Neil Gaiman on Terry Pratchett: 'He Did Something Huge and Noble'

Whatever else Neil Gaiman had intended to talk about with fellow writer Michael Chabon onstage at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco Thursday night, it was upended by the death of his close friend, the English fantasy writer Sir Terry Pratchett. "It was a horrible morning," he said, describing how he learned of Pratchett's death that day from his wife, Amanda Palmer. "I was so pleased that she was the one of us who had gone onto her phone first... and that I got to hear it from a human...