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 BissellMost non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom.
Tom BissellTo create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic. These essays are about that magic — which is sometimes perilous, sometimes infectious, sometimes fragile, sometimes failed, sometimes infuriating, sometimes triumphant, and sometimes tragic. I went up there. I wrote. I tried to see.
Tom Bissell