“ Sport-based video games occupy an odd space within the sphere of modern home entertainment. Reliably enjoyed by millions, the sport-based video game stands at what sometimes feels like an oblique angl… Tom Bissell
“ Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom. Tom Bissell
“ We are no longer worried that children are missing school because of video games, though. We are worried that they are murdering their classmates because of video games. Tom Bissell
“ I think the highest purpose of fiction is to show that all people are fundamentally worthy of mercy. Tom Bissell
“ The suicide John Kennedy Toole is probably the most famous True Outsider, though it pains me to admit that I regard A Confederacy of Dunces as one of the most overrated novels ever published. I am gla… Tom Bissell
“ And so, my beloved Kermit, my dear little Hussein, at the moment America changed forever, your father was wandering an ICBM-denuded watseland, nervously monitoring his radiation level, armed only with… Tom Bissell
“ An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts. Tom Bissell
“ I could imagine a hot day. I could imagine a number of curious people spontaneously following a young man of great wisdom, a young man rumored to wield power over the mysterious afflictions they saw e… Tom Bissell
“ In the emergency of growing up, we all need heroes. But the father I grew up with was no hero to me, not then. He was too wounded in the head, too endlessly and terribly sad. Too funny, too explosive,… Tom Bissell
