Ehrenman, Gayle C. “Write Once, Read Once Literature.”

PC Magazine 11 (1992): 34 (1).

Article offers commentary regarding the ephemeral character of the poem’s content and the technology platform itself. (more…)

Edwards, Gavin. “A Real Page Burner.”

Review of Agrippa: A Book of the Dead, by William Gibson. Details June 1992. Retrieved 31 Aug. 2005. http://www.textfiles.com/sf/cyberlit.txt

Interesting review of Agrippa: a Book of the Dead, particularly in its claims about the book’s appearance and text, which seem to differ from other accounts. (more…)

Chollet, Laurence. “William Gibson’s Second Sight in Meetings of Man and Machine, Ecstacy and Dread, the Cyberpunk Guru Divines the Future.”

Los Angeles Times Magazine 12 Sept. 1993: 34.

Article offers a discussion of Gibson’s novel Virtual Light. Although the article primarily deals with other work by Gibson, it includes a few comments on Agrippa. (more…)

Chollet, Laurence. “It’s The Story You Just Can’t Forget — This Book Is Read On A Computer — and One Time Only.”

Rev. of Agrippa: A Book of the Dead, by William Gibson. The Record 17 May 1992. Retrieved 31 August 2005. http://www.highbeam.com/library/

This article emphasizes the work’s ephemeral nature and discusses the genesis of the project, apparently from a chance meeting at an art and technology fair in Barcelona, Spain, and offers some commentary from Gibson. (more…)

Center for Book Arts.org. “Dennis Ashbaugh.”

Retrieved 31 August 2005. http://www.centerforbookarts.org/archive/bio.asp?artistID=436

CBA site offers some brief biographical information about Dennis Ashbaugh. (more…)

Center for Book Arts.org. “Agrippa: (a book of the dead).”

Retrieved 31 Aug. 2005. http://www.centerforbookarts.org/archive/showdetail.asp?showID=62

CBA site offers a description of Agrippa. (more…)

Cavallaro, Dani. Cyberpunk and Cyberculture: Science Fiction and the Work of William Gibson.

London: Athlone Press, 2000.

This book considers the expression and ramifications of cyberpunk, with special emphasis on William Gibson’s work, including Agrippa. (more…)

Calcutt, Andrew and Shephard, Richard. Cult Fiction: a Reader’s Guide.

Lincolnwood, IL: Contemporary Books, 1999.

This book includes a section on Gibson’s work and offers a brief biography of the author. (more…)

Bukatman, Scott. “Gibson’s Typewriter.”

South Atlantic Quarterly Fall (1993): 627-645.

Article considers Gibson’s use of the typewriter in the process of writing Neuromancer, paying particular attention to the ways in which representations of earlier machine culture anticipated representations of cyberculture. (more…)

Brummett, Barry. The World and How We Describe It: Rhetorics of Reality, Representation, Simulation.

Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2003.

Includes a chapter on “A Rhetoric of Reality in the Novels of William Gibson.” (more…)