Object Lessons
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Object Lessons




Ian Bogost and I have just officially launched our new series of essays and books, Object Lessons.

Read, play, propose an essay or a book!





- Writing: Sometimes It Works
Writing: sometimes it works, especially when others are involved Part of my job is to write. It's a weird part of the job because it's rather incalculable and very unpredictable?when it will happen, how it will turn out, whether it will end up...

- Ends Of Things
film equipment for The End of the Tour at the Muskegon Airport in Michigan I wrote about the film The End of the Tour for 3:AM Magazine. I can't tell if the current hype around David Foster Wallace?spurred on by the film and countless reviews...

- Object Lessons, The Backstory
Earlier this winter Ander Monson asked me & Ian to do an editor's post on Object Lessons for the Essay Daily; it's up and you can see it here. And now for further edification, here's even more?the backstory of the series: A few years...

- Object Lessons At Mla
If you are at MLA in Chicago this week, stop by the Bloomsbury tables (136 & 138) and talk to our editor Haaris Naqvi about Object Lessons. As a bonus, you can pick up this snazzy flyer: ...

- Jet Bridges
neither airport nor airplane... My Object Lessons essay on jet bridges was published this week at The Atlantic. Here are a few additional images to ponder... A completely bland jet bridge interior appears in a passing scene in the film Killing...



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