William Gibson Books

William Gibson Books


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	Zero History: Buy it: Hardcover More Info | Book Video Hollis Henry is an investigative journalist, on assignment from a magazine called Node. Node doesn't exist yet, which is fine; she's used to that. more...
	Spook Country: Buy it: Hardcover | Paperback More Info Tito is in his early twenties. Born in Cuba, he speaks fluent Russian, lives in one room in a NoLita warehouse, and does delicate jobs involving information transfer. more...
	Pattern Recognition: Buy it: Paperback | Hardcover More Info | Read an Excerpt PATTERN RECOGNITION is William Gibson's best book since he rewrote all the rules in NEUROMANCER. - Neil Gaiman more...
	Neuromancer: Buy it: Hardcover | Paperback | Mass Market More Info | Read an Excerpt Here is the novel that started it all, launching the cyberpunk generation, and the first novel to win the holy trinity of science fiction: the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award and the Philip K. Dick Award. With Neuromancer, William Gibson introduced the world to cyberspace--and science fiction has never been the same. more...
	Idoru: Buy it: Hardcover | Paperback | Mass Market More Info | Read an Excerpt The author of the ground-breaking science-fiction novels Neuromancer and Virtual Light returns with a fast-paced, high-density, cyber-punk thriller. more...
	All Tomorrow's Parties: Buy it: Hardcover | Paperback | Mass Market More Info | Read an Excerpt William Gibson, who predicted the Internet with Neuromancer, takes us into the millennium with a brilliant new novel about the moments in history when futures are born. more...
	Count Zero: Buy it: Mass Market More Info | Read an Excerpt A stylish, streetsmart, frighteningly probable parable of the future and sequel to Neuromancer. more...

Other Gibson Titles Burning Chrome Mona Lisa Overdrive Johnny Mnemonic: The Screenplay The Difference Engine [with Bruce Sterling] Virtual Light

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13th annual Random House Book Fair

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Books and book lovers are in plentiful supply at the 13th annual Random House Book Fair. The two-day affair is happening now, Friday, and Saturday, March 5 and 6 at Carroll Community College, 1601 Washington Road, Westminster. For more information and a complete schedule see the February 28 Carroll Eagle: http://www.explorecarroll.com/news/3993/chapter-verse/ Photo by Kevin Dayhoff March 5, 2010

20100305 13th annual Random House Book Fair Annual Random House CCC Book Fair, Art Library authors, Colleges Carroll Community College

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Z on TV

Z on TV

I do not watch much of “Top 40” commercial television; however I have come to appreciate David Zurawik’s commentary on the contemporary pop-culture scene on the tube. It is intelligent and informative and keeps me up-to-date without having the dreadful experience of having to watch it.

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I've been The Baltimore Sun's TV critic since 1989. My writings on TV and media have appeared in such publications as TV Guide, Esquire magazine and American Journalism Review.

I have a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park, and an M.A. in specialized reporting (on popular culture) from the University of Wisconsin.

I'm the author of The Jews of Prime Time (Brandeis University Press), a look at 50 years of Jewish characters and identity on network TV. I have also been with WYPR-FM (88.1) radio since 1994 and can be heard Thursday mornings at 7:30 doing a weekly "Take on Television" report.

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/zontv/

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/zontv/

Recent posts by Mr. Zurawik:

White House war on Fox: Echoes of Nixon-Agnew

President Obama again the target of 'SNL' satire

'Law & Order' rips family reality shows (Think TLC)

This weekend with 'Reliable Sources,' 'Law & Order'

Wedding gives NBC's 'The Office' only a bump

Fall TV: Networks start naming winners, losers

Here's a stretch: Kate Gosselin plays angry 'mom'

Despite PR blitz, 'Jon & Kate' ratings still suffer

CNN features kids singing for healthcare reform

Jon Gosselin meets Nancy Grace, and it isn't pretty

Zurawik David 20091011 About David Zurawik

Art Library authors, Art Library writer profiles, Journalists, Journalists Zurawik-David, Media TV

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Irving Kristol Dies at 89

Irving Kristol Dies at 89

Irving Kristol, Architect of Neoconservatism, Dies at 89 http://tinyurl.com/ltl2kz

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Adam Bernstein The Washington Post Friday, September 18, 2009

Irving Kristol, 89, a forceful essayist, editor and university professor who became the leading architect of neoconservatism, which he called a political and intellectual movement for disaffected ex-liberals like himself who had been "mugged by reality,... Read Full Article

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Joan Didion “Her prose is her servant”

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Technically, Didion is immaculate and original. As early as 1963, literary critic Guy Davenport could say, "Her prose is her servant" (371). She understands grammar as a source of "infinite power":

To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the meaning of the object photographed.... The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture in your mind.... The picture tells you how to arrange the words and the arrangement of the words tells you, or tells me, what's going on in the picture. (Didion 1986, 7)

“If I could believe that going to a barricade would affect man's fate in the slightest I would go to that barricade, and quite often I wish that I could, but it would be less than honest to say that I expect to happen upon such a happy ending” Joan Didion, Morning, After the Sixties 1979 p208

From “Joan Didion” by Sandra Braman
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~despey/didion.htm
Retrieved September 9, 2009
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Linda Collison: “Star-Crossed”

Posted August 11, 2009

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Linda Collison’s - my Westminster High School Class of 1971 classmate - first novel, Star-Crossed (Knopf; 06) was chosen by the New York Public Library to be among the Books for the Teen Age -- 2007. For more information: http://www.lindacollison.com/

According to published materials:

“The novel was inspired by the three weeks she spent aboard the HM Bark Endeavour, a replica of Captain James Cook's 18th century ship. Linda is a mother and grandmother, and at long last chatelaine of her castle…

“Linda Collison is a jack of all trades and master of none, just as her mother feared she would become.

