You’re Not Overthinking It
The Annotated Essays of Jacob Geller
$61.34
- Hardcover
216 pages
- Release Date
30 December 2026
Summary
Over his illustrious career, Jacob Geller has written and produced a sprawling collection of video essays. Deftly interweaving video game analysis with complex narratives about art, politics and history, Geller’s work positions games as vital tools for understanding each other and ourselves.
“This is an effort to keep the text alive, to never have ‘the final word’ on something in a world where we never stop learning and growing.” – Jacob Geller
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780008756512 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0008756511 |
| Author: | Jacob Geller |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Imprint: | Expanse |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 216 |
| Release Date: | 30 December 2026 |
| Weight: | 840g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 196mm x 247mm |
| Audience Age: | 14 |
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Critics Review
Featured on Sight and Sound’s list of “Best Video Essays of the Year,” – 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Featured on Polygon’s list of “Best Video Essays of the Year,” – 2020, 2022, 2023
Jacob Geller … is to the video game essay what Annie Dillard is to the literary essay” – Patrick House, LA Review of Books
“It probably goes without saying that Jacob Geller is the Future of Writing about Video Games, but he’s also the future of writing about … kind of anything?” – Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, How a Game Lives
Jacob Geller is the host of the podcast Something Rotten.
Jacob Geller
Jacob Geller writes about the intersecting worlds of video games, politics, art, and storytelling. He primarily publishes essays to YouTube, where his work has been cumulatively viewed over one hundred million times.
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