Our culture elevates “the film adaptation” as the ultimate honour a novel could achieve -- but a film adaptation seems positively lame compared to a renegade six-hour reading of your novel in a gallery, featuring among others, “crossover appeal” porn star Sasha Grey.
That’s what’s happening to William Gibson’s Neuromancer on Nov. 22 at New York’s New Museum. Artist Brody Condon created the event and cast guest stars such as Grey, who will be evoking the character “Molly.”
It’s a perfect appearance for Grey, who has become this year’s subject with which to gauge conversational hypocrisy. She was great in Steven Soderbergh’s underrated and quietly unsettling film The Girlfriend Experience.
According to Gibson’s Twitter entry about the event, “Gol' dang! It's news to me!”
