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Amazing video of Russell Hoban giving a lecture on his writing and working processes in 1990. |
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Composer Adam Donen interviewed Russell Hoban a few months before his death. Here he talks about Orpheus, Riddley Walker, Beethoven, and "the feeling of being inhabited by the thing that looks out through our eye-holes." |
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 In the aquarium at the London Zoo, three sea turtles swim endlessly in 'their little bedsitter of ocean'. Two lonely people, William G and Neaera H, become obsessed with the turtles' captivity, and resolve to rescue them and release them in to the sea. William's and Neaera's diaries tell the story of how they achieve the turtles' freedom, and in the process re-define their own lives. |
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 In this young-adult novel, shaman Sixteen-Face John lives in a cold, snowy region referred to as "The North" and fears he's losing his way in the modern world. His unborn daughter Soonchild refuses to emerge, and John embarks on an fantastic adventure to bring the missing "World Songs" back to her to entice her into the world. |
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 The magic of the puppet show, says Professor K.A. Laity, is its ability to transform the inanimate into animation, to turn movement into story, and to bring to life all manner of dreams and stories. |
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Extensive profile of Russell Hoban by Nicholas Wroe, examining the author's life from his birth in Pennsylvania in 1925 via his army experiences, early books including The Mouse and His Child, his early novels, and on to Riddley Walker, later novels such as The Bat Tattoo, and the SA4QE event. |
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Interview from Stride magazine no. 26, 1986, in which Russell Hoban talks about the recent Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester production of Riddley Walker, and other topics. |
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Welcome to russellhoban.org, providing definitive information and the latest news about the late novelist Russell Hoban and his work.
Going underground
The Russell Hoban Some-Poasyum was the world's first (and so far, only) Russell Hoban international fan convention. Taking place in London on 11-13 February 2005, delegates from as far afield as New Zealand, the US and South Africa celebrated Russell's 80th birthday with tours of "Hoban's London" and Canterbury Cathedral, while Russell himself gave a reading from his latest novel Come Dance With Me. This bookmark, specially designed for the event by Olaf Schneider, uses the motif of London Underground posters, each one a cover of a different Hoban book.
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Russell Hoban (1925-2011) was an American writer most famous for his books Riddley Walker, The Mouse and His Child and the Frances books.
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russellhoban.org has a unique concordance to Russell Hoban's classic novel Riddley Walker, listing words in order of frequency, in order of occurrence in the text and sorted by right context.
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