Description: Published in association with Loyola University, New Orleans and and Washington University, St. Louis.
Brief description: Ian Bogost is an author and an award-winning game designer. He is Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences, Director of Film & Media Studies, and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. Bogost is also Founding Partner at Persuasive Games LLC, an independent game studio, and a Contributing Editor at The Atlantic. Bogost is author or co-author of ten books, including Alien Phenomenology (2012)and Play Anything (2016).
Review Quotes:
"Few people have thought as hard or as well about magazines as Jeff Jarvis does. He describes Magazine as an elegy, and it's a beautiful one, but it's so much more-a love letter to the heyday of a glorious form, a roundhouse punch thrown at those who failed as its custodians, an elegant and insightful history of a medium, and a vivid, funny, unsparing memoir. It's a pleasure to read him, and a privilege to learn from him." --Mark Harris, journalist and author of Mike Nichols: A Life (2021)
"A starter, lover, student, and doubter of magazines, Jeff Jarvis is here to explain to us-in beautiful and entertaining prose-what the magazine was when it was great, and how the internet undid it, by wiring us together in a different way, and giving everyone a printing press. The call that magazines once answered is still heard, he argues. It is to 'set the idea of community free from geography.'" --Jay Rosen, Associate Professor of Journalism, New York University, USA "Having devoted a chunk of my life to writing for and editing magazines, I wondered whether Jeff Jarvis's smart little chronicle, Magazine, would feel like nostalgia or PTSD. He opened so well, it ceased to matter." --The Common Reader "This is an insightful, succinct history of a cherished institution and a vivid, often funny and unsparing tribute to a fast-faltering entertainment medium." --The Irish Scene