Literary

Dressed in black and based in the US, Neil Gaiman has, in the past decade, become an author hero among readers of all ages, including the 1.8 million who follow him on Twitter. In prize-winning, best-selling novels including Coraline, Neverwhere, American Gods and The Graveyard Book, he combines the everyday and the other-worldly, drawing on sources from English folklore, science fiction, fantasy, horror and fairytales to rock music and the Midrash. An element of enchantment runs through all his work. To mark the publication of The Ocean at the End of the Lane, an unsettling and very personal fable about memory, magic and survival, he is making one public appearance in London. Interviewed by the Guardian's literary editor, Claire Armitstead, he reflects on the boundaries between children's and adult literature; the appeal of working in multiple forms - such as comics, picture books and screenplays; the writers - from Kipling to Edgar Allan Poe - who have most influenced him; and the lure of darkness.

The Guardian  is media partner for this event.

Neil Gaiman in conversation with Claire Armitstead: June 2013

Interview with Anthony Del Col, co-creator of Kill Shakespeare graphic novel series who will be giving an exclusive talk at Shakespeare's Globe at 7pm on 21 May. More details here: bit.ly/1HSUcA9

Interview: From the stage to page in Kill Shakespeare graphic novels

Interview: Women In Graphic Novels and 'Kill Shakespeare' series

Claire Tomalin looks at the background, language and themes of Pepys' diary, and at how it relates to his life as a whole. Chaired by John Carey.

Pepys: the making of a diarist (Claire Tomalin)

An excerpt from the audiobook edition of A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh

After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last has grown bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony. She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes Tony for the Belgravia set. In a novel that combines tragedy, comedy, and savage irony, Evelyn Waugh indelibly captures the irresponsible mood of the "crazy and sterile generation" between the wars.

The full audiobook edition of A HANDFUL OF DUST will be published by Hachette Audio on December 11, available online where books and music are sold. The print edition is published by Little, Brown and Company.

Excerpt from A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh, Read by Andrew Sachs

The audiobook edition of  SERIOUSLY... I'M KIDDING is now a GRAMMY Nominee!

The audiobook is available on CD in stores and as a Digital Download online where books and music are sold:

Digital Download:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/audiobook/seriously...im-kidding-unabridged/id469924124 
http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_1?asin=B005QR3IYM&qid=1354809132&sr=1-1
http://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/seriouslyim-kidding/102342
http://www.emusic.com/listen/#/book/ellen-degeneres/seriously-im-kidding/10105165/: 


CD:
http://www.amazon.com/Seriously-Im-Kidding-Ellen-DeGeneres/dp/1619692368/ref=tmm_abk_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1354809147&sr=8-1 
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/seriously-im-kidding-ellen-degeneres/1100403409?ean=9781609410414

Or order through your local bookstore! http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780446585040 

Excerpt from SERIOUSLY... I'M KIDDING by Ellen DeGeneres

"Each person has a literature inside them."

Excerpt from Debbie Millman's fantastic Design Matters podcast: https://soundcloud.com/designmatters/jake-barton

Jake Barton on inner literature (Design Matters)

Excerpt from Debbie Millman's fantastic Design Matters podcast: https://soundcloud.com/designmatters/jake-barton

More on collaborative storytelling: http://exp.lore.com/post/32906293358/jake-barton-of-local-projects-on-the-power-of

Jake Barton on collaborative storytelling

1340-Filler-Antimetabole1.mp3

An extract from the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Susan Cain's ground-breaking book Quiet, brilliantly read by Kathe Mazur.

About the book:

In Quiet, the international bestseller, Susan Cain shows how the brain chemistry of introverts and extroverts differs, and how society misunderstands and undervalues introverts. She gives introverts the tools to better understand themselves and take full advantage of their strengths.

Passionately argued, superbly researched, and filled with real stories, Quiet will permanently change how we see introverts - and how you see yourself.

Susan Cain: Quiet (Audiobook Extract) read by Kathe Mazur

We take a walk through London’s Chinatown with Rosemary Sales and Xia Lin, Researchers at Middlesex University, to discuss the complex of identities in the area and meanings of home for Chinese immigrants. John Gittings, Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African, talks about China’s early peace philosophers and the importance of engaging the country in diplomacy. Ting Xu, Research Fellow at LSE’s economic history department, speaks about growing up in China in the wake of the Cultural Revolution and how her parent’s boundless passion for books was a source of inspiration. 

Presented by Amy Mollett. Produced by Cheryl Brumley. Other Contributors: Rosemary Sales, Xia Lin, Perry Fung, John Gitting,Ting Xu. Music and sound came courtesy of the following users at freesound.org: bebeto (Intro music); Harri (Hypno1 and Hypno5); and Harp (Pryght-one); and the following user from the FreeMusicArchive.org: Jiony (Not Found_Invisible).

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