Unclassifiable: Part One of an Interview with Tom Bissell
I met Tom Bissell in 2007 when we both lived in Rome. I had read his story collection God Lives in St. Petersburg and liked it, and as we became friends I couldn’t understand why this guy would want to...
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Tom Bissell I met Tom Bissell in 2007 when we both lived in Rome. I had read his story collection God Lives in St. Petersburg and liked it, and as we became friends I couldn’t understand why this guy...
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André Aciman frames his new novel, Harvard Square (W.W. Norton), with a college visit that the unnamed narrator makes with his son. “I’m so not into this,” the boy says, bored senseless by his...
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For the last several years, we’ve periodically explored the intersections between fiction and video games in these pixilated pages–they are, after all, both narrative art forms. Back in 2009, we...
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