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 Recounts The Author's Experiences At The 2010 Academy Awards In Hollywood. 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. Neil Gaiman. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.