Primer: Neil Gaiman, Storyteller. Here’s the thing about Neil Gaiman-- he’s a great writer, but an even better storyteller. It's not a skill-mix that all writers have, but it's one that Gaiman has perfected; the ability to tell a tale, spin a yarn, weave a story no matter the place, the time or the medium. Which is not to say that it's effortless--a lot of work goes into his projects to be sure--but he often makes them feel effortless. He taps into that ancient ritual of mankind-- telling one another stories-- whether they be legends or myths or fairy tales.
It can be a ghost story around the campfire or a folk tale warning you not to go into the wood. Gaiman has written for comics, novels, television, and film. His writing has appeared in anthologies, music programs, liner notes, and more. He is as adept at writing a story as he is at telling one live, in front of an audience. Here’s the thing about Neil Gaiman-- he’s a great writer, but an even better storyteller.
Sandman American Gods and Anansi Boys Mr. Es • Index page. On the Shelf: Neil Gaiman « A.K. Anderson | Science Fiction and Fantasy Author. Do you remember the book that made you fall in love with reading? Can you remember when you stopped struggling to understand the words and started caring about the story? Neil Gaiman will always hold a special place in my heart, because his book Odd and the Frost Giants was that book for Brett’s son. A ten-year-old boy thought reading was boring until he discovered Odd. I’m forever grateful. The funny thing is, Odd was on my shelf because Neil is on my shelf.
How I Found Him Though I didn’t know it at the time, the first thing I’ve ever read of Gaiman’s was a short story about a Troll in Fantasy Magazine back in high school or college. The first book I read of Gaiman’s as an adult was Good Omens, the book he co-authored with Terry Pratchett. Neil Gaiman gets an “on the shelf” post because I’ve since devoured everything and anything I can find. Why I Love Reading His Work The little twists of the macabre, the shivers up the spine, the wry humor. Gaiman’s work is always a complete escape. Neil Gaiman. Kyle Cassidy's Image Stream | Spent the weekend at Castle Gaiman relaxing... Neil Gaiman - Another Important Question of the Day Answered.
Quote of the Day: Neil Gaiman on Mistakes. How We Would Cast a Neil Gaiman Biopic. Click to enlarge Neil Gaiman’s finest moment in life. Let’s pretend that a biopic of Neil Gaiman’s life is going to be made. It won’t really, at least as far as we know. But it kind of should be, don’t you think? Something tasteful, somewhat metafictional, possibly titled The Dream King? We think we know who would be perfect for the role of Neil Himself, Amanda Palmer, and select others. Benedict Cumberbatch as Young Neil Gaiman In our biopic, Neil Gaiman can’t possibly be played by just one actor. Alan Rickman as Older Neil Gaiman Alan Rickman would play Neil Gaiman as he is now (wigs and Snape make-up handy) and, perhaps, as he is in the decades to come.
Just because this is a biopic doesn’t mean it has to be 100% accurate. Zach Galifianakis as Harlan Ellison If you’ve seen the Harlan Ellison documentary Dreams With Sharp Teeth then you know Gaiman is good buddies with Ellison. Bryce Dallas Howard as Tori Amos Amanda Palmer as Amanda Palmer Chime in below with your own ideas! Neil Gaiman Addresses the University of the Arts Class of 2012. Neil Gaiman Shares His Reading Habits.
Neil Gaiman. The Sweeper of Dreams by Neil Gaiman. Neil Gaiman – Harlequin Valentine. Neil Gaiman’s Free Short Stories and New Year’s Wishes. AMERICAN GODS, ALL SORTS, PLUS ME, COMPARING REVISING TO INEPT TEENAGE SEX. YEP. « GLITTERING SCRIVENER. So, as I said, I have things to say about the Town Hall/University Bookstore event I did with Neil Gaiman in Seattle on June 26. Neil talked about it on his blog days ago, because he is better than I am. Here is a photo from said event, taken by my friend Victoria Kieburtz, who was in the audience. I suspect, from the look on my face, that this is midway through Neil giving a speech about turning off one’s cellphone, even if you are using it as a camera and have forgotten that it is in fact a phone, even if you are the sort of person who never ever gets a call.
