William L. Gibson is an author and researcher based in Southeast Asia.
Keramat, Sacred Relics and Forbidden Idols in Singapore was published by Routledge as part of their Contemporary Southeast Asia series in 2024. This work is an outcome of William's 2022 Lee Kong Chian Research Fellowship at the National Library of Singapore.
Alfred Raquez and the French Experience of the Far East, 1898-1906, a biography of journalist and explorer Alfred Raquez is published by Routledge as part of their Studies in the Modern History of Asia series. In the Land of Pagodas and Laotian Pages, translations with Paul Bruthiaux of Raquez's travels through China and Laos at the turn of the century, are available from National University of Singapore Press.
William's trilogy of hard-boiled crime novels set in 1890s Singapore is published by Monsoon Books.
His articles have appeared in Signal to Noise, PopMatters.com, The Mekong Review, Archipel, History and Anthropology, the Bulletin de l’École française d’Extrême- Orient and BiblioAsia, among others.
Third World Skull Candy occasionally releases sound-art built from occasional sound and can be found on streaming services and SoundCloud:
https://soundcloud.com/drg-supreme/sets/drg-supremes-popular-favorite
Follow: http://drgblogsupreme.wordpress.com
https://sim.academia.edu/WilliamGibson