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Tom Bissell is one of America's best and most interesting writers." --Stephen King, in the anthology Flight or FrightFrom the best-selling author of The Disaster Artist, a new collection of stories that range from laugh-out-loud funny to disturbingly dark--unflinching portraits of people struggling to bridge the gap between art and life.A young and ingratiating assistant to a movie star makes a blunder that puts his boss and a major studio at ...

Award-winning essayist Tom Bissell explores the highs and lows of the creative process. He takes us from the set of The Big Bang Theory to the first novel of Ernest Hemingway to the final work of David Foster Wallace, from the films of Werner Herzog to the film of Tommy Wiseau to the editorial meeting in which Paula Fox's work was relaunched into the world. Originally published in magazines such as The Believer, The New Yorker, and Harper's, t...

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

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A journey into the heart of Christianity past and present, as the author travels across the world to explore the lives and legacies of the Twelve Apostles. From the author of "Chasing The Sea".

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Tom Bissell started writing his novel back in his college days. In class he was asked to, "write a short story" and it was this one request from an English teacher that set him off on an adventure inside his mind! He enjoyed it so much he continued to (occasionally) write more stories and poems here and there and, ten years later, the finished article appears as a compilation of the things that popped into his head throughout the years. He exp...

In Extra Lives, acclaimed writer and life-long video game enthusiast Tom Bissell takes the reader on an insightful and entertaining tour of the art and meaning of video games. In just a few decades, video games have grown increasingly complex and sophisticated, and the companies that produce them are now among the most profitable in the entertainment industry. Yet few outside this world have thought deeply about how these games work, why they ...

The story of Twelve Apostles is the story of early Christianity: its competing versions of Jesus's ministry, its countless schisms, and its ultimate evolution from an obscure Jewish sect to the global faith we know today in all its forms and permutations. In his quest to understand the underpinnings of the world's largest religion, Tom Bissell embarks on a years-long pilgrimage to the apostles' supposed tombs, traveling from Jerusalem and Rome...

In deze diepgravende en emotionele reis naar het hart van het christendom verkent Tom Bissell de mysterieuze en vaak paradoxale levens en overleveringen van de twaalf apostelen. Petrus, Johannes, Thomas, Mattheüs: wie waren die mannen? Hoe was hun relatie met Jezus? Dit boek geeft gefundeerde en soms verrassende antwoorden op die oude vragen. Bissell spit niet alleen naar de identiteit van de apostelen, maar kijkt ook hoe ons beeld van hen doo...

In 1996, Tom Bissell went to Uzbekistan as a na•ve Peace Corps volunteer. Though he lasted only a few months before illness and personal crisis forced him home, Bissell found himself entranced by this remote land. Five years later he returned to explore the shrinking Aral Sea, destroyed by Soviet irrigation policies. Joining up with an exuberant translator named Rustam, Bissell slips more than once through the clutches of the Uzbek police as h...

Young Americans abroad in Central Asia find themselves pushed to their limits in these acclaimed, prize-winning stories by one of our most exciting and talented new authors. Combining bleak humor, ironic insight, deep compassion, and unflinching moral and ethical inquiry, Tom Bissell gives us a gripping collection that is both timeless and profoundly relevant to today's complex world.

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 soldier, including a near fatal injury, Tom Bissell weaves a larger history of the war and explores the controversies that still spark furious debate today. Blending history, memoir, and travelogue, The Father of All Things is a portrait of the war's personal, political, a...