Alan Moore discusses his new book Illuminations, in conversation with Matt Bell.

This event will be on Saturday, October 15th, hosted by the Wisconsin Book Festival on their Crowdcast channel, at 10:30am Central time (11:30am Eastern time).

This event is free and available to all virtually via Crowdcast at the following link: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/wbf-illuminations/register

In ILLUMINATIONS, Alan Moore, the international bestselling author of From Hell and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and other modern classics, shares nine stories full of wonder and strangeness, which take us to the fantastical underside of reality. This is his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work and features many never-before-published pieces.

Publishers Weekly named it a Top 10 SF, Fantasy & Horror in the fall announcements issue and gave it a starred review, and Neil Gaiman offers this early praise:

“Illuminations is a wonderful collection, brilliant and often moving … managing to be both mind-expanding and cosmic while utterly rooted in our urban reality, written in language that coruscates, concatenates and glitters. But the short stories in this book also turn out to be a sort of camouflage, or a frame, for ‘What We Can Know About Thunderman,’ a short novel that's a scabrous, monstrous, often hilarious, unmasking and reinvention of the people who made the comics, and the lives destroyed by the four colour funnies. It's Alan Moore's Guernica, a time-hopping ontological Imaginary Story that refuses to leave your head after you've read it.” —Neil Gaiman

Alan Moore is an English writer widely regarded as the best and most influential writer in the history of comics. His seminal works include From Hell and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. He is also the author of the bestselling Jerusalem. He was born in Northampton, and has lived there ever since.