William Gibson on loss and the fading of memory
Boing Boing revives William Gibson’s “Agrippa (A Book of the Dead),” a floppy disc poem that erased itself as you played it.
Boing Boing revives William Gibson’s “Agrippa (A Book of the Dead),” a floppy disc poem that erased itself as you played it.
“Held in the hand, a typical cuneiform tablet is about the same weight and shape as an early mobile phone.”
In honor of the 400th anniversary of Milton’s birth, Philip Pullman reads from Paradise Lost. Also, a quiz.
The earliest surviving letter from Oscar Wilde to his lover, Bosie, is among the Wilde papers newly donated to the Morgan library.
Mathias Enard’s novel, Zone, except for a few pages of flashbacks, consists of one 150,000-word sentence.