About Tom Bissell: Tom Bissell is a journalist, critic, and fiction writer, originally from Escanaba, Michigan, and currently based in Los Angeles, California.
And so, my beloved Kermit, my dear little Hussein, at the moment America changed forever, your father was wandering an ICBM-denuded watseland, nervously monitoring his radiation level, armed only with a baseball bat, a 10mm pistol, and six rounds of ...
In the emergency of growing up, we all need heroes. But the father I grew up with was no hero to me, not then. He was too wounded in the head, too endlessly and terribly sad. Too funny, too explosive, too confusing. Heroes are uncomplicated. *This* m...
An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.
Of that time, there is still much we do not know.
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.
Fun is not the same thing as fulfillment.
Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.
Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom.
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
