Selected Shorts: An Evening with Neil Gaiman

Much more than a fantasy author, Gaiman creates stories—be they novels, graphic novels, scripts or short works—that are appealingly dark and clever, and that reach for a level of myth that most modern writers wouldn't even consider. Tonight's series of shorts may include a bit from his 2013 novel about adolescence, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, which many consider to be his best.