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Here, political cartoonist Martin Rauson interviews fantasy writer Neil Gaiman about

horror, censorship, art and book burning.

I wanted to talk about various themes.

I wanted to talk about the visual and I wanted to talk about offense and ways they are in ways things are offensive and why they are in different ways.

And have you caught up with this nonsense over here about Hillary Mantel's short story of the assassination of Margaret Thatcher?

Yes, I thought it was wonderful.

I haven't read the story, but I read an interview with her and saw the thing from Sir Lord Emperor Bell.

Tim Bell.

I thought it was wonderful that column inches in newspapers were being given to a short story.

You know, there's part of you that goes as long as people are getting upset,

then a medium is not dead.

You know, as long as a poem could send the editor

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