empire (McKean interview, also on Signal to Noise) Time Out UK (There’s also a short article in the […]
It works! Hurrah! Eden noted that Glenn McDonald’s review of the Mirrormask Film Script had been posted to PopMatters earlier in the week. Yes, you should have been asleep. From the July 29th Rocky Mountain News: MirrormaskBy Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean (William Morrow, $34.95).Grade: A For several years, author Neil Gaiman and artist Dave […]
Kit has posted the Anansi Boys reading from the Sydney Kinokuniya bookstore on his weblog, Poison to the Mind. Again, the file is in mp3 format. So now we have a bit of Chapter 3 and of Chapter 5. The fun lies in trying to determine what lies between.