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Hammer Time

by Lidia Yuknavitch May 15, 2017 3 minutes

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NEIL GAIMAN VOICES MYTHS FROM THE NORTH.

“Norse Mythology”

Written and read by Neil Gaiman

6 1/2 hours

Admit it: Wouldn’t you love to have Neil Gaiman come to your home and read stories to you? Yeah, you would. Or I would anyway. Ideally in one of those glass-ceilinged igloos in some Scandinavian country. Specifically, I’d like him to read from the material that has so deeply informed the otherworlds of his phenomenal

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