Rick Rubin, Hubertus Bigend

I'm making my way through the last-but-one William Gibson novel, Pattern Recognition (2003), and finding it good but not quite up to the level of his new book, Spook Country. Still, Gibson has a knack for evoking, in a way that doesn't make the reader necessarily feel way or another, the kind of power and control which the very rich and very talented can carry with them. Hubertus Bigend, a character shared by the two novels, is an archetypal in this respect, but fictional successor to many other, earlier Gibson characters. And but so, this long, engrossing profile of the record producer Rick Rubin makes him sound like a Gibson character - especially a character from a Gibson novel set in the present day, like PR and SC. Highly recommended.

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