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b'Tom Bissell is a journalist, critic, video game writer, and author of The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made. His latest book is Magic Hours.\\n\\n \\u201cI kind of have come around to maybe not as monkish or fanatical devotion to sentence idolatry as I was when I was a younger writer, earlier in my career. I think I\\u2019m coming around to a place where a lot of middle-aged writers get to, which is: I tried to rewire and change the world with the beauty of language alone\\u2014it didn\\u2019t work. Now how about I try to write stuff that\\u2019s true, or that\\u2019s not determined to show people I am a Great Writer. Like a lot of young writers, you\\u2019re driven by that. Then at a certain point you realize A) you\\u2019re not going to be the Great Writer you wanted to be, and B) the determination of that is completely beyond your power to control, so best that you just write as best you can and as honestly as you can, and everything else just sort of becomes gravy.\\u201d\\n\\nThanks to MailChimp and Tripping.com for sponsoring this week\'s episode.\\nBissell on Longform\\n[00:50] The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam (Pantheon \\u2022 2007)\\n[01:25] "Cinema Crudit\\xe9" (Harper\\u2019s Magazine \\u2022 Aug 2010)\\n[01:40] The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made (Simon & Schuster \\u2022 2013)\\n[02:40] "Loch Ness Memoir" (VQR \\u2022 March 2007)\\n[03:15] " Video Games: The Addiction " (The Guardian \\u2022 March 2010)\\n[04:25] Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia (Pantheon \\u2022 2016)\\n[05:25] Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter (Vintage \\u2022 2011)\\n[21:55] "Escanaba\\u2019s Magic Hour" (Harper\\u2019s Magazine \\u2022 Sep 2000)\\n[22:50] Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia (Pantheon \\u2022 2003)\\n[23:45] "Euphorias of Perrier: The Case Against Robert D. Kaplan" (VQR \\u2022 June 2006)\\n[42:40] "How to Get Rich Playing Video Games Online" (Taylor Clark \\u2022 The New Yorker \\u2022 Nov 2017)\\n[52:15] Magic Hours (Vintage \\u2022 2018)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'