Because, you will get a call. And then people will want you to die. You yourself will want to die. More about that in a moment. And it is significant that when I just attempted to type “comma” I typed “condom” instead. Hell. Stay with me. This is so true of revising. *dark look* Or, you know, if you’re the girl, you’re sometimes looking wild-eyed at the whole thing, thinking Dear God, I Have No Idea. Wow. Okay. There was confusion. Dojo Summer Sessions: Neil Gaiman's Sage Advice. A brief intro for those who have been a) living under a rock, b) out pounding on rocks (hey, most of my friends are geologists, so it's distinctly possible) or c) brand new to the cantina: Neil Gaiman is the writer I place at the head of my personal pantheon of writers. He gives outstanding writerly advice, which writers of fantasy and literary fiction and even non-fiction science stuff shall find very useful indeed.
And he was at Town Hall Seattle on Sunday night, wherein much wisdom was shared and laughter flowed freely. I hereby pass along his wisdom, and maybe a few of the laughs. Writers get this impossible question, "Where do you get your ideas? " Here's where the idea for American Gods came from: "And it was a scene, I didn't know what it meant, which is often the best place to start any story, is with something that you don't actually understand.
" Or perhaps your story will come from somewhere else. "Imaginary things are often the most powerful. " You know that. "And then, write. Videos posted by Barnes & Noble: Neil Gaiman: Meet the Writers [HD] Neil Gaiman Interview on American Gods on Neil Gaiman Live Interview on June 21st at 4pm. The Hot Seat: Neil Gaiman - Arts + Culture - Time Out New York. Neil-gaiman-on-SFXMag-twitter-041111.pdf - Powered by Google Docs. Neil Gaiman - "Instructions" Locus Online: Neil Gaiman Sainthood. Neil Gaiman One Step Closer to Sainthood by L. Ron Creepweans VATICAN CITY - Today the Roman Curia announced that the beatification of Neil Gaiman had been completed, putting the writer one step closer to the official recognition of his sainthood. These steps were carried out despite the fact that Gaiman himself has repeatedly denied being a saint, pointing out that he was not Catholic, not really religious and, most importantly, not dead.
"Really, I'm not dead," said Gaiman when reached at his home. However, Vatican spokesman Cardinal Bertoli insisted that Gaiman had met the church's stringent requirement of three miracles necessary for sainthood. Bertoli noted that the second miracle involved a girl in Los Angeles who had been cured of her terminal cancer after a copy of Volume 9 of The Collected Sandman (The Kindly Ones) had been laid against her brow. "Truly the Holy Ghost works though the Venerable Gaiman's hands. " "I do wish they would just drop this whole saint thing," said Gaiman. Death, Desire, Fury, and DelIrium: Feminism in the Worlds of Neil Gaiman. Neil Gaiman Visual Bibliography. Tongari: a post not about basara!! the world is ending.
Actually I am 100% sure someone else has not only done a Sandman/Inception crossover but dunnit far more eloquently (I got tired after page 4, re-read it and said WAIT WHAT IS THIS EVEN ABOUT) Spoilers for Inception (well.. everything) and Sandman books 9 and 10 (although you have no excuse for not reading them) If you haven't read Sandman or if you're like, why is Dream's hair white... there is no real need to understand but do read the whole thing when you can.
