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Publisher's Weekly posts a Q&A;with Pullman on his upcoming novella Once Upon A Time In The North, hosted by Donna Freitas.

Philip Pullman is the author of the bestselling trilogy His Dark Materials (Knopf) and two short spin-off novels, Lyra’s Oxford, and coming this April, Once Upon a Time in the North, which follows the adventures of aeronaut Lee Scorseby and reveals how he meets the armored bear Iorek Byrnison. We spoke with Pullman on the phone from his home in Oxford.

The Times Online has an exclusive interview with author Philip Pullman on the upcoming novella Once Upon A Time In The North.

Philip Pullman has a new target in his sights. After taking on the Catholic Church - and scoring a not inconsiderable victory, if sales figures for his bestselling trilogy His Dark Materials are anything to go by - he is now pitting himself against a new enemy: multinational corporations.

The Yorkshire Post reports:

Sitting behind a huge oak table surrounded by priceless literary treasures, Philip Pullman is in his element.

New Wales News reports:

Philip Pullman, internationally known author of the His Dark Materials novels, one of which has just been filmed as The Golden Compass, will be joining other writers and academics at Bangor University, 9 February, for a celebration of literature at Bangor, entitled Upon My Word! This will be Philip Pullman's first engagement at Bangor since his recent appointment as an Honorary Professor at the University.

Telegraph.co.uk holds an engaging interview with Philip Pullman regarding the interaction between environmentalism and storytelling.

The Oxford Mail spoke with author Philip Pullman at the London premiere. They touched about various subjects, such as The Book of Dust (“could be released in 2009”), Once Upon A Time In The North and a new untitled green companion novel about Will’s story.

In His Dark Materials terminology, the Gyptian way of life can continue.

Councillors won a standing ovation tonight (11 December) when they threw out plans to build flats on the site of an historic Oxford boatyard.

On December 9th - only two days from today - Philip Pullman will be on UK cinemas screens, live via satellite, at 4.40pm, broadcast from Oxford's Phoenix Picturehouse cinema to 17 cinemas nationwide. See www.picturehouses.co.uk for more information about this fascinating and insightful live discussion, as well as a full theatre listing. This live event will explore The Golden Compass movie adaptation, the author's literary inspirations, and spirituality and esoteric wisdom. A rare treat inside the mind of a great modern fantasy writer.

Full theatre listing

TimesOnline reports: The British author Philip Pullman has attacked leading American Catholics as "nitwits" after they called for a boycott of The Golden Compass, which has its world premiere in London tonight.

Philip Pullman visited the Barnes & Noble Union Square in New York City, which HDM.org staff member JParry was lucky enough to attend. His write-up of the event, including photos, follows below. The event was filmed by Barnes & Noble, and is available for viewing at Barnes & Noble media.

Philip Pullman addressed several issues, including claims that the His Dark Material books are anti-Catholic and promote atheism, raised by readers of Al's Book Club on MSNBC. He also answers questions on how he imagined such an epic world and how he came up with the concept of dæmons. Thanks to IMDb.com user downinnewyork for bringing this to our attention.

Webblogger of educating alice was in attendance at the October 30th talk with Philip Pullman at The Times Center in New York. Her event write-up follows.

The Chicago Sun-Times has a couple of articles on Philip Pullman who will be a part of the Chicago Humanities Festival. He talks about the film ("It looks fabulous"), his critics, comparisons with Tolkien and C.S. Lewis and more:

• Author's next chapter 
• Questions of life and death

In August, our friends at the French His Dark Materials website, Cittàgazze.com conducted an interview with Pullman. Below is a transcript of the interview, which includes a number of interesting insights into Pullman's Oxford life and his work with The Golden Compass movie, and other great questions. Translation provided by Cittàgazze.com, with slight edits, from original source, as well as an English version.

Back in August, our friends from the Israeli HDM community HDM.co.il had a meeting and interview with His Dark Materials author Philip Pullman. The following is a write-up of the meeting and subsequent news gathered from speaking with the author. Interview conducted by Udi and Yeal. Translation from original copy provided by Udi, with some edits for clarity.