{"id":815,"date":"2011-10-20T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/10\/novelist-neal-stephenson.html"},"modified":"2011-10-20T07:50:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T14:50:00","slug":"novelist-neal-stephenson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/10\/novelist-neal-stephenson.html","title":{"rendered":"Novelist Neal Stephenson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-KMSuNLBY56w\/TqBDGViRzSI\/AAAAAAAABLs\/rHoSFx9qPkA\/s1600\/Neal+Stephenson+photo.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"256\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-KMSuNLBY56w\/TqBDGViRzSI\/AAAAAAAABLs\/rHoSFx9qPkA\/s320\/Neal+Stephenson+photo.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a>ONE of the smartest, as well as the toughest, writers I&#8217;ve ever encountered in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nealstephenson.com\/\">Neal Stephenson<\/a>, who is somewhere between a cyberpunk writer, a science-fiction novelist and a cultural historian.<\/p>\n<p>I met Stephenson, who has a new novel out, in his hometown of Seattle just before the publication of Anathem. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/arts\/la-et-stephenson15-2008sep15,0,5056836.story\">HERE<\/a> is my interview with the author of <i>Snow Crash<\/i> and <i>The Baroque Triology<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>One of <i>Anathem<\/i>&#8216;s observations seems more and more true to me as we move into the future.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-nyArVpPD-N0\/TqBDMmZ29aI\/AAAAAAAABL0\/_R1UL4eS3XA\/s1600\/Reamde_stephenson_williammorrow_2011.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-nyArVpPD-N0\/TqBDMmZ29aI\/AAAAAAAABL0\/_R1UL4eS3XA\/s1600\/Reamde_stephenson_williammorrow_2011.jpg\"><\/a><br \/><span>&#8220;That idea kept coming back to me, because it still seemed fresh,&#8221; Stephenson said, &#8220;the idea that book-reading people were more and more diverging from the mainstream, that they&#8217;re a separate culture invisible to media culture.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span><br \/><\/span><br \/><span>And here is a Salon\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2011\/09\/18\/stephenson_reamde\/\">review<\/a> of his new thriller, <i>Readme<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ONE of the smartest, as well as the toughest, writers I&#8217;ve ever encountered in Neal Stephenson, who is somewhere between a cyberpunk writer, a science-fiction novelist and a cultural historian. I met Stephenson, who has a new novel out, in his hometown of Seattle just before the publication of Anathem. HERE is my interview with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,137,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-literary","7":"category-science-fiction","8":"category-west-coast","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}