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Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
Steven Kotler • Last Tango in Cyberspace: A Novel
The book hinges on this kind of contrast: the purity and otherworldliness of the game, and the human mess and wreckage that almost always surround it.
Martin Amis • The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 (Vintage International)
Levels of the Game by John McPhee,
Ferriss, Timothy • Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
The lower shelves were where I kept the paperbacks I figured I’d never read again. The names on the spines, Herman Hesse, Raymond Radiguet, and Kyusaku Yumeno, had all faded in the sun. Lord of the Flies, Pride and Prejudice, and my Dostoyevsky, The Gambler, Notes from Underground, and The Brothers Karamazov. Chekhov, Camus, Steinbeck. The Odyssey
... See moreMieko Kawakami • Breasts and Eggs
What, after all, is a video game’s subtextual preoccupation if not the erasure of mortality?
Gabrielle Zevin • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: Give the #1 bestseller to everyone you love this Christmas
What, after all, is a video game’s subtextual preoccupation if not the erasure of mortality?