The remarkable thing about Distrust That Particular Flavor, William Gibson’s debut essay collection, is that it was so long in coming, collecting two-and-a-half decades’ worth of nonfiction, opinion, travelogue, memoir, media theory, speeches, criticism, and miscellania. Because although Gibson disclaims any title to being an essayist — he says in his introduction that writing nonfiction always felt like cheating on his fiction work — he’s awfully good at it. via Boing Boing
January 3, 2012
