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But there are moments when—depending on what neighborhood I’m in, or what city I’m in, or what channel on television I’m watching—my eyes get really wide and I go, “Chandler wasn’t even close. This shit is truly dire.”
—--william gibson in the avclub interview
actually practically every line in this interview is gold. this guy even talks cool.
teh link
it’s nice to read an interview with billy g where the interviewer appears to have some familiarity with his work and has actually thought up some legit questions.
also: tagline gold.
last comment, I promise. just had to call this out: “if you’re seeing characters operating on the outside of things that they can’t fully comprehend, then you’re seeing part of the zeitgeist, and I think you might also be seeing an emergent, new kind of realism, where the individuals that write books are willing to admit to themselves—and to some extent to the reader—that they don’t know what the hell is going on.”