Laura Miller’s review of American Gods is online at http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/06/22/gaiman/

Hand, Elizabeth, “Down-and-out deities”, The Village Voice, 26 June 2001, p. 121 A Shaggy-God Story: AMERICAN GODS by Neil Gaiman, William Morrow, $26, 465 pp. In the late 1980s and early ’90s, British writer Neil Gaiman helped reinvent the entire comics industry. Along with those other classics of postmodern apocalypse, Alan Moore’s Watchmen and Frank […]

Hannan Rimmels, Beth, A Melting Pot of Genres in U.S. Tale, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 22 June 2001, p. 22 Author Neil Gaiman keeps unusual company: angels, Lucifer, old gods, fairies, among others. His human friends are pretty interesting, too, such as Tori Amos, Penn & Teller, Stephen King, Alice Cooper, just to name a few. Then […]

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Dirda, Michael “AMERICAN GODS”, The Washington Post, 24 June 2001, T15. AMERICAN GODS, by Neil Gaiman, Morrow. 465 pp. $26 At least since sailors of late antiquity heard a voice crying “The Great Pan is dead!,” writers have wondered about the fate of the gods. Did Zeus and the Roman Pantheon and the children of […]

As usual, if you need for me to remove this article, please email. Thanks. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 6/24/2001, F. 9IT’S OLD GODS VS. NEW GODS IN STORY THAT’S MORE THAN JUST AN ALLEGORYJ. Stephen Bolhafner America is not a good land for gods. Forgotten and abandoned by their followers, they eke out an existence on […]

Toole, Douglas, “Gaiman draws 300 to book signing in Savoy”, The News-Gazette, 23 June 2001,p.B-8 Neil Gaiman says he would have preferred traveling across America by train to promote his latest book, “American Gods.” But his publisher, William Morrow, prefers a fast-paced schedule, and fast- paced is what Gaiman is getting. Often he does two […]

Morel, D.J.,Englishman evokes small-town Midwest, The Seattle Times, 22 June 2001, H20 Neil Gaiman could have chosen New York or San Francisco or Los Angeles as the epicenter for his new novel, “American Gods.” The author who made the London sewer system famous in “Neverwhere” could have reveled in the meaty pickings offered by American […]