The view from the cheap seats : selected nonfiction

The view from the cheap seats : selected nonfiction /

More than sixty pieces exploring a broad range of interests and topics, including (but not limited to): authors past and present; music; storytelling; comics; bookshops; travel; fairy tales; America; inspiration; libraries; ghosts; and the title piece, at turns touching and self-deprecating, which r...

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Main Author: Gaiman, Neil (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Gaiman, Neil.
Popular culture.
Essays.
Creative nonfiction.
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Bride of Frankenstein
  • MirrorMask: an introduction
  • MirrorMask: a Sundance diary
  • The nature of the infection: some thoughts on Doctor Who
  • On comics and films: 2006
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 Soundtrack to My Life"
  • Waiting for the man: Lou Reed
  • Afterword afterword: Evelyn Evelyn
  • Who Killed Amanda Palmer
  • 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.

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