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Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman appears in the following:

Selected Shorts: Illusions

Sunday, February 03, 2013

Guest host Neil Gaiman introduces two tales of illusion.

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Selected Shorts: Dreams and Schemes

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Guest host Neil Gaiman introduces two American classics. 

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Selected Shorts: Tales of Terror from Edgar Allan Poe

Sunday, October 28, 2012

“I have missed my turnings on strange mountain roads in the early hours of the morning because I was too carried away by listening to someone…reading Poe stories.”

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The Footprints of a Gigantic Detective: Sherlock Holmes Inspires a New Anthology

Friday, January 13, 2012

“One day in 1897, Arthur Conan Doyle sat down to write a tale of an odd young man with peculiar skills and changed the world.”

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Selected Shorts: The Magical Imagination of Neil Gaiman

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Two of the stories on this program come from an evening at Symphony Space hosted and curated by the prolific and multi-talented fantasy writer Neil Gaiman.  

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Neil Gaiman Continued

Saturday, October 01, 2005

A god walks into a bar, flirts with the tourists, and has a heart attack singing karaoke, leaving his two sons to stumble into a conflict older than civilization. Gaiman explains how his new book Anansi Boys is not really a fantasy novel — it's a comedy inspired by P.G. ...

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Gods, Mirrormask, Superball

Saturday, October 01, 2005

Neil Gaiman joins Kurt Andersen to talk about his new novel Anansi Boys. It’s about the two sons of the Afro-Caribbean spider god Anansi, whom Gaiman wrote about in his breakout novel American Gods. Gaiman has also written the new movie Mirrormask, produced by the Jim Henson Company. It’s the ...