“Once More to the Lake” – E.B. White
“Here Is a Lesson in Creative Writing” – Kurt Vonnegut
“Notes of a Native Son” – James Baldwin
“The Invisible Made Visible” – David Rakoff
“The Death of a Moth” – Virginia Woolf
“Shooting an Elephant” — George Orwell
“The Braindead Megaphone” – George Saunders
Gaiman Essays:
Terry Pratchett: An Appreciation
Neil Gaiman on Dave McKean by Neil Gaiman
All Books Have Genders by Neil Gaiman (February, 2001)
How Dare You by Neil Gaiman (March, 2001)
Where do you get your ideas? by Neil Gaiman (1997)
Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett at EosCon IV, 2001
“Some Strangeness in the Proportion: The Exquisite Beauties of Edgar Allan Poe.”
Terry Pratchett: An Appreciation
Available at Gaiman’s site
Posted May 2004
An Introduction to Jonathan Carroll
Available at Carroll’s site
The Myth of Superman
Available at Wired Magazine
Published June 2006 (with Adam Rogers)
Happily Ever After
Available at The Guardian
Published November 2007
Julius Schwartz Lecture at MIT
Available at Open Transcripts
Lecture given in May 2008; watch the video here.
A Nobody’s Guide to the Oscars
Available at The Guardian
Published March 2010
A Man Who Won’t Forget Ray Bradbury
Available at The Guardian
Published June 2012
Make Good Art
Available at The University of the Arts
Keynote address given to The University of the Arts Class of 2012
On Lou Reed
Available at The Guardian
Published October 2013
The Reading Agency Lecture 2013
Available at The Reading Agency
Lecture given October 2013
Let’s Talk About Genre: Neil Gaiman and Kazuo Ishiguro in Conversation
Available at The New Statesman
Published May 2015
Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant
Available at The New York Times
Published March 2015
Why I Love Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Available at The Guardian
Published May 2015
