another Gibson interview

from Boing Boing, here: http://boingboing.net/2011/09/01/william-gibson-interview-boing-boing-exclusive.html

Lots of interesting stuff as usual, including: What things are keeping your interest lately? 

"The sheer surreality of the Republican presidential primary, Libya, Iain Sinclair's monolithic ongoing anti-Olympics project (Hackney, That Rose Red Empire and now Ghost Milk), the "gray man" concept in personal security, the culture of personal aerial drones, parts of the United States as newly undeveloped sub-nations and the foreign outsourcing thereof...
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(wow - two posts today!)

in line during William Gibson book tour

belated post:

2nd half of line in Brookline

William Gibson on fora.tv

Thanks to fora.tv, here is video of William Gibson reading an excerpt from Spook Country and handling questions during his book tour (at Codys).



A question about the influence of Joseph Cornell led me to find this WebMuseum site.

Gibson, a big favorite of mine for his cultural insights as well as his fiction, has been blogging his trip.

UPDATE: While we are on the topic of Gibson, here is a transcript of an interview with him in The Guardian, titled "Space to Think".