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Distrust That Particular Flavor: William Gibson’s long-overdue essay collection

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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

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