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Amanda Palmer's Kickstarter Campaign Reaches $1M

Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: One Million Dollars, Video, Neil Gaiman, Amanda Palmer Kickstarter, Slideexpand, Kickstarter, Dresden Dolls, Ridiculous Amounts of Money, Amanda Palmer, Amanda Palmer Naked, Arts News

Amanda Palmer just reached 21,134 backers for her Kickstarter project, which is an incredible milestone for the female performer. However, the real ki...

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The Life Out Loud: Making New Dreams A Reality

MeiMei Fox | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Adventure, Neil Gaiman, Jospeh Campbell, Self-Actualization, Fulfillment, Solar Eclipse, Life Dreams, Happiness, Creativity, Dreams, Inspiration, Becoming Fearless, Becoming-Fearless, Follow Dreams, Healthy Living News

Did we really want to buy a house? No. It just had felt like what we should do. What we really wanted, what would make us truly happy, was not fitting ourselves into some prescribed mold but making our greatest dreams come true.

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Writing About Writing

Zaki Hasan | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Commencement Speeches, Commencement, Neil Gaiman, Writing, Practice, Writing a Novel, Writing Advice, Culture News

Suddenly, I'm a writer who used to draw. How'd that happen? Like all skills, your abilities develop the more you do something, and atrophy the longer you're away. You want to be a writer? Write. Looking for inspiration as a writer? Write.

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WATCH: Neil Gaiman Inspirational Commencement Speech

Posted 05.21.2012

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Neil Gaiman gave a commencement speech last week, and it was typically inspiring. The fiction author famous for "The Sandman" and "Coraline" was also ...

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'Hey Nineteen': I Can Relate

Hank Bordowitz | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: The Princess Bride, Ray Bradbury, Neil Gaiman, Cultural Literacy, Culture Literacy, Relating to Younger Generation, Hey Nineteen, The Younger Generation, Steely Dan, Younger Generation Cultural Literacy, Steely Dan Hey Nineteen, Younger Generation, Fifty News

This morning's edition reminded me of the great Steely Dan tune "Hey Nineteen": "Hey Nineteen, that's 'Retha Franklin/She don't remember the queen of soul ...." Every cultural reference I made fell on uncomprehending ears.

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Neil Gaiman Talks Firefly, Free Speech On Campus, and One of the Craziest Cases of the Year (VIDEO)

Greg Lukianoff | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Firefly Series, First Amendment, Firefly Poster, Joss Whedon, Free Speech, Nathan Filion, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Neil Gaiman, Video, College News

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WATCH: Neil Gaiman On The Simpsons

Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Television, Video, Publishing, Neil Gaiman, Ya, The Book Job, Writing, Reality-Free, Young Adult, Fiction, Twilight, The Simpsons, Book Stores, Young Adult Fiction, Books News

Available free to watch online for one week (click above), the new episode of The Simpsons, called "The Book Job", features Neil Gaiman ("The British ...

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Which Author Is Appearing On The Simpsons?

Madeleine Crum | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Neil Gaiman Simpsons, Book News, Coraline, Video, Neil Gaiman, Simpsons Cameo, The Sandman, The Simpsons, Books News

This Sunday, fantasy writer Neil Gaiman will be the latest celebrity to make a guest appearance on The Simpsons. He is perhaps best known for writing ...

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All Hallow's Read: A Few Spooky Suggestions for Kids

Monica Edinger | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Childrens Books, Book News, Ghosts, Halloween, Neil Gaiman, Horror, Books, Witches, Parents, Halloween With Kids, Books News

Having had a lot of fun creating a Last Gasp Summer Reading video, Betsy Bird and I decided to support Neil's initiative by making a Spooky Recommendations edition. Enjoy!

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Famous Writers Sign On To Support Occupy Wall Street

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrew Losowsky | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Occupy Writers, Video, Writers, Neil Gaiman, Occupy Wall Street, Lemony Snicket, Salman Rushdie, Jeff Sharlet, Occupy Movement, Donna Tartt, Occupy Wall Street Library, Books News

Its statement is simple and stark. "We, the undersigned writers and all who will join us, support Occupy Wall Street and the Occupy Movement aroun...

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College Changes Course on Censorship of 'Firefly' Poster

Greg Lukianoff | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: University, Firefly Series, First Amendment, Firefly Poster, Neil Gaiman, Joss Whedon, College, Free Speech, Charles Sorensen, University of Wisconsin-Stout, Nathan Fillion, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Greg Lukianoff, Adam Baldwin, College News

While I am excited to see Stout offering to educate the community about the First Amendment, it is not the university community that needs educating. It is Sorensen, Police Chief Lisa A. Walter and their fellow administrators who need it.

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Amanda Palmer Discusses the Launch of David Lynch Foundation Music

Brandon Deroche | Posted 09.11.2011

Playing music coincides directly with the essence of meditation, and therefore it's no surprise that the two are again linked with today's launch of the David Lynch Foundation's newest venture -- DLF Music's "Download for Good."

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Spotted Reading In Public: Summer Reads On The Way To The Beach

Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Neil Gaiman, John Steinbeck, Harper Lee, A Confederacy of Dunces, Reading in Public, Nick Hornby, Jules Verne, Spotted Reading in Public, Dune, Books News

New Yorkers read in public constantly, and we've spotted them reading plenty this summer on the way to the beach. And like the City itself, the collec...

