Jirgens, Karl E. “An Eye on Tomorrow: Interview with William Gibson.”

Rampike 11 22 Nov. 1999.

Interview with Gibson, with emphasis on Agrippa. (more…)

Holderness, Mike. “Vanishing Act Caught in the Net.”

Rev. of Agrippa: A Book of the Dead, by William Gibson. New Scientist 20 Mar. 1993: 45.

Article offers a short review of Agrippa and its early transcription on the net. (more…)

Hamburg, Victoria. “The King of Cyberspace: William Gibson Talks to Victoria Hamburg.”

Interview Jan. 1989: 86.

This article features an interview with William Gibson at the height of his cyberpunk fame. (more…)

Luckhurst, Roger. “Ending the Century: Literature and Digital Technology.”

Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature. Ed. Laura Marcus and Peter Nicholls. New York: Cambridge UP, 2004. 794-5.

This article offers an analysis of “Agrippa: A Book of the Dead” and considers it fully within the context of emerging literary trends. (more…)

Genomicart.com. “Dennis Ashbaugh.”

Paradise Now: Picturing the Genetic Revolution. Retrieved 31 August 2005. http://www.genomicart.org/ashbaugh.htm

This site features an artistic statement by Dennis Ashbaugh, as well as an image his “genomic” artwork “Bio-Gel (aka The Jolly Green Giant).” (more…)

Fein, Esther B. “Read It, and It’s Gone.”

Rev. of Agrippa: A Book of the Dead, by William Gibson. Book Notes, New York Times 18 Nov. 1992: C26.

Short item in the Book Notes column of the Times about the book (“and the word is used in the loosest sense possible”) contemporary to its release. Includes a description of the book and Gibson’s scrolling poem based on announcements from, and an interview with, the publisher. (more…)

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…)