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This coming Tuesday, June 8th, at 7:00 pm Neil Gaiman will be returning to Columbia Teachers College. He will be reading with contributors from the new book, Stories. Those present will include Kurt Andersen, Jeffrey Ford, Joe Hill, Walter Mosley, Al Sarrantonio and, of course, Neil Gaiman. This event is not ticketed> It’s first come/first serve. The space holds approximately 600.
The anthology includes:
- “Blood” – Roddy Doyle
- “Fossil-Figures” – Joyce Carol Oates
- “Wildfire in Manhattan” – Joanne Harris
- “The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains” – Neil Gaiman
- “Unbelief” – Michael Marshall Smith
- “The Stars are Falling” – Joe R. Lansdale
- “Juvenal Nyx” – Walter Mosley
- “The Knife” – Richard Adams
- “Weights and Measures” – Jodi Picoult
- “Goblin Lake” – Michael Swanwick
- “Mallon and Guru” – Peter Straub
- “Catch and Release” – Lawrence Block
- “Polka Dots and Moonbeams” – Jeffrey Ford
- “Loser” – Chuck Palahniuk
- “Samantha’s Diary” – Diane Wynne Jones
- “Land of the Lost” – Stewart O’Nan
- “Leif in the Wind” – Gene Wolfe
- “Unwell” – Carolyn Parkhurst
- “A Life in Fictions” – Kat Howard
- “Let the Past Begin” – Jonathan Carroll
- “The Therapist” – Jeffery Deaver
- “Parallel Lines” – Tim Powers
- “The Cult of the Nose” – Al Sarrantonio
- “Human Intelligence” – Kurt Anderson
- “Stories” – Michael Moorcock
- “The Maiden Flight of McCauley’s Bellerophon” – Elizabeth Hand
- “The Devil on the Staircase” – Joe Hill
It’s happening at the Horace Mann Auditorium, Teachers College. Columbia University campus, New York City.
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Sheila Merritt put us onto this piece on Neil Gaiman that recently ran on CBS. We thought you’d enjoy it, so here it is:
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We wanted to alert you to the fact that Shelf-Life is running an online interview with Neil Gaiman about the role of contemporary vampires. We think it’s definitely worth a read.
“I think mostly what it has to do with is what vampires get to represent. Dracula was a great novel of sexual seduction, full of repeated sexual seduction and rape and sex. So it makes complete sense that your solid Victorian vampires were fundamentally evil,” says Gaiman. “And you can have that nice big stake hammered through them as a way of putting them to rest. After that, I think the next big, huge, cultural, ‘somebody’s just written a vampire story’ is probably Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot. Steve basically wanted to do Dracula again, only in a small town in Maine. At that point you got vampires still sort of representing the ‘other.’ Then Anne Rice wrote Interview with the Vampire, which as a teenager I thought was a rather drippy book. I have to say as a teenager who loved vampire fiction and wanted vampire fiction, I thought they all sort of sat around being miserable.”
You can read the complete interview here: Neil Gaiman
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Bestselling author Neil Gaiman and editor Stephen Jones will chat live on Thursday, January 15, at 1:00 PM (EST) at The Beyond. The main topic will be about the upcoming film adaptation of Gaiman’s book Coraline and Jones’s book Coraline: A Visual Companion (which chronicles the making of the movie). Listeners can call in and chat or just listen on phone by calling (347) 826-9684.
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Some very good news for those who’ve been waiting for the Subterranean Press two volume limited edition of George R. R. Martin’s A Feast for Crows to be published. They’ve long since approved everything, including printed-but-not-yet-bound copies of the books. Once the finished books are finished – likely in the next week – they’ll send off to have the slipcases manufactured. If all goes according to plan, they’ll be shipping finished copies of the books sometime in January.
The limited edition of Neil Gaiman’s newest, The Graveyard Book, is marching steadily toward publication. Subterranean has approved all of the interior and special art section proofs, and is awaiting the special custom marbled paper that the book will be bound in. They’ve been told it’s shipping to their printer from the UK this week. If that holds true, they should have finished books before the end of the year, and then will only need to wait on slipcases before shipping to customers.
