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The view from the cheap seats : selected nonfiction, Neil Gaiman
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xviii, 522 pages
- Contents
-
- 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
- Isbn
- 9780062262264
- Link
- static.harpercollins.com/harperimages/isbn/large/4/9780062262264.jpg
- Label
- The view from the cheap seats : selected nonfiction
- Title
- The view from the cheap seats
- Title remainder
- selected nonfiction
- Statement of responsibility
- Neil Gaiman
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Summary
- Presents a collection of nonfiction essays on a myriad of topics--from art and artists to dreams, myths, and memories--observed in the author's distinctive, probing, and amusing style
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10490218
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Gaiman, Neil,
- Dewey number
- 824/.914
- Index
- index present
- Intended audience
-
- 1140
- 1140L
- Intended audience source
-
- Lexile
- Lexile
- LC call number
- PR6057.A319
- LC item number
- A6 2016
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile
- 1140
- Literary form
- essays
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
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- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Gaiman, Neil
- Popular culture
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- selected non-fiction
- Label
- The view from the cheap seats : selected nonfiction, Neil Gaiman
- Link
- static.harpercollins.com/harperimages/isbn/large/4/9780062262264.jpg
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- 21063462
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xviii, 522 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062262264
- Lccn
- 2015046480
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other control number
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- 9780062262264
- 40026217344
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocn939277355
- (OCoLC)939277355
- Label
- The view from the cheap seats : selected nonfiction, Neil Gaiman
- Link
- static.harpercollins.com/harperimages/isbn/large/4/9780062262264.jpg
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- 21063462
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xviii, 522 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062262264
- Lccn
- 2015046480
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other control number
-
- 9780062262264
- 40026217344
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocn939277355
- (OCoLC)939277355
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