In an article for Wired in 1999, William Gibson idly mentions a coffee shop in Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar. It sounds like a typical Turkish cafe, except for the fact that it’s been open “twenty-four hours a day, three hundred and sixty-five days a year, literally for centuries.” Gibson does not linger on the subject. As […] The Archbishop’s Library
In an article for Wired in 1999, William Gibson idly mentions a coffee shop in Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar. It sounds like a typical Turkish cafe, except for the fact that it’s been open “twenty-four hours a day, three hundred and sixty-five days a year, literally for centuries.” Gibson does not linger on the subject. As […] 


