The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction (2016)
I. SOME THINGS I BELIEVE
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
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
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