Storyological 1.05 - E.G. HAS NEVER SHOT A GRANDMOTHER

In which we discuss,

1. "Union" by Tamsyn Muir, Clarkesworld

2. "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find

Along with, among other things:

some writers

• Tamsyn Muir
• Flannery O’Connor
  • How to Tell If You’re in a Flannery O’Connor Story, The Toast
  • Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
  • Morality in Flannery O’Connor

    In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do this unless his moral judgement is part of the very act of seeing, and he is free to use it. I have heard it said that belief in Christian dogma is a hindrance to the writer, but I myself have found nothing further from the truth. Actually, it frees the storyteller to observe. It is not a set of rules which fixes what he sees in the world. It affects his writing primarily by guaranteeing his respect for mystery... ~ Flannery O'Connor
    
    

• Shirley Jackson
  • Paranoia by Shirley Jackson
  • The Witchcraft of Shirley Jackson by Joyce Carol Oates
• H.P. Lovecraft
• Holly Black
• Jane Austen
  • The Novel of Social Comedy
  • Dining with Jane Austen
• George Saunders
  • NYT on 10th of December
  • The Situation in American Writing
  • A life in writing

some thoughts about ideas

• Uncanny Valley
  • “Uncanny Valley: why we find human-like robots and dolls so creepy”
  • “10 Creepy Examples of the Uncanny Valley”
  • Uncanny Valley: tv tropes
• The Southern Gothic
  • “Why southern gothic rules the world”
  • “10 Best Southern Gothic Books”
  • “10 Great Southern Gothic Films”
• Refusal of the call to adventure
• Chekov’s Gun