Nathan Wainstein
@NathanWainstein
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Author of Grant Us Eyes and cohost of @authorsdietwice. What we talk about when we talk about how to do things with literary criticism (and its discontents).
Joined January 2023
Had the incredible privilege of chatting with Michael W. Clune (author of GAMELIFE, the best book ever written about video games) about my book GRANT US EYES (coming soon from @tuneandfair) for the new podcast hosted by @TannerHumCenter: .
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RT @authorsdietwice: New episode up! Hear us talk with @crealoya about Dark Souls 1 and sentences lost to time. And make sure to listen to….
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Podcast Episode · Authors Die Twice · 07/28/2025 · 1h 22m
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RT @authorsdietwice: New ep talking silent hill 2, spiders, and (bennett) sims!
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Podcast Episode · Authors Die Twice · 07/14/2025 · 1h 17m
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RT @authorsdietwice: New episode up today on Final Fantasy 7 with the amazing filmmaker Christopher Jason Bell (@UpdateTheGrids). Keep an e….
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Podcast Episode · Authors Die Twice · 06/30/2025 · 1h 21m
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RT @UpdateTheGrids: you want to listen to me talk about Final Fantasy 7, you can, on the new episode of @authorsdietwice .
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Had such a good time going on the fantastic REEL RAP podcast to talk The Turn of the Screw and The Innocents (1961). Bennett and @crealoya even let me try out the "late James mostly sucks" take I've been sitting on for 10 years.
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Podcast Episode · Reel Rap · 06/27/2025 · 1h 23m
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RT @crealoya: Today we’re joined by @NathanWainstein to discuss, The Turn Of The Screw by Henry James and The Innocents (1961). We talk dif….
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RT @authorsdietwice: Launching this feed with a special one: Bryan somehow convinced Debbie Urbanski (Portalmania, After World: A Novel) to….
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Podcast Episode · Authors Die Twice · 06/16/2025 · 1h 26m
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RT @TannerHumCenter: What does Bloodborne have to do with literary and artistic modernism? Almost everything, according to Nathan Wainstein….
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RT @RKRigney: @eadavison_ Great piece. I know Nathan and the Tune & Fairweather gang are over the moon about this.
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Really great piece by @eadavison_ discussing Bloodborne, modernism, and Grant Us Eyes up today at NYT! (reposting with author tag)
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When the video game Bloodborne dropped players into the deep end and ignored their cries for help, it joined a tradition of challenging work that outraged audiences.
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RT @crealoya: I talked about the only good version of something like this on Authors Die Twice. @alexgarland message me im dead serious i c….
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Podcast Episode · Authors Die Twice · 04/21/2025 · 1h 12m
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RT @LAReviewofBooks: "Games like 'The Last of Us' do not merely accentuate our incapacity to make choices for the characters at pivotal mom….
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Nathan Wainstein reexamines Naughty Dog’s 2020 game “The Last of Us Part II.”
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RT @brandonenorth: @LAReviewofBooks @NathanWainstein Nathan, brilliant analysis here, but I wonder if the ending flashback isn't diegetic b….
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RT @LAReviewofBooks: "'The Last of Us Part II' is defined everywhere by an interplay between sophisticated forms of characterological ident….
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RT @crealoya: I was a guest on my new favorite podcast , Authors Die Twice hosted by Bryan Counter and @NathanWainstein. We talk about the….
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RT @tuneandfair: Grant Us Eyes probes the difficulty of Bloodborne’s fragmented narrative, the difficulty of its graphical and aural glitch….
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RT @tuneandfair: Announcing Grant Us Eyes: The Art of Paradox in Bloodborne by @NathanWainstein. Bloodborne contains a host of mysteries s….
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