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Daily Archives: August 5, 2022

The Magpie Principle: an Alternative Explanation


Neil Gaiman is one of WC’s favorite writers, partly because you never, ever know what Gaiman’s next book or creative effort is going to be about. In a long interview (paywalled) of Gaiman in the New York Times on August 1, David Marchese asked him about fan expectations after Gaiman’s hugely popular, hugely influential Sandman…

August 5, 2022 in Commentary, Meta Comments, Miscellany.
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