“Linda has managed to kluge a composite career, making a living as a registered nurse, skydiving instructor, waitress and shoemaker, to name a few of her occupations.

“She has published in a wide and sundry assortment of publications, from literary magazines to Ladies Home Journal.

“In 1992 her life changed dramatically (again!) when she married fellow skydiver Bob Russell. With Bob she wrote two guidebooks, Rocky Mountain Wineries; a travel guide to the wayside vineyards and Colorado Kids; a statewide family outdoor adventure guide (both books by Pruett Publishing.)”

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Thornton Niven Wilder was born April 17, 1897, in Madison, Wisconsin.

Thornton Niven Wilder was born April 17, 1897, in Madison, Wisconsin.

“This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our dying.” “Our Town,” Act 1 - Thornton Niven Wilder was born April 17, 1897, in Madison, Wisconsin.

Library of Congress Today in History: April 17

Thornton Niven Wilder was born April 17, 1897, in Madison, Wisconsin. Arguably one of the greatest playwrights of the twentieth century, Wilder is the only writer to win Pulitzer Prizes for both literature and drama.

Son of a U.S. diplomat, Wilder spent part of his childhood in China. After serving in the Coast Guard during World War I, he earned his B.A. at Yale University in 1920. Six years later, his first novel, The Cabala was published. In 1927, The Bridge of San Luis Rey brought commercial success and his first Pulitzer Prize. From 1930 to 1937 he taught at the University of Chicago.

Wilder's dramatic works include the Pulitzer Prize winning plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth. Set in fictional Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, Our Town (1938) employs a choric narrator called the "Stage Manager," and a minimalist set to underscore the universality of human experience. The Skin of Our Teeth debuted in 1942 with Frederic March and Talullah Bankhead in the lead roles. The themes are familiar—war, pestilence, economic depression, and fire. Ignoring the limits of time and space, just four main characters and three acts are used to review the history of mankind.

Wilder authored seven novels, three major full-length plays, as well as a variety of shorter works including essays, one-act plays, and scholarly articles. Greatly transformed, his play The Matchmaker became the Broadway and film hit Hello, Dolly!. His last novel, Theophilus North, was published in 1973. Wilder died in his sleep on December 7, 1975.

Wilder is just one of forty-one authors and playwrights photographed by Carl Van Vechten and available in Creative Americans: Portraits by Carl Van Vechten, 1932-1964. Also available is a biography of Van Vechten.

Search the Today in History Archive on writer to find additional features on American authors including pages on Wilder's contemporary F. Scott Fitzgerald and his good friend Gertrude Stein.

See what Wilder's contemporaries such as Orson Welles were doing in the theater. Visit the collection The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project. Read four illustrated articles on the project to learn more about innovative theater of the 1930s.

To develop a bibliography of works by and about Thornton Wilder, use the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Choose Basic Search then enter the term Wilder, Thornton. Do an Author/Creator Browse to find a list of works by Wilder, or a Subject Browse to find a list of works about him.

Visit the Pulitzer Prize Web site for a list of the most recent prizewinners as well as winners from years past.

Library of Congress Today in History: April 17 http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html

Thornton Wilder as Mr. Antrobus in The Skin of Your [Our] Teeth,
Carl Van Vechten, photographer, August 18, 1948.

Creative Americans: Portraits by Carl Van Vechten, 1932-1964

18970417 LOC Thornton Wilder born in Madison Wisconsin
Art Library authors, Art Library Wilder Thorton, History This Day in History,

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“Is Rand Relevant?”

“Is Rand Relevant?” By YARON BROOK WSJ MARCH 14, 2009 http://tinyurl.com/d7prj3

“Ayn Rand died more than a quarter of a century ago, yet her name appears regularly in discussions of our current economic turmoil. Pundits including Rush Limbaugh and Rick Santelli urge listeners to read her books, and her magnum opus, "Atlas Shrugged," is selling at a faster rate today than at any time during its 51-year history.

“There's a reason. In "Atlas," Rand tells the story of the U.S. economy crumbling under the weight of crushing government interventions and regulations. Meanwhile, blaming greed and the free market, Washington responds with more controls that only deepen the crisis. Sound familiar?”

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20090314 Atlas Shrugged Is Rand Relevant By Yaron Brook WSJ

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C Span2 Book TV Almost Astronauts by Tanya Lee Stone

C Span2 Book TV Almost Astronauts by Tanya Lee Stone

Watching C-Span2 Book TV: History Almost Astronauts: Thirteen Women Who Dared to Dream Author: Tanya Lee Stone This program began at 4:00 PM and last for 50 min http://www.booktv.org/schedule.aspx

“Tanya Lee Stone recounts the thirteen women who trained to become astronauts in 1960, many years before the first woman would be accepted into the NASA program. Known as the "Mercury 13" all the women passed their required tests but ultimately had their career advancement blocked due to what the author posits was gender prejudice. Ms. Stone's book is written for a young adult audience and she presents it to a class of students at Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, DC.”

About the Author Tanya Lee Stone is the author of close to ninety books for young readers, including "Up Close: Ella Fitzgerald" and "Elizabeth Leads the Way."

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20090329 C Span2 Book TV Almost Astronauts by Tanya Lee Stone

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