• Reflections

    Considering the Fall of Neil Gaiman

    I would read other books, of course, but in my heart I knew that I read them only because there wasn’t an infinite number of Narnia books to read … C.S. Lewis was the first person to make me want to be a writer. (Neil Gaiman, keynote speech, “Mythcon 35”) The celebrated English fantasy author, Neil Gaiman, has been shot out of the sky. In August, a podcast began to detail allegations of sexual abuse made against him by five different women. Last week, New York Magazine published a longer and more horrifically detailed catalogue, partly supported by testimonies from new victims. The new article is convincing and compelling (also…