Since then he’s amassed a CV of almost dizzying variability. Pankaj Mishra, lauding the book in the New York Times, said the “short story seems the right form for him.”īissell, 47, has not heeded that guidance. Its title story won a Pushcart Prize, and two others spawned film adaptations, including one directed by Werner Herzog. Petersburg, as auspicious a fiction debut as any.
In 2005, after his nonfiction book Chasing the Sea, Bissell published the collection God Lives in St. Nevertheless, it’s hard not to see his new story collection, Creative Types (Pantheon, Dec.), as something of a return. When it comes to form, Bissell says, “I view myself as completely homeless. Is he a fiction writer, a journalist, a cultural critic, a video game writer? He’s all of these things and, by own his admission, none of them. Tom Bissell isn’t quite sure what to call himself.
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