Today’s Guardian newspaper features an extract from the soon-to-be-released His Dark Materials follow up, Once Upon A Time In The North. It’s roughly what has been heard previously at the occasional reading, but it’s quite long, so beware, there is the odd spoiler. Read it here.
Once Upon A Time In The North Extract
March 22, 2008
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Humanist award for Pullman
March 21, 2008
The American Humanist Association will celebrate Philip Pullman this summer as International Humanist Awardee. “His popular and sometimes controversial works champion such humanist values as kindness, love, courage, courtesy, intellectual curiosity, and opposition to organized dogma and tyranny.” The World Humanist Congress Evening Awards Banquet will take place Saturday, 7 June at L’Enfant Plaza Hotel in Washington D.C. Read more.
“The AHA actively educates the public about Humanism, brings Humanists together for mutual support and action, defends the civil liberties and constitutional freedoms of Humanists-indeed of all peoples-and leads both local and national Humanist organizations toward progressive societal change.”
Registration information can be found here.
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2008 Oxford Literary Festival
March 20, 2008
Philip Pullman will be speaking at the Oxford Literary Festival Monday, 31st March to launch upcoming title Once Upon a Time in the North. “The book recounts the very first meeting of these two heroes – Lee Scoresby and his hare daemon, Hester, crash land their trading balloon on to Novy Odense, a port in the far Arctic North, and so find themselves right in the middle of a political powder keg that threatens to explode into a street-fight. Honour is at stake and Lee is not a man to duck a matter of honour.”
Tickets (£15, or £10 for children) are available at the Oxford Playhouse.
“Because he’s the honourable cowboy, the Western hero.”
March 20, 2008
Philip Pullman speaks to free lance journalist A.S.H. Smyth in this Tuesday’s Spectator about his upcoming book Once Upon a Time in the North and especially Lee Scoresby. Moving beyond God and towards British politics, globalisation, and the environment, Pullman arrives at a story where Lee and Iorek Byrnison, “finding that their interests mutually coincide with those of a Dutch merchant whose cargo has been illegally impounded, pool their strengths, automatically and almost wordlessly, in defence of the little man,” upon inspiration from The Magnificent Seven. Fans will also discover the origins of Lee’s balloon and Winchester rifle. Read more
Once Upon a Time in the North comes out April 3rd.
Emmerich Appointed New Line President
March 20, 2008
New Line Cinema, the production company behind The Golden Compass movie, have a new President. Toby Emmerich, previously a New Line production chief, has been named President and COO of the company and will be reporting directly to Alan Horn, President of Warner Bros, it was announced by Horn. Emmerich’s brief will be to reduce costs through extensive use of Warner Bros’ infrastructure. As a result of the restructuring, New Line will continue to retain all creative, development and production teams, while areas such as physical production, legal affairs and publicity will report directly to Emmerich in close conjunction with Warner Bros. There’s as yet no indication what this means for the future of the His Dark Materials film adaptations, but you can read the full story here.
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