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Neil Gaiman: Norse Mythology and American Gods

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Best-selling author Neil Gaiman bends genres while reaching audiences of all ages. His works for adults include American Gods, Neverwhere, Anansi Boys, and The Ocean at the End of the Lane-voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards. His children’s novel The Graveyard Book is the only work to win both the Newbery (US) and Carnegie (UK) Medals, both awarded by librarians for the most prestigious contribution to children’s literature.
Gaiman joins Jared Bowen, Executive Arts Editor at WGBH, for a conversation at the Boston Public Library.
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@stelmaria-mx
@stelmaria-mx 5 жыл бұрын
Neil's voice is beautiful
@ninfarose
@ninfarose 4 жыл бұрын
I agrre I suubed to you
@tobiasbaumgartner8629
@tobiasbaumgartner8629 3 жыл бұрын
Yes I could listen to him for hours
@craftchild_9151
@craftchild_9151 3 жыл бұрын
I love how open minded and fun Neil Gaiman isand how he meshes pop culture well with mythology. 😂👍😊❤ And I'm grateful that most of us pagans are not as uptight as some other religions. 😂😅
@danieloneal7137
@danieloneal7137 7 жыл бұрын
Only Neil Gaiman could make you feel sad for Fenris Wolf.
@kevinpotts123
@kevinpotts123 6 жыл бұрын
Daniel O'Neal that isn't true. I have felt badly for him ever since I first heard the myth about him.
@gyrojinn
@gyrojinn 6 жыл бұрын
The fear Odin couldn't conquer begot his most dangerous opponent.
@jantekjantek
@jantekjantek 4 жыл бұрын
You now insulted everyone who believes in the old gods. Conception of good and evil has nothing to do with them. Prepare for blood feud! What is you fathers name and yours village?!?
@ninfarose
@ninfarose 3 жыл бұрын
Love 💗🌁🦃 Beasts and Generis Wolf.
@user-wv9vb1yh7r
@user-wv9vb1yh7r 7 жыл бұрын
I've loved Neil's works ever since my high school English teacher gave me a copy of sandman junior year!
@BimbleThrooLife
@BimbleThrooLife 3 жыл бұрын
anyone else well up when he talks about the late great Terry Pratchett and Good Omens?
@corinmiyuki4078
@corinmiyuki4078 7 жыл бұрын
I enjoyed this immensely
@BishopFishSixtySix
@BishopFishSixtySix 6 жыл бұрын
That first comment about learning of Thorr's existence from Neil......Desire plus a learnt behaviour.....so beautifully human
@Loomofthefruit-s
@Loomofthefruit-s 7 жыл бұрын
13:19 Great story, heard a longer version as a child
@HellaGust
@HellaGust 7 жыл бұрын
Interestingly, the first issue of Peter Madsens Valhall comics also have Loki tricking Þjálfi into breaking the bone. And that initial album was printed back in '79. Great minds think alike I suppose. :D
@fakethefun
@fakethefun 7 жыл бұрын
Loke Odinson me three 😬
@Toasty373
@Toasty373 3 жыл бұрын
Wonderful author
@callemdavies7942
@callemdavies7942 3 жыл бұрын
WOW! I did NOT know Niel wrote for B5! Possibly one of my most treasured influences growing up.
@ianmartinezcassmeyer
@ianmartinezcassmeyer 2 жыл бұрын
Last season. It's a great episode
@lunalin9870
@lunalin9870 2 жыл бұрын
Some of these comments... I could never understand how someone can like Neil's works and still support Trump.
@AndrewRMontoya
@AndrewRMontoya 7 ай бұрын
Sounds like you’re missing key information or believe incorrect information.
@jackijura249
@jackijura249 4 жыл бұрын
please consider hearing loss and record at a volume we can turn up
@StorytellingHeadshots
@StorytellingHeadshots 4 жыл бұрын
I agree. However one suggestion is you can purchase a external bluetooth speaker that can amplify the sound so yiure not limited to the capacity of your computer’s internal speakers. I like the Oontz brand, which you can find on Amazon.com for less than $30. Good luck! :-) Hope this helps!
@constancemiller3753
@constancemiller3753 4 жыл бұрын
Suggest it in email to the Boston Public Library. They might close- caption thier lectures as an American with Disabilities act public service. They are awesome folk:)
@TheSWolfe
@TheSWolfe Жыл бұрын
The volume diminishes as video progresses. By its end, I had ear to laptop speaker, which made viewing difficult as I am far-sighted! Lol Annoying, yes, but content worth effort. Thought volume control faulty at first, had to double-check to be sure was turned up all the way.
@kalevala1778
@kalevala1778 5 жыл бұрын
I’ve been workin’ on the whale road, all the live-long day!
