The View from the Cheap Seats, (Paperback)

from mstrust

A collection of what must be every speech and book introduction Gaiman has ever written, along with a few interviews and short articles. At just over 500 pages, there are speeches about bookstores, myths and comic books. He visits Stephen King at home and interviews Lou Reed, spends an entire nig...

from PDCRead

Up until now, Neil Gaiman has been known as a fiction writer, giving us delights like Neverwhere and American Gods and is the creative force behind the equally amazing and disturbing Sandman series of graphic novels. I first came across him in the collaboration with Terry Pratchett that is Good O...

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This nonfiction collection reads like Neil Gaiman is sitting down and telling you lots of cool stories about writing and people he knows. The collection is sectioned out with talks about his writing, speeches he has given over the years, introductions he has written for books. The only problem is...

from lyrrael

I've always enjoyed Neil Gaiman's nonfiction writing; he's a particularly poignant speaker, and a ruthless defender of libraries, literacy, and the unequivocal love of books, though he's got a somewhat childlike wonder about it, and, honestly, about all things. I've read some of this before in ...

from yoyogod

I was lucky enough to get a review copy of The View from the Cheap Seats, and after reading it, Ive come to one inescapable conclusion: Neil Gaiman is an evil genius with supernatural powers. It's the only explanation. How else could he write a book that's a collection of speeches, introductions,...