game as worm?
by Anne Stameshkin
Celeste just linked me to this article. “You can’t just make a book anymore,” said Mr. Haarsma, a former advertising consultant. Pairing a video game with a novel for young readers, he added, “brings the book into their world, as opposed to going the other way around.” Celeste: Really? Isn’t falling into the world of a book one of the joys of fiction? But then, if a game *does* draw kids to reading, maybe it’s a good thing after all. We found the following scene disturbing — and not just because it transpired in our MFA Homeland: At a gaming […]
