Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
Neil Gaiman
Headline, 352pp, £18.99
Is any writer so joyously comfy in the digital age as Neil Gaiman? He has a singular ability to spot a new platform, climb up and sing from it in his own voice. As @neilhimself, he has over two million followers on Twitter. His big-hearted commencement speech “Make Good Art” has hundreds of thousands of hits on YouTube. He is even responsible for one of those dodgily attributed quotations that flutter around Tumblr: “Fairy tales are more than true – not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.” This is, in fact, a punchy Gaiman précis of a complex paragraph from G K Chesterton.
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