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An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.

Tom Bissell

To 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

Tom Bissell

Tom Bissell

Born: 1974 (age 50)

Bio: Tom Bissell is an American journalist, critic, and fiction writer, originally from Escanaba, Michigan, and currently based in Los Angeles, California.

Known for:

Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter (2010)
The Disaster Artist (2013)

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