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Ken Baumann

    This author explores provocative questions of identity and reality through their celebrated novels. Their writing is distinguished by an innovative form and a deep excavation of the human experience. With a dedication to connecting with readers on a personal level, they draw on extensive literary interests and experiences that shape their unique authorial voice.

    Earthbound
    What Now?: A Sick Person's Guide to Surviving the United States of America
    • 2021

      This book is a practical guide to surviving the United States of America's health care systems. Meant to be read in one hour, it will show you how to understand, manage, and cope with being sick. It features tips, resources, definitions, rules of thumb, and hard-earned advice from chronically-ill people across the USA.10% of this book's proceeds are donated to ripmedicaldebt.org

      What Now?: A Sick Person's Guide to Surviving the United States of America
    • 2014

      Earthbound

      • 208 pages
      • 8 hours of reading
      3.7(481)Add rating

      An RPG for the Super NES that flopped when it first arrived to the U.S., EarthBound grew in fan support and critical acclaim over the years, eventually becoming the All-Time Favorite Game of thousands, among them author Ken Baumann.Featuring a heartfelt foreword from the game's North American localization director, Marcus Lindblom, Baumann's EarthBound is a joyful tornado of history, criticism, and memoir.Baumann explores the game’s unlikely origins, its brilliant creator, its madcap plot, its marketing failure, its cult rise from the ashes, and its intersections with Japanese and American culture, all the while reflecting back on the author's own journey into the terrifying and hilarious world of adults.

      Earthbound