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 is a children's book, anyway? The Zena Sutherland Lecture - Some people I have known. Credo Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming : the Reading Agency Lecture, 2013 Telling lies for a living. Includes bibliographical references and index Here 'we can meet the writer full on' (Stephen Fry) as he opens our minds to the people he admires and the things he believes might just mean something - and makes room for us to join the conversation too The View From the Cheap Seats will draw you in to these exchanges on making good art and Syrian refugees, the power of a single word and playing the kazoo with Stephen King, writing about books, comics and the imagination of friends, being sad at the Oscars and telling lies for a living.
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