Tom Bissell
Tom Bissell
Tom Bissellis an American journalist, critic, and fiction writer, originally from Escanaba, Michigan, and currently based in Los Angeles, California...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
CountryUnited States of America
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Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer-so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible.
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Girlfriends, indeed: the anti-video game.
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Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom.
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I like reading books with both hands, with my heart pumping, with blood on the page. So I'm interested in people who make stuff, and I'm interested in the lives that make the text. To read a book or watch a movie any other way, to me, personally, feels like a waste of time and misapplication of energy.
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Often the art in a video game is like glorified Thomas Kinkade, but some of it is genuinely enchanting and compelling.
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All video games are games, obviously. They're designed. They're digital. They have rules; they give an audience some type of vicarious experience.
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Games tell stories best when they're elliptical and ambiguous and there's a sense of roaming and freedom.
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Here's what I just realized: A world in which sport at its best is not seen as some kind of art is a world that doesn't deserve any art.
I don't know how video game narrative works.
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I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.
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I'm an Old Media guy. I don't have a website; I don't Twitter. I love magazines, yet I love video games. It's a strange disconnect.
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The average action game doesn't much traffic in thematic grandiosity, but the BioShock games are different.
games
The kinds of games I'm most interested in are narrative games.
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The underwater businessman philosopher Andrew Ryan was BioShock's unforgettable villain.