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    Lightness of Being (a Gamer)

    I’d Rather Game than Read a Book

    In a 2002 New Yorker essay titled “Mr. Difficult,” author Jonathan Franzen of The Corrections fame argued that in the face of increased ...
    By vincent kang Legacy AuthorApril 10, 2007

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