Literature
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“I don’t think a great book has yet been written on computer”
Writers’ rooms: JG Ballard Distrusting computers, the science fiction writer JG Ballard wrote the first drafts of his novels by hand before finishing them off on a typewriter: “On the desk is my old manual typewriter, which I recently found in my stair cupboard. I was inspired by a letter from Will Self, who wrote >>>
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Beating the Event Horizon
Interviewed by Phillip Dodd for BBC Radio 3’s Nightwaves last night, novelist William Gibson talked about the difficulties of writing in an age in which history has its finger pressed down firmly on the fast-forward button – not a cliché in 1984 when it appeared in Neuromancer – with no letting up in sight. Gibson >>>