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Distrust that particular flavor
Record details
- ISBN: 039915843X (hbk.)
- ISBN: 9780399158438 (hbk.)
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Physical Description:
258 p. ; 22 cm.
print - Publisher: New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, c2012.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | African thumb piano -- Rocket radio -- Since 1948 -- Any 'mount of world -- The baddest dude on Earth -- Talk for Book Expo, New York -- Dead man sings -- Up the line -- Disneyland with the death penalty -- Mr. Buk's window -- Shiny balls of mud : Hikaru Dorodango and Tokyu hands -- An invitation -- Metrophagy : the art and science of digesting great cities -- Modern boys and mobile girls -- My obsession -- My own private Tokyo -- The road to Oceania -- Skip Spence's jeans -- Terminal city -- Introduction : "The body" -- The Net is a waste of time -- Time machine Cuba -- Will we have computer chips in our heads? -- William Gibson's filmless festival -- Johnny : notes on a process -- Googling the cyborg. |
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| Subject: | Popular culture Canadian essays |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Covington Branch | 818.54 G4515d 2012 (Text) | 33126017174750 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
A collection of nonfiction writings includes essays discussing the Singapore trial of a drug trafficker, what's wrong with the Internet, and and how music documents modern culture. - Baker & Taylor
A first collection of non-fiction writings by the best-selling author ofNeuromancer includes his Wired magazine article on the Singapore trial of a drug trafficker, his New York Times piece on what was wrong with the Internet and his Rolling Stone -published essay on the way music documents modern culture. - Baker & Taylor
Known primarily as a novelist, Gibson has, over thirty years, been approached by different publication to share his insights into contemporary culture. The resulting essays are collected here for the first time. - Penguin Putnam
William Gibson is known primarily as a novelist, with his work ranging from his groundbreaking first novel, Neuromancer, to his more recent contemporary bestsellers Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, and Zero History. During those nearly thirty years, though, Gibson has been sought out by widely varying publications for his insights into contemporary culture. Wired magazine sent him to Singapore to report on one of the world's most buttoned-up states. The New York Times Magazine asked him to describe what was wrong with the Internet. Rolling Stone published his essay on the ways our lives are all "soundtracked" by the music and the culture around us. And in a speech at the 2010 Book Expo, he memorably described the interactive relationship between writer and reader.
These essays and articles have never been collected-until now. Some have never appeared in print at all. In addition, Distrust That Particular Flavor includes journalism from small publishers, online sources, and magazines no longer in existence. This volume will be essential reading for any lover of William Gibson's novels. Distrust That Particular Flavor offers readers a privileged view into the mind of a writer whose thinking has shaped not only a generation of writers but our entire culture.