Rushdie, Krugman featured at PEN festival

Salman Rushdie, Neil Gaiman and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman will be among the authors featured at this spring's PEN World Voices Festival, the writers organization announced Wednesday.

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Best bets: Dakota Fanning scores double-bill

From Henry Selick, the director of “Nightmare Before Christmas,” comes an off-beat tale of a girl (voiced by Dakota Fanning) who finds a secret door that takes her to another world. The film is based on the Hugo Award-winning book by Neil Gaiman and is filmed using 3-D animation. Considering Selick’s background with Tim Burton, expect this film to be happily askew. (Opens Feb. 6)

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The horror! Neil Gaiman's spooky book wins Newbery

Oh, the horror: Neil Gaiman has received the top prize for children's literature: The John Newbery Medal.

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Fantasy writer Neil Gaiman is writing a new crowd-sourced short story on Twitter. Starting tomorrow at noon EDT, the author—and well-known Twitter fan (@neilhimself)—will Tweet the first line of a new story, and fans can continue it with their own 140-character contributions.

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Neil Gaiman has just won this year's Hugo award for best novel, for The Graveyard Book – and I can't be the only one who isn't surprised by the news. I knew Gaiman was more than just a great writer when I read the comic mini-series Death: The High Cost of Living in 1993.

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Bruno Coulais is a brilliant composer. There are some interesting audio clips accompanying this interview.

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Following Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, Wil Wheaton, and Neil Gaiman on Twitter. How celebrities and active audiences interact.

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Yes, I am following Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, Wil Wheaton, and Neil Gaiman on Twitter Damn-it! Celebrities and active audiences meet and greet!

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Award-winning novelist Neil Gaiman, whose children's book Coraline hits the big screen next week, on how to appeal to children after Harry Potter and what it takes to work on the same project for over a decade.

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In author Neil Gaiman's poem "The Day the Saucers Came," the various science fiction apocalypses all happen on the same day. Now artist Jouni Koponen has created a whimsical illustrated print of the poem.

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Neil Gaiman's epic comics series The Sandman is waking to a momentous 20th anniversary.

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For EW's 1000th issue, we asked guest writers associated with a variety of the New Classics to contribute their own top 10 lists. Here are Neil Gaiman's favorite 10 New Classic Monsters, starting with...

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The upcoming title, to be released through D3 Publisher, will focus on the film adaptation of the author's best-selling children's book Coraline, which tells the story of young girl who enters an alternate world by way of a hidden door in her home.

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Neil Gaiman first garnered fame for his comic book of the 80's and 90's, The Sandman, which endeared him to all sorts of people who are now influential in the entertainment industry. He has written novels (one of which, Stardust, was recently adapted into a movie).

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Neil Gaiman's next movie project is Coraline, which follows the surreal Alice in Wonderland-esque adventures of girl named Coraline who discovers an alternate reality, bizarro world just beyond her flat.

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An in depth review that looks in detail at changes to the epic introduced by Neil Gaiman and Roger Avery; it argues that while the film does not mirror the poem there are good reasons why a movie adaptation for a modern audience might warrant changes.

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MirrorMask Review

Jim Henson's film "Mirrormask" tells the story of Helena, a 15year old girl played by Stephanie Leonidas. She works with her family who runs a circus. One day her mother becomes ill, and Helena finds herself in a strange dream like land.

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...and Maui actually failed to notice Neil's dedication because she was so starstruck.

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I sent Neil Gaiman the following question: Hi Neil, I see that you're featured on Amazon's Kindle page, providing a favorable review of the technology. Criticism (regarding DRM) is popping up: dive into mark and Daring Fireball

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Movie Review - Beowulf

With cutting edge computer generated animation, a roguishly regal Anthony Hopkins, a mostly-naked Angelina Jolie, a script co-written by Neil Gaiman and an original narrative source dating back 1500 years, the new Beowulf movie has to be good...right?

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LONDON - NOVEMBER 11: (EMBARGOED FOR PUBLICATION IN UK TABLOID NEWSPAPERS UNTIL 48 HOURS AFTER CREATE DATE AND TIME) Crispin Glover and Sir Anthony Hopkins attend the European premiere of 'Beowulf', at the Vue West End on November 11, 2007 in London, England. (Photo by Dave M.

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Looking for some quick Halloween treats? Here are some books you can dip into for short pieces:

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Movie Review : Stardust

This is one of the rare movies where so many different elements, characters, plot points come together to produce a wonderful family movie.

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The insightful and entertaining Wil Wheaton on the Nerd Demographic as it relates to blockbuster media.

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"Stardust" is a fantasy film that can be watched not just by the "Lord of the Rings" crowd, but also by people who wouldn't be caught dead at a fantasy film.

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Check out the Eisner winners this year from Comic-Con 2007

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Excerpt: "Back in 1997, when Stardust was first serialized in four monthly trade paperback editions, Neil Gaiman was known primarily as a "comic book guy." Stardust was published by Vertigo, the adults-only DC Comics imprint that helped make Gaiman's name with his groundbreaking  …

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Book Review: "Neverwhere" by Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman's influential penchant for dark urban fantasy presents itself in its least complicated form in his first novel, Neverwhere.

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