The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction (2016)

The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction (2016)

I. SOME THINGS I BELIEVE

Credo

Why Our Future Depends on Libraries, Reading and Daydreaming: The Reading Agency Lecture, 2013

Telling Lies for a Living … 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 [Very Bad Swearword] Is a Children’s Book, Anyway? The Zena Sutherland Lecture


IІ. SOME PEOPLE I HAVE KNOWN

These Are Not Our Faces

Reflections: On Diana Wynne Jones