Storyological 1.04 