During his stop in Toronto for Trinity College’s conference on children’s literature, Daphne Gordon had the opportunity to speak with Philip Pullman for the Toronto Star. The article describes His Dark Materials’ critics amid New Line’s large scale promotion of the upcoming film adapation, but the author also had the opportunity to discuss the books themselves. On the famous kiss in the Amber Spyglass, he says, ‘”I don’t describe anything more than a kiss. And I don’t think they did anything more than kiss,” he says. “People who have accused me of sexualizing them are people with fundamentally dirty minds; people who have forgotten the importance, the profundity of a kiss.”‘ Read more.