Image Credit: John M. Heller/Getty ImagesWe’ll soon be getting the Lowe-down straight from the actor’s mouth. Rob Lowe, currently aboard the good ship Parks and Recreation, is set to pen a memoir about his life and a career chock-full of comebacks (and at least one notorious sex tape). Henry Holt and Co. has set the release date for Stories I Only Tell My Friends as May 2011, and claims the book will be written entirely by Lowe without the aid of a ghostwriter. Judging by his history of leaving TV shows after only a few seasons, Holt had better hope he doesn’t quit halfway through the memoir to move on to writing a sci-fi novel or something.
What do you think, Shelf-Lifers? Interested in having a Lowe profile? Or are you holding out for a collected volume of life lessons from Judd Nelson or one of Lowe’s other ’80s costars? (Demi Moore’s is already in the works.)
At the beginning of Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter, Tom Bissell lists a few reasons why videogames have mostly eluded critical analysis. Games take forever to finish (if they even have a finish). They skew young, male, and stupid. The pace of innovation instantly fossilizes everything. “Game magazines publish game review after game review,” Bissell writes, “but they tend to focus on providing consumers with a sense of whether their money will be well spent.” Are videogames even an art worthy of careful consideration, or are they just a commercial product? Is reviewing a videogame like reviewing a toaster, or a car? And if so, who wants to read my semiotic analysis of the Ford Focus?