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Chatting with Ben Folds; Plus His Video Premiere of "A Working Day"

Mike Ragogna | Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: Damien Kulash, Ben Folds Five, Neil Gaiman, High Fidelity, Bristol Palin, Levi Johnston, OK Go, Ben Folds, Nick Hornby, The Sing-Off, American Idol, Amanda Palmer, About a Boy, Sarah Palin, Ben Folds Working Day Video, Entertainment News

Co-written with novelist Nick Hornby, "A Working Day" is Ben Folds' commentary on popularity and hipness that skewers its topic while calling out the internet, blogs, and other social media in the process.

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PHOTOS: America's Favorite British Authors And Jane Austen Wasn't On The List!

Posted 09.03.2011

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America has an enduring love affair with British literature--we may have won the War of Independence but we are forever indebted to our island ancesto...

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WATCH: Glenn Beck Will Quit If 'The Onion' Gets A Pulitzer

Posted 08.24.2011

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As if the Pulitzer board needed any more reasons to recognize "The Onion," Glenn Beck has now thrown his weight behind the campaign, suggesting that i...

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On Our Radar: What's New And Hot In Summer Books

Posted 08.23.2011

Read More: Rebecca Makkai, Hot Books, American Gods, Neil Gaiman, On Our Radar Books, Ellen Airgood, Charles Yu, Slidepollajax, Georgia O'Keeffe, The Invisible Gorilla and Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceives US, Books News

We've been unpacking books for summer reading and thought you'd want to know what we've found--everything from big fiction to quiet first novels, from...

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A Writer's Writing Process: An Interview With My Father, Jay Wolpert

Heather Wolpert-Gawron | Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: The Price Is Right, Screenplays, Writing Process, Neil Gaiman, Linda Sue Park, Jay Wolpert, Switching Careers, Pirates of the Carribean, Books News

I truly believe that most people who should write... and who don't write... don't because they're afraid to find out that they're lousy at it. Not wanting to confront that unpleasant truth in myself, I invented powerful excuses not to write.

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The Book Doctors Present: As You Like It, Or the Power of Facebook for Authors

David Henry Sterry | Posted 07.17.2011

Read More: The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published, Antonella Iannarino, Books, Writing, Annik LaFarge, Writer, Facebook, The Book Doctors, Social Media, Publishing, Neil Gaiman, Laurell K. Hamilton, How to Get Published, Gretchen Rubin, Mitch Albom, Keith Thompson, William Shakespeare, Books News

Every day writers of all ages, races and creeds; published, self-published and unpublished, breathlessly ask us, "Do I really have to have a Facebook page, and if so, what the heck do I do with it?"

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PHOTOS: Writers And Their Kitties

writersandkitties.tumblr.com | Posted 07.12.2011

Read More: Famous Writers, Writers and Pets, Peter Matthiessen, Neil Gaiman, Writers, William S. Burroughs, Gore Vidal, Mark Twain, V.S. Naipaul, Writers and Kitties, Books News

From Zoe Triska, Huffington Post: This blog catalogs famous writers with the pet kittens and cats. Too cute!...

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PHOTOS: 10 Writers’ Unruly, Manly Manes

flavorwire.com | Posted 07.10.2011

Read More: Nadeem Aslam, Jerzy Kosinski, Writers, Neil Gaiman, Jack Kerouac, Crazy Hair, Homer, Martin Amis, David Foster Wallace, Bernard-Henri Levy, Malcolm Gladwell, Frederick Douglass, Books News

We were a little bit late in reading Jorian Polis Schutz’s analysis of manly manes in the last issue of Cabinet, titled “Barbers and Barbarians,...

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State Legislator's Mom Makes Him Apologize To Neil Gaiman

nytimes.com | DAVE ITZKOFF | Posted 07.06.2011

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A Minnesota legislator who ridiculed the fantasy writer Neil Gaiman has apologized for his intemperate remarks, but is standing by his criticism of th...

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Neil Gaiman Is A 'Pencil Necked Weasel' Says Angry Minnesota Lawmaker

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.05.2011

Read More: Eat the Press, Authors, Neil Gaiman, Minnesota, Pencil-Necked Weasel, Speaking Fees, Minnesota Legacy Fund, Matt Dean, Books News

While most of my assumptions about the state of Minnesota are based upon a single weekend trip to Minneapolis and the entire Replacements discography,...

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Neil Gaiman's Response To Being On Senator's 'Hate List'

guardian.co.uk | Alison Flood | Posted 07.05.2011

Read More: Minnesota Senator, Star Tribune, Neil Gaiman, Hate Lists, Stillwater Library, Matt Dean, Nixon's Enemies List, Republicans, Books News

Pencil-necked? Maybe. Thief? No way. Award-winning author Neil Gaiman has defended himself against Republican Matt Dean's extraordinary claim that he ...

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Neil Gaiman Placed On Minnesota Senator's 'Hate List'

The A.V. Club | Erik Adams | Posted 07.04.2011

Read More: Minnesota Senator, Neil Gaiman, Hate Lists, Neil Gaiman Blog, Matt Dean, Minneapolis Star Tribune, #Newwebfail, Republican Party, Books News

Neil Gaiman personally stepped into the war over funding for public broadcasting earlier today, tweeting that he had been put on the Minnesota Republi...

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