Philip Pullman has posted his New Year Message 2006 on his website. In it he again ruminates on the problems of global warming, vowing that from now on he will never travel by plane at all. He promises that the next two years will see a concerted effort on writing The Book of Dust now that he has reached the end of the many talks he has given this past year. Read the message. addendum: There's an interesting debate on the boards about whether you could give up flying.
Pullman's New Year Message
January 4, 2006
His Dark Materials has the “most perfect title”
December 29, 2005
The His Dark Materials series has been deemed as having “the most perfect title” by a group of (bored, we can only presume) statisticians. The trilogy tied with Agatha Christies' Sleeping Murder, with a score of 83%. Read more.
New crew members join the Golden Compass
December 24, 2005
Kyra from the forums spotted that some new crew members have joined the team working on the film adaptation of The Golden Compass. Nick Davis (of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Troy and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, among many other commercial successes) will be the visual effects supervisor; Monty L. Simons (Collateral, Spider-Man 2, Hellboy) joins as the stunt co-ordinator (for “pre-vis, motion capture sequence”, according to IMDB); and Sara Romilly (Monster-in-Law, Blade, The Cell) arrives as post-production supervisor. It's all looking interestingly commercial…
New Yorker Pullman Article
December 19, 2005
The New Yorker has a lengthy piece on Philip Pullman this month. It covers a large swathe of ground from Pullman's early years (featuring quotes from his step-brother and favourite school teacher), through his time at Oxford, to his recent criticisms of C.S. Lewis. There's several interesting new pieces on information on Pullman in there and it's well worth taking the time to read through. See it here.
“Free Expression…” on sale
December 16, 2005
[i]Free Expression Is No Offence[/i], a book of essays including contributions from Philip Pullman, is now available from Amazon.co.uk.
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