William
Gibson
The
One Book Every Man Should Read
The
master of sci-fi has a recommendation.
By Camille Perri
on October 30, 2014
The best-selling
science-fiction writer known for predicting the Internet, social media, 3-D
printing, drones, and a mind-blowing number of other technological developments
(years before they came into being!) tells us what we should be reading. Part
of a series.
What one book should every
man read?
If only one, something by a
woman would probably be a good idea. The Handmaid's Tale, by
Margaret Atwood, say. Good for any man to read that.
If you could have a drink
with any writer, living or dead, who would it be, where would you go, what
would you order, and what would you talk about?
Jorge Luis Borges, a cafe
in Buenos Aires, espresso, and I would listen carefully to absolutely anything
he might care to say.
What's the most valuable
lesson you've learned from a book?
I agree with E.M. Forster,
that any didactic impulse on an author's part entirely lowers the tone of
fiction. I don't believe that a fascist can write a good novel; they're too
strong on guidance. In my formative years I read fiction as an antidote to
guidance of various kinds. And it evidently worked, I'm happy to say.
What book were you
surprised you loved, or hated, or what book are you ashamed you've never read?
I can't think of anything
I've ever read that I was strongly expecting not to like (I'm terrible, that
way). I found Raymond Chandler puritanical, when everyone I knew seemed to
think I'd love him. It's entirely possible that many of the books I haven't
read because I haven't thought I'd like them are actually quite good,
but...
What are you reading next?
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell.
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