ozarque (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ozarque) wrote,@ 2007-08-22 07:33:00 |
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Recommended link; interview with William Gibson...
Powell's Books has an excellent long interview with William Gibson, conducted by Jill Owens, titled "William Gibson Country," at http://tinyurl.com/2wx983. Enthusiastically recommended. Here's a sample, to show you the tone and flavor...
"When I was a kid, we had this huge eight-foot-tall homemade bookcase in the hallway upstairs that had decades and decades and decades of National Geographic, back to the old ones that didn't even have yellow spines. They came with the house; it had been my grandmother's house. And every night I would take a five-inch stack of those to bed and go through them. I did that from ages six to sixteen. I think that probably had some profound, unimaginable effect on me because I had this sense of all these different places, and it was almost entirely visual. I doubt that I ever read much more than the captions on the photographs."
Powell's Books has an excellent long interview with William Gibson, conducted by Jill Owens, titled "William Gibson Country," at http://tinyurl.com/2wx983. Enthusiastically recommended. Here's a sample, to show you the tone and flavor...
"When I was a kid, we had this huge eight-foot-tall homemade bookcase in the hallway upstairs that had decades and decades and decades of National Geographic, back to the old ones that didn't even have yellow spines. They came with the house; it had been my grandmother's house. And every night I would take a five-inch stack of those to bed and go through them. I did that from ages six to sixteen. I think that probably had some profound, unimaginable effect on me because I had this sense of all these different places, and it was almost entirely visual. I doubt that I ever read much more than the captions on the photographs."
