Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes legendary author William Gibson to the store to discuss and sign his new book, Distrust That Particular Flavor, on Friday, January 20th at 7pm.
For nearly thirty years, William Gibson has been both chronicler and prophet of our transition into the digital era. His award-winning novels include Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive and Pattern Recognition. But throughout his storied career as a novelist, he has also been sought out by widely varying publications for his insights into contemporary culture, writings that are collected for the first time in Distrust That Particular Flavor. "Gibson writes about the present as if it were the future," says Lev Grossman, "as if he were a time traveler to whom everything seems fresh and new and strange... what Gibson has is a sense of the past; the past that our present is constantly, relentlessly becoming."
In addition to articles from major publications, the book includes journalism from small publishers, online sources, and magazines no longer in existence. It is essential reading for any lover of William Gibson's novels, and offers readers a privileged view into the mind of a writer whose thinking has shaped not only a generation of writers, but our entire culture.
