Out of the Boss Fight Books Laboratory: An Interview with Gabe Durham
Justin Lawrence Daugherty
It’s way more work than I thought it would be, and yet now these first six books really do exist, out of our little laboratory and into the world.
(The Cartridge Lit blog.)
It’s way more work than I thought it would be, and yet now these first six books really do exist, out of our little laboratory and into the world.
The Long Dark is a cruel inventory. A geomagnetic disaster. A near-empty and frighteningly cold Canadian landscape. A single player and so much quiet.
When I went to live with my mother and my older sister, video games were there to distract me while my mother worked all day. I found the worlds of video games fascinating, an escape from my situation, much akin to what you described in your book.
The writers that Gabe has corralled for this season are impressive and diverse—Matt Bell is best-known for his surreal novel-as-fable In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods, while Ashly and Anthony Burch are famous for the video series “Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin.”
2 Mello is a composer and MC from Lexington, Kentucky, and has just dropped this album of remixes between Final Fantasy 6 music and Wu-Tang. He is our new hero.
We think video games are literature, and so why shouldn't there be literature about video games? That's the question we're hoping to answer here. Read more.