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Journalism 101: The new entertainment reporter

A copy editor friend of mine has been assigned the duty of assembling and filling her paper’s entertainment page. It’s normally taken care of by freelancers, but freelancers aren’t full-time employees, and they can’t really be relied upon, as a general rule, the same way you can rely on someone whose entire livelihood depends on […]

Children’s fantasy on NPR

Yesterday, I caught an NPR segment on children’s fantasy literature. It was a really good segment — Neil Gaiman is always a seemingly effortlessly good interviewee — but a comment by Christopher Paolini, the whiz kid whose first novel was written when he was 15 years old, made a comment that I fundementally disagreed with. […]

Terry Pratchett on NPR

Terry Pratchett, author of the Discworld novels and co-author, with Neil Gaiman, of Good Omens, was interviewed by NPR yesterday on science-fiction themes invading literary fiction. Also interviewed was Susanna Clarke, author of the wonderful Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.

Giffen talks “Drax,” JLI and erections

(Originally spotted over on Rob Worley’s site. And you thought my URL was obscure.) If, somewhere along the way in your journalism career, you get a chance to interview Keith Giffen, do it. There’s no better quote machine in the comics industry, and I throw Stan Lee, Neil Gaiman, Jim Steranko and anyone else you […]