Two Legends Talk About None Of The Things You Want Them To Talk About: Gaiman Interviews Abrams

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There isn’t a lot of hard news in this interview video – by which I mean there isn’t any hard news in it – but it caught our attention because of the people involved.

J. J. Abrams has been doing the press circuit, not for Star Wars, but for a book called S, which Abrams conceived of and which was written by Doug Dorst (The author of something called Alive in Necropolis, which is, as you’d expect based on the title, a zombie story) and is comprised of not just the book, but “handwritten” notes and letters detailing a fiction investigation about the book and its author. And promotion for that book brought Abrams and Dorst to England and the BBC… where they were interviewed by an obscure journalist whose reporting is best known in a book called Don’t Panic, a long out-of-print companion book to Douglas Adams’s Hitchhikers Guide series published in 1988.

That journalist? Some dude named Neil Gaiman. If that is his real name.

The video contains a lot of talk about the book (which does sound pretty interesting… even if my gut reaction was to try and buy it on my Nook Color), as well as books and reading in general. And yes, there are a couple of questions about the casting of Star Wars: Episode VII. Not many answers, but questions nonetheless.