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    Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter

    Tom Bissell

    Originally published: New York: Pantheon Books, c2010. With new appendix.

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    Creative Types: and Other Stories

    Tom Bissell

    From the best-selling coauthor of The Disaster Artist and one of America’s best and most interesting writers (Stephen King), a new collection of stories that range from laugh-out-loud funny to…

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    Magic Hours

    Tom Bissell

    Originally published in a slightly different form in the United States by Believer Books, a division of McSweeney’s, San Francisco in 2012 –Title page verso.

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    Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter

    Tom Bissell

    Combining the author’s personal experience with interviews of some of the leading game designers at work today, Extra Lives is an insightful–and highly entertaining–appraisal of this ubiquitous form of popular…

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    God Lives in St. Petersburg: Short Stories

    Tom Bissell

    In this exciting collection, the acclaimed author of Chasing the Sun turns his keenly observant eye to fiction with sometimes tragic, sometimes hilarious adventures and misadventures of Americans colliding with…

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    Apostle: Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve

    Tom Bissell

    In this profound and moving journey into the heart of Christianity past and present, Tom Bissell travels across the world to explore the lives and legacies of the Twelve Apostles.

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    The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam

    Tom Bissell

    The Father of All Things is a riveting, haunting, and often hilarious account of a veteran and his son’s journey through Vietnam. As his father recounts his experiences as a…

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    Chasing the Sea

    Tom Bissell

    The author of fiction and journalism chronicles his harrowing journey into Uzbekistan to investigate the ecological disaster of the Aral Sea, capturing all the pathos and contradictions witnessed by an…

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    Apostle: Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve

    Tom Bissell

    Peter, Matthew, Thomas, John: Who were these men and what was their relationship to Jesus? This book answers these questions.

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    The Disaster Artist

    Greg Sestero,Tom Bissell

    The Disaster Artist is the hilarious, behind-the-scenes story of cult cinematic phenomenon The Room, as well as the tale of an odd and inspiring Hollywood friendship.

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    The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside the Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made

    Greg Sestero,Tom Bissell

    The Disaster Artist is the hilarious, behind-the-scenes story of cult cinematic phenomenon The Room, as well as the tale of an odd and inspiring Hollywood friendship.

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    The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside the Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made

    Greg Sestero,Tom Bissell

    The hilarious and inspiring story of how a mysterious misfit got past every roadblock in the Hollywood system to achieve success on his own terms: a $6 million cinematic catastrophe…

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    The Disaster Artist Lib/E

    Tom Bissell, Greg Sestero

    Nineteen-year-old Greg Sestero met Tommy Wiseau at an acting school in San Francisco. Wiseau's scenes were rivetingly wrong, yet Sestero, hypnotized by such uninhibited acting, thought, I have to do…

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    The Disaster Artist

    Tom Bissell, Greg Sestero

    Nineteen-year-old Greg Sestero met Tommy Wiseau at an acting school in San Francisco. Wiseau's scenes were rivetingly wrong, yet Sestero, hypnotized by such uninhibited acting, thought, I have to do…

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    The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside the Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made

    Tom Bissell,Greg Sestero

    The hilarious and inspiring story of how a mysterious misfit got past every roadblock in the Hollywood system to achieve success on his own terms: a $6 million cinematic catastrophe…

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    Addicted: Notes from the Belly of the Beast

    Is addiction a disease, a sin, a sign of hypersensitivity, a personal failing, or a unique resource for the creative mind? However it is defined, addiction can have devastating consequences…

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    Flight or Fright: 17 Turbulent Tales Edited by Stephen King and Bev Vincent

    Stephen King,Bev Vincent,Michael Lewis,Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,Richard Matheson

    An anthology of turbulent tales edited by Stephen King and Bev Vincent. This exciting new collection, perfect for airport and aeroplane reading, includes an original introduction and story notes for…

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    Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal Fall 2013

    Marjorie Perloff,Tom Bissell,Maria Bustillos,Jacob Mikanowski,Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah

    The Los Angeles Review of Books launched in April of 2011 as a humble Tumblr, with a 2600-word essay by Ben Ehrenreich entitled The Death of the Book. The gesture…

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