I'm not the biggest Gaiman fan but I really, really, really love the Sandman series, the writing is somehow more touching than what I read in his novels. It was a huge influence and also heartrendingly beautiful as a story about this.. anthropomorphic personification whom you feel you should dislike but find yourself rooting for by the end. Anyway this (piece of tribute nonsense) is pretty bad and sorry if it doesn't make sense. I just.. wanted to stop drawing after page 4. (Personally I like the last pages the most though) Spring Dance Festival. Jamaica Anansi Stories Index. Sacred Texts Africa Music transcribed by HELEN ROBERTS Jump to Index Start Reading This classic of Jamaican folklore was collected by Martha Warren Beckwith, whose translation of the Hawaiian Creation epic, the Kumulipo, is also at sacred-texts. Beckwith studied under the famous ethnographer Franz Boas, who also encouraged the pioneering Afro-Caribbean ethnographic field work of Zora Neale Huston.
Jamaica Anansi Stories includes folklore, transcriptions of folk music, and a large collection of riddles, all cross-referenced with folklore studies from other cultures. The transcription of Jamaican patois in these texts may be jarring to modern sensibilities, and occasionally impenetrable. The trickster Anansi, originally a West African spider-god, lives on in these tales. Title Page Contents. Preface. Neil Gaiman | Books | Primer. Primer is The A.V. Club’s ongoing series of beginners’ guides to pop culture’s most notable subjects: filmmakers, music styles, literary genres, and whatever else interests us—and hopefully you. This installment: bestselling fantasy author Neil Gaiman, whose writing has run the gamut from comics to novels to short stories to screenplays to poetry to just about anything else within the reach of his imagination. Neil Gaiman 101 Neil Gaiman’s signature work, the 75-issue series The Sandman, published by DC’s Vertigo line from 1989 to 1996, doubles as the heart of Gaiman’s work—a sourcebook for the themes that would resurface throughout his career—and a key title in the history of modern comics.
That fatalism is especially true of two spin-off miniseries Gaiman wrote about Death, Dream’s irrepressibly fatal sister. During Gaiman’s Sandman run, he occasionally guest-wrote various Vertigo titles, penning stories later collected in the trade paperback Midnight Days. Intermediate Work Advanced. Fuck yeah, neil fucking gaiman. Topic_movies. In “The New Mother,” a children’s story published by Lucy Clifford in 1882, two previously well-behaved little girls turn so bad—dousing the fire and breaking the clock and dancing on the butter—that their mother is forced to go away, and a new mother, a demon with two glass eyes and a horrible wooden tail, comes to take her place.
At the story’s end, the girls flee to the forest to live; they miss their mother terribly and long in vain for the chance to redeem themselves. Sometimes, at night, they sneak back to their old cottage, where through the window they can see the glint of the new mother’s glass eyes. Gothic horror was thoroughly out of fashion in children’s literature when, in the early nineteen-nineties, the writer Neil Gaiman began to work on “Coraline,” a book aimed at “middle readers”—aged nine to twelve—in which he reimagined Clifford’s demon as “the other mother,” an evil and cunning anti-creator who threatens to destroy his young protagonist.
Home. Only the gods are real. It goes without saying that all of the people, living, dead, and otherwise in this story are fictional or used in a fictional context. Only the gods are real. --From the Caveat, and Warning for Travelers from American Gods by Neil Gaiman Hi! If this is your first visit to this site, please read this brief introduction. If you're here, you've probably read American Gods, and realize just what a large role mythology plays in the story. I really liked American Gods (as I do all of Neil's works) so I decided to do a little bit of research, and I was just amazed by how much more interesting the book was when I realized just how on the mark he was with his mythology. (And I was equally amazed by how little I actually knew about mythology!) And, just to keep my ego up, I'd like to share that on his online journal, Neil Gaiman said "What an excellent site", in regards to this site ^_^ (November 23, 2002.)
That said, I would like to add my own two-part caveat: 1. Last updated: 10/01/2005. Neil Gaiman. Neil Gaiman: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle. Article. @neilhimself's (Neil Gaiman) most favourited tweets. Neil Gaiman’s MouseCircus.com | The Graveyard Book Video Tour Re. Www.neilgaiman.com/mediafiles/exclusive/shortstories/emerald.pdf.