Alan Moore in conversation with Heather Parry

Alan Moore in conversation with Heather Parry for Book Week Scotland 2023. This event was live-recorded on 19 November 2023.
Join Alan Moore, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of comics, as he discusses his new short story collection Illuminations with Heather Parry. Alan, creator of Lost Girls, From Hell and The League of Extraordinary Gentleman, and Heather, author of Orpheus Builds a Girl and This is my Body, Given to You, will discuss his illustrious career to date and points of connection across their works.
About Alan Moore
Alan Moore, born in Northampton in 1953, is a writer, performer, recording artist, activist and magician. His comic-book work includes Lost Girls (2009) with Melinda Gebbie, From Hell (1991) with Eddie Campbell and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (for which he won a Bram Stoker Award in 2000) with Kevin O’Neill. He has worked with director Mitch Jenkins on the Show Pieces cycle of short films and on the feature film The Show, while his novels include Voice of the Fire (1996) and his epic Jerusalem (2016). A short story collection Illuminations (2022) and his forthcoming Long London series of novels are from Bloomsbury. He lives in Northampton with his wife and collaborator Melinda Gebbie.
About Heather Parry
Heather Parry is a fiction writer and editor originally from Rotherham, South Yorkshire. She is the co-founder and Editorial Director of Extra Teeth magazine, co-host of the Teenage Scream podcast and the Scottish Senior Policy & Liaison Manager for the Society of Authors, a trade union for writers. In 2021 she created the free-access Illustrated Freelancer’s Guide with artist Maria Stoian. She won the 2016 Bridge Award for an Emerging Writer, Cove Park's 2017 Emerging Writer residency, the Laxfield Literary Launch Prize in 2021 and was a Hawthornden Fellow in 2021. Her short stories and nonfiction have been published internationally and her debut novel, Orpheus Builds a Girl, was released in October 2022 by Gallic Books, and her short story collection - This Is My Body, Given For You was published by Haunt Publishing in 2023.
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[@aizugaruda]

As brazilian I'd to say that yes, Alan saved Brazil! Thanks Alan for your art, writing and your insightful thoughts that inspire us all!

[@gunkwretch3697]

Always great to hear Alan Moore.....

[@nickshingler5361]

Alan is interesting, illuminating, and as funny as always. Can't someone follow and record him for a weekly podcast (with his knownledge and consent of course)? Belated Happy Birthday Alan!

[@dionysiaex5538]

Alan's point about horror writing resonated with me a lot. Existence itself is terrifying for many people (and only made more so by the political and economic worlds and their consequences) and so artificially creating horror scenarios seems entirely beside the point.

[@uziao]

Thank you from Brasil!❤

[@RocketKiss]

happy birthday mr. moore

[@JhonataPactio]

Passando aqui para deixar um beijo para esse barbudo. Alan Moore "Salvador do Brasil".

[@warlockofwordschannel7901]

With all this superhero saturation & fatigue, we need things like Thunderman and Pat and Kevin's Marshal Law more than ever.

[@michaelburns5122]

Uncle Alan ❤

[@ekurisona663]

alan pronounced synecdoche correctly - and there's a tremendous film by charlie kaufman by the same name with philip seymour hoffman that seemingly no one saw or remembers - a truly poingnant film

[@RaymondConlon25]

I think about it every other week, friend ❤

[@warlockofwordschannel7901]

That film is one of the first things I think of whenever I read the word synecdoche.

[@dionysiaex5538]

I saw it a couple of weeks ago in watching a series of films about nihilism.

[@JasonPilley]

Personally I don't think Dali was a fascist, I think he was only and always a Dali-ist and he said whatever shocking shit would draw attention Dali-wards.

[@warlockofwordschannel7901]

Good point.

[@debbiechapnick5373]

I understand how you feel about Dali. I had a similar problem when I found out that Degas was a nazi sympathizer.

[@Tretas.]

He passed away 3 years before the party was formed. I think you meant anti-semite, due to his stance regarding the Dreyfus Affair.

[@Duda_Daher]

Alan Moore nunca esteve errado

[@narcolepticartist-paigevol4858]

Has he ever read Manga?

[@Tretas.]

There's nothing indicating otherwise. Astroboy even did a cameo in LoEG, for instance.

[@KarlThompson-s7f]

He made mention in an article he wrote in Marvel UK back in about 81/82. I don't have the issue to hand to check but it highlighted the fact that there was a difference in attitude he liked.

[@TonySopranoXXXXX]

@@KarlThompson-s7f I discovered that Alan Moore will write another comic about magic and the occult, I hope this makes him want to return to DC Comics, and write Twilight of Superheroes, given that the protagonist is John Constantine, a magician expert in occultism.

[@saintsataniko2116]

I feel like if you have subtitles the need for a deaf interpreter is superfluous and a distraction.

[@NerdySabbath]

Most people jus listen to the audio, you're jus whiney

[@thenumbdave]

the subtitles are automatically generated and can't handle Alan's accent.

[@dai19721]

why is there a deaf person there...just put subtitles on .