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An enthralling assortment of nonfiction bits on myriad matters - from artwork and performers to dreams, misconceptions, and memories to comics, videos, and literature - seen in award-winning number-one New York Times best-selling Neil Gaiman's probing, amusing, and distinctive style. An inquisitive observer, thoughtful commentator, and assiduous craftsman, Neil Gaiman is definitely celebrated for the well-defined intellect and startling creativity that informs his fiction. Now The View from the Cheap Seating includes, for the first time ever, more than 60 works of his exceptional nonfiction on matters and people near to his heart. As Neil talks about, "This e book is not 'the complete nonfiction of Neil Gaiman'. It really is, instead, a motley couple of speeches and articles, introductions and essays. A few of them are serious, plus some of them are frivolous, plus some of them are earnest, plus some of them I wrote to attempt to make people listen." In prose that's analytical yet frolicsome, erudite yet accessible, Neil explores a wide range of hobbies and matters, including (however, not limited by) writers past and present; music; storytelling; comics; bookshops; travel; fairy tales; America; enthusiasm; libraries; spirits; and the title piece, at changes touching and self-deprecating, which recounts his activities at the 2010 Academy Awards in Hollywood. Neil ponders the truth of fiction and the power of reports (and just why we tell them) and offers his own information of and insights into writers who have affected him, including C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Ray Bradbury, Diana Wynne Jones, Stephen King, Rudyard Kipling, Wayne Thurber, and his dear friend, Terry Pratchett. He offers unlikely perspectives on themes as diverse as The Bride of Frankenstein, Doctor Who, Batman, Tori Amos, Lou Reed, They Might Be Giants, and Amanda Palmer. And he carries a moving article on the plight of Syrian refugees in a US camp in Jordan. Illuminating and incisive, witty and sensible, The View from the Cheap Seating explores a few of the issues, themes, and people that matter most to Neil Gaiman - and offers a unique view into the brain of one of the very most beloved and important writers of our own time.
