Tag: william gibson
06.25.2008 Bumbershoot's Literary Lineup!
Bumbershoot is indeed Seattle’s Music & Arts Festival… but really, Bumbershoot is also a Music & SMARTS Festival. Case in point: all of the sweet literary artists and intelligentsia that flock to the Festival each year. This year you can get your music on, while holding true to your brainiac leanings by bragging about your time at Starlee Kine’s Post-It Note Reading Series, checking out comix artists Dan Clowes, Adrian Tomine and Ivan Brunetti, and need we even mention William Gibson, Sherman Alexie, Saul Williams, Chip Kidd or Edmund White? The 2008 literary arts lineup looks awesome; we’ll save you a seat. For a complete literary listing, visit bumbershoot.org/music-and-arts.htm.
06.12.2008 A playlist by William Gibson
The New York Times Paper Cuts Blog features “Living With Music,” an annotated playlist by William Gibson.
Gibson is slated to appear at Bumbershoot Monday, September 1, but with two of his ten picks (Neko Case and Lucinda Williams) set to perform on Saturday, perhaps we’ll see the renowned author a couple days early.
06.11.2008 Author William Gibson talks to IO9
William Gibson opens up to io9 about Godzilla and politics in between dissections of his techno-inspired novel Spook Country.
In Spook Country, old ideologies hang around and shape the initial phases of a longterm change that it will never be able to keep up with. The digital realm is inherently porous. These days we’re all coming to the attention of the authorities as a matter of course. But the really new thing is that the authorities are coming to our attention. It’s more difficult for authorities to keep their secrets.