Katherine Cross is a Ph.D. student in sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center, and a widely published cultural critic whose work has appeared in The Guardian, Time, Bitch Magazine, and numerous other publications. She writes a weekly column at the videogaming trade publication Gamasutra. You can follow her on Twitter at @Quinnae_Moon.
Katherine Cross
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Writing on Public Books
Ghost in the System
It’s fitting that a videogame about novels and their authorship manages to marry two media long thought to be polar opposites. Aaron Reed and Jacob Garbe’s The Ice-Bound Concordance, available for free, for iPad and Windows, on their website, is a story-based game that requires a real printed-and-bound book in order to play. In an age […]
Spinster Lit
When you travel for a living you have quite a lot of time to think about loneliness and detachment; doing so as a woman adds quite a few layers to that. Despite the much-touted progress of the last century there remains something slightly scandalous about the figure of the unaccompanied woman directing her own travel. […]
