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Does Video Game Criticism Need a Lester Bangs?
Part of the reason Lester Bangs was a great rock critic was because he reflected the virtues and vices of his medium. Yet as a critic Bangs provided a lot of personal standards that could be easily applied to multiple mediums.
30 Nov 2008
Books
"All I Ever Wanted Was to Control My Own Life": An Interview with Chuck Klosterman
Cultural critic Chuck Klosterman talks with PopMatters about his new book, Downtown Owl, his regrets about an old one, and that he might next get into making documentary films.
21 Sep 2008
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Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman
The notion of Klosterman filling a whole novel with his personality seemed daunting to some: after all, his essay-oriented style was the perfect fit for a generation of ADD-addled teenagers.
14 Sep 2008
Music
20 Questions: Chuck Klosterman
Prolific pop culture critic Chuck Klosterman knows as well as PopMatters that, well, pop matters. He discusses with PopMatters 20 Questions some of the things in this world that influence, sway, and affect.
07 Sep 2008
Games
DHARMA's Bent Reality: The Video Game Sensibility of Lost
As a "virtual" landscape, then, The Island is, naturally, bordered on all sides by an impassable boundary, the ocean, and invisible, in a sense, to the "real" world around it.
Elwyn Palmerton
03 Aug 2008
Games
DHARMA's Bent Reality: The Video Game Sensibility of Lost
In this light, it actually seems as if "The Looking Glass" in season three is basically the show's token "underwater level".
Elwyn Palmerton
03 Aug 2008
Games
DHARMA's Bent Reality: The Video Game Sensibility of Lost
Perhaps the most complete and fascinating assimilation of video game-type content into a different medium at a deep and thorough level occurs within the narrative world of the popular television show Lost.
Elwyn Palmerton
03 Aug 2008
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The Boy Who Cried Freebird by Mitch Myers
Despite reading like a book set on random, Myers is a fantastic writer with a great ear for rhythm.
Jodie Janella Keith
22 Apr 2007
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