Comments on: Ghost signs http://stevenpoole.net/articles/ghost-signs/ words & music Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:27:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Sam Roberts http://stevenpoole.net/articles/ghost-signs/#comment-1636 Sam Roberts Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:26:31 +0000 http://stevenpoole.net/articles/ghost-signs/#comment-1636 Great to see Ghost Signs featuring in this book, although I still haven't got round to buying it yet! <a href="http://www.ghostsigns.co.uk" rel="nofollow">www.ghostsigns.co.uk</a> Great to see Ghost Signs featuring in this book, although I still haven’t got round to buying it yet!

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]]> By: We’re Not Wired Right » Blog Archive » William Gibson at the CBC Book Club http://stevenpoole.net/articles/ghost-signs/#comment-142 We’re Not Wired Right » Blog Archive » William Gibson at the CBC Book Club Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:28:27 +0000 http://stevenpoole.net/articles/ghost-signs/#comment-142 [...] William Gibson’s stretched stooped figure curls over book and microphone under yellow lights that hang like a field of beauty salon hair dryers before an unlit neon sign tracing out the words Studio One on a wall deep within the bowels of the CBC. He has just returned from touring in the States and Europe, hitting a dozen cities in twice as many days while promoting his new novel, Spook Country. He is honed at this point. Listening to him read, you realize that this is how his writing is best taken in. He reads like a jazz musician plays his horn, echoing Kerouac and, of course, Burroughs in the way that the words fall into punched syncopated rhythms, sentences building into what has been described by one reviewer as “miniature aesthetic jolts”.  [...] [...] William Gibson’s stretched stooped figure curls over book and microphone under yellow lights that hang like a field of beauty salon hair dryers before an unlit neon sign tracing out the words Studio One on a wall deep within the bowels of the CBC. He has just returned from touring in the States and Europe, hitting a dozen cities in twice as many days while promoting his new novel, Spook Country. He is honed at this point. Listening to him read, you realize that this is how his writing is best taken in. He reads like a jazz musician plays his horn, echoing Kerouac and, of course, Burroughs in the way that the words fall into punched syncopated rhythms, sentences building into what has been described by one reviewer as “miniature aesthetic jolts”.  [...]

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