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Disaster Artist writer Tom Bissell on bogus authenticity and violence in art

Deviate with Rolf Potts - - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 117 ratings
"If you go through your life expecting moral purity from every artist you love, you're going to have a very lonely life, aesthetically." – Tom Bissell Tom Bissell is an American author, journalist, and critic. He co-authored the book The Disaster Artist, which has been adapted into a movie star...

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Episode 288: Tom Bissell

Longform - April 04, 2018 14:22 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratings
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. “I kind of have come around to maybe not as monkish or fanatical devotion to sentence idolatry as I was when I wa...

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98: Video Game Writing With Tom Bissell

Kotaku Splitscreen - September 28, 2017 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 766 ratings
Kirk and Jason start things off by talking about the SNES Classic, Danganronpa V3, and Divinity: Original Sin 2. Then it's time for news (31:36) about the voice actors strike ending, toxicity in gaming, and Assassin's Creed: Origins getting a tourist mode. Then, prolific writer Tom Bisse...