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Tom Bissell

Author of Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter

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Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter 193 copies, 5 reviews
Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia 163 copies, 2 reviews
God Lives in St. Petersburg: and Other Stories 101 copies
The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam 97 copies, 1 review
Magic Hours: Essays on Creators and Creation 54 copies, 1 review
"Sir, Permission to Go AWOL from the Interesting, Sir!" (in Read Hard -… 1 copy
Matthias (in The Lifted Brow 5 - SCOTT) 1 copy
Why I Cannot Write about the Camino de Santiago (in McSweeney's 33 -… 1 copy
My Interview with the Avenger (in Who Can Save Us Now? - KING) 1 copy
Death Defier (in The Best American Short Stories 2005 - KENNISON) 1 copy

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Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's Humor… (Contributor) 701 copies, 13 reviews
The Future Dictionary of America: a book to benefit progressive causes in… (Contributor) 530 copies, 1 review
The Best American Short Stories 2005 (Contributor) 517 copies, 5 reviews
McSweeney's Issue 11: It Can Be Free (Contributor) 282 copies
The Best American Travel Writing 2005 (Contributor) 166 copies, 1 review
The Best American Short Stories 2011 (Contributor) 132 copies, 4 reviews
The Best American Travel Writing 2003 (Contributor) 123 copies
The Best American Travel Writing 2010 (Contributor) 53 copies, 5 reviews
Read Hard: Five Years of Great Writing from the Believer (Contributor) 41 copies, 1 review

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Escanaba, Michigan, USA

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Michigan State University

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