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Typebar Magazine Issue 11 Is Up ⬆️

10 new essays and a short story!

Hello subscribers, friends, and well-wishers!

Typebar Magazine founder & editor Matt Wolfbridge here letting you know Issue 11 is now LIVE. Yes, 10 essays and a short story all in your inbox approximately 12 hours earlier than promised.

I'm quite excited about Issue 11! On a personal level, I'm thrilled we get to publish serious analysis of the MMORPG genre as well as fiction centered around professional wrestling. World of Warcraft practically changed my life as a teenager in 2004. Watching professional wrestling as a younger kid filled me with the only comparable sense of wondrous possibility. There were zombie funeral directors, sumo wrestlers, hog farmers, moon men, and evil dentists. I'm happy we get to publish a story that, at its heart, is about the appreciation of a specific style of professional wrestling as a nearly sacred performance art.

But we've got several other essays, too. I'll stop talking and link them below. If you're not a paid subscriber, you won't be able to read them all. I think they're more than worth it. Keep in mind you're also getting a full year of the magazine which includes other Issues and interstitial essays in-between Issues.

I'll let you get to reading. Thanks for everything and enjoy Issue 11!

NOTE: For our paid subscribers who enjoy the eBook version, stay tuned for an email with the file attachments!


Americana Antichrist Superstar; or How Kid Rock Became White
Ladies and gentlemen: Mr. Robert Ritchie. His name is Kid Rock.

Insecurity Theatre: On the Final Destination Series and Post-9/11 Paranoia
Discard fear and live in freedom.

World of Warcraft: Forever and the MMO Genre's Critical Turning Point
Will developers finally prioritize what makes MMOs worth playing or keep pushing marketplace slop?

Beyond the Fields We Know: On Portal Fantasy and Escapism
It's time we ask the genre for something deeper than escape.

Yahoo! Groups, Krazitivity, and What Contemporary Nostalgia Erases from the Past
On Nigerian poetry and the limits of Western attention.

Left Behind and Truth's Decline: How We Came to Live in Tim LaHaye’s World
On fiction and the violent fantasies of the Christian right.

Coming and Going: Doug Liman's Go (1999) and the Long Millennium
The dream of the 90s is alive in a colorless present.

A (Sometimes Horny) Relic of the Past: HBO's "Real Sex" vs. Our Sanitized Present
The show taught me sex can be imperfect and fun. Where is its replacement?

A Tribute to the IMDB Message Boards, a Signpost for the Modern Internet
The once thriving forums shutdown nearly a decade ago after years of unmoderated spam, abuse, and trolling. Sound familiar?

Touch Grass, See Art: Learning from Tinderdust’s Adventures in Laradise
"You can’t choose much, but you can choose to do your work."

Strong Style
Fiction by Dave Walsh
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