Scarlett Thomas admires Gibson’s Zero History
“To read William Gibson is to read the present as if it were the future,” says Scarlett Thomas, because “the present is becoming the future faster than it is becoming the past.”
“To read William Gibson is to read the present as if it were the future,” says Scarlett Thomas, because “the present is becoming the future faster than it is becoming the past.”
William Boyd visits Elizabeth Bishop’s home(s) in Brazil, and reflects on her poetry and alcoholism, and her love for self-taught architect Lota Soares. (Via.)
Elizabeth Jenkins, a novelist and biographer whose work garnered the admiration of Hilary Mantel and Virginia Woolf, among others, has died at age 104.
Apart from the occasional Twitter flurry, I’m really only doing one thing in my free time these days (getting closer, thanks for asking). With a few exceptions. Next Wednesday, September 15, I’ll ask Rosecrans Baldwin some questions following a reading from his smart, taut, very accomplished first novel, You Lost Me There, about a scientist whose memories of his screenwriter . . .
Spilling the beans, the apple of my eye, salad days: Lisa Bramen investigates the origins of food idioms. (Via.)