@nixeradicatus
@nixeradicatus 3 жыл бұрын
Greetings from Peak Ragnarok.
@p.c.howard7025
@p.c.howard7025 13 күн бұрын
Great interview!
@cmcgrew98
@cmcgrew98 2 жыл бұрын
I do love the story of Fenrir!
@Randy-1967
@Randy-1967 3 жыл бұрын
Snorri Sturluson only wrote the pros edda , the poetic edda is older , he in quite a few cases directly quotes the poetic edda
@mariamkinen8036
@mariamkinen8036 3 жыл бұрын
I'd love to visit Norway.
@ninfarose
@ninfarose 3 жыл бұрын
Love you Neil. We share many same passions I think. 🤍🇮🇹💐🦃
@clausmatrik2417
@clausmatrik2417 7 жыл бұрын
Loke has something to do with a Spider. the Horse sleibner has 8 legs and Loke is the inventere of fishinnets.
@JohnSmith-el2nj
@JohnSmith-el2nj 7 жыл бұрын
I used to read Fantastic! and Terrific!
@ShawnWeeded510
@ShawnWeeded510 7 жыл бұрын
Love this guys work but his comments on a silent comic has literally already been done so the story In Norse mythology he's saying can't be done can be done with the right artist and art style.
@djdora
@djdora 5 жыл бұрын
It was both funny and sad when he talked about Terry 😭
@howardkoor2796
@howardkoor2796 2 жыл бұрын
What a mind on that boy!
@brandonknowles1648
@brandonknowles1648 5 жыл бұрын
Sounds like Wee Small Hours of the Morning was the song he couldn't think of
@spoonerbooner
@spoonerbooner Жыл бұрын
god I love Neil
@ninfarose
@ninfarose 3 жыл бұрын
Agreeee 🌈🌈🌈 Collingwood Ontario Public Library
@supersiamesisk
@supersiamesisk Жыл бұрын
This is basically what we swedes are thouhgt.
@thetruth45678
@thetruth45678 5 жыл бұрын
Gods are the prehistoric predator. The hero is the sacrifice, given up to the lion to save the tribe. The conquest of the lion is redemption.
@telemetriklongwalk4326
@telemetriklongwalk4326 3 жыл бұрын
Cute but no
@thetruth45678
@thetruth45678 3 жыл бұрын
@@telemetriklongwalk4326 The blind never see the truth.
@BigHenFor
@BigHenFor 2 жыл бұрын
You are blind if you follow the lore of the Hero. Read Ernest Becker's "The Denial of Death". Then think how much the pursuit of heroic immortality has caused humanity pain.
@thetruth45678
@thetruth45678 2 жыл бұрын
@@BigHenFor No. I don't think I will.
@prof_parahelix2390
@prof_parahelix2390 5 жыл бұрын
In-faux-mation
@dilly2000
@dilly2000 2 жыл бұрын
Jesus
@fullmetaltheorist
@fullmetaltheorist 3 жыл бұрын
That guy sound like Kermit the frog.
@WhatTheBearSaw
@WhatTheBearSaw 3 жыл бұрын
IT is 2021 and I'd like to know what Gaiman would recommend for helping us to survive the "Biden Year(s?)". I actually survived the Trump years. I think it's because I didn't give in to hysteria and stopped following mainstream news.
@telemetriklongwalk4326
@telemetriklongwalk4326 3 жыл бұрын
The best thing about the Trump years is people started paying attention to all the evil things our country does. Now with Biden in power, we are doing the same things but everyone went back to sleep. If you think Trump and Biden are fundamentally different, you are part of the problem
@BigHenFor
@BigHenFor 2 жыл бұрын
Do it in the same way you survived the Trump years, because it's just another chapter of the same story. Unless human nature has evolved, it's the same story, different cast.
@jimpalmer2981
@jimpalmer2981 Жыл бұрын
A lot of people didn’t survive the Trump years.
@beeawesome2869
@beeawesome2869 Жыл бұрын
And how about who can teach us about surviving a biden administration?
@jimpalmer2981
@jimpalmer2981 Жыл бұрын
Ahhhhh, your butthurt is so touching.
@beeawesome2869
@beeawesome2869 Жыл бұрын
@@jimpalmer2981 Don't be touching my butt you maniac.
@beeawesome2869
@beeawesome2869 Жыл бұрын
@@jimpalmer2981 @Jim Palmer Really? Who or what are you with your snarky comment to me? Are you the Biden / Harris defender of the KZfaq comment section? Or are you really the defender of hurt butts? If so, you must be really busy what with all the snowflakes today, and their butts melting by the word Trump or the simple question, what is a woman or the elementary concept of the biological differences of boys and girls. Out of all the comments here, you were touched by mine. And, honestly, in my initial reply, I thought you sounded like a pervert more than a maniac. But, whatever the case, my comment was made in good humor even if you didn't understand or get it. It's the interviewer's question. I just changed one word. So, is the interviewer, or whoever submitted the question, butthurt too? The changed name doesn't change the meaning. You could exchange Mr Trump with the majority of politician's names, like Brandon or Hillary, and wonder if we will survive. Or, it's possible to stop automatically being so serious about the ever changing and ceaselessly ridiculous and yet usually boring political landscape to find enough humor for a laugh or at least a smile.
@jimpalmer2981
@jimpalmer2981 Жыл бұрын
@@beeawesome2869 Aw. Cry, little MAGot. Cry for us. Your poor, tender lwiddle sensitive feewings.
@Wilhelm4131
@Wilhelm4131 6 жыл бұрын
Really, Trump is more Viking then this guy.
@benjicalavera3218
@benjicalavera3218 5 жыл бұрын
Words of Welke i doubt those tiny hands could lift an axe 🤣 You really think me bone spurs would make it as a viking lmao he would be a roman concubine at best 🤣
@bunnitrixelstrange3594
@bunnitrixelstrange3594 3 жыл бұрын
I love Neil’s stories great writer. Shame about the Politics. Trump Rules
@BigHenFor
@BigHenFor 2 жыл бұрын
This comment aged like stale milk.
@jimpalmer2981
@jimpalmer2981 Жыл бұрын
What an idiot. Apparently you missed tbe whole point of Gaiman’s work.
@stevenlennon12
@stevenlennon12 5 жыл бұрын
GO TRUMP!!
@annietrueman7
@annietrueman7 4 жыл бұрын
Straight to jail🤪
@Toasty373
@Toasty373 3 жыл бұрын
Neat
@obcl8569
@obcl8569 2 жыл бұрын
Go, get outta here already, you heard the man! Go, Trump! And yes... Straight to jail.
@jimpalmer2981
@jimpalmer2981 Жыл бұрын
How stupid can people be, really.
@sonnygivens4549
@sonnygivens4549 4 жыл бұрын
I don't get why every American gods interview he does, the interviewer always has to bring it to politics...and trump....
@thegodofimagination
@thegodofimagination 4 жыл бұрын
Well he was ask and American Gods is show/book(i haven't read book i really should) about immigration so it kinda inevitable that in poltical climate around immigration to American especially Trumps stance on it that it would be brought up. Should been maybe not but an interview and we got take grain with the salt as the saying goes
@BigHenFor
@BigHenFor 2 жыл бұрын
Politics is a by product of societies being run as heroic systems. The flirtation with undermining democracy is a by product of one class of people projecting their fear and paranoia into the future. It's all that, so stories are important as they help create that future. So Gaiman need not demur in challenging modern myths.
@obcl8569
@obcl8569 2 жыл бұрын
@@BigHenFor well said.
@PhilosoFeed
@PhilosoFeed 3 жыл бұрын
Lol that's so crazy I totally survived the Trump administration without ever having seen this video. How do people like this still show their faces lol.
@sistinia88
@sistinia88 6 жыл бұрын
I wish he had kept his political views to himself and stuck with the stories
3 жыл бұрын
He was asked a question and would be rude not to answer. Politics are something that he goes out of his way not to talk about. Also, what exactly did you gleam from his answer, that you had to phrase it as “his political views”? Also also, he does have the right to do whatever he wants and speak his mind in whatever he wishes. Fancy ways of saying “shut up” aren’t nice at all.
@telemetriklongwalk4326
@telemetriklongwalk4326 3 жыл бұрын
So you wish he didn't answer questions in an interview? Such a snowflake
@jimpalmer2981
@jimpalmer2981 Жыл бұрын
I just bet you do, MAGot.
@cozmonauts932
@cozmonauts932 3 жыл бұрын
didnt know neil was a liberal, i guess its time to read someone else LMAO
@fullmetaltheorist
@fullmetaltheorist 3 жыл бұрын
One reader leaving won't affect his sales much
@fullmetaltheorist
@fullmetaltheorist 3 жыл бұрын
One reader leaving won't affect his sales much
@Swanky11
@Swanky11 3 жыл бұрын
you won't be missed 🙄
@cmcgrew98
@cmcgrew98 2 жыл бұрын
I suspected that he was a liberal, given that he is good friends with Tori Amos, who is definitely liberal. That being said, though I think it's best to leave politics out of the picture unless it is strictly necessary.
@cmcgrew98
@cmcgrew98 2 жыл бұрын
My feeling with Gaiman and Amos is that people like them can be very talented at what they do, and one can still learn something from them even if one doesn't necessarily see eye to eye with them on certain political matters.
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