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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.

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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.

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