[One of The New Yorker's 20 Under 40]Originally published in The New Yorker, Oct. 4, 2010. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 92.What's the deal with pen-and-paper role-playing games? Well, in Lipsyte's tale of "The Dungeon Master," it's a means of taking back some meager control of the world around you. Hence our "hero" uses "a secret language that we don't quite understand" (note the clever first-person-plura…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 01:30PM on November 15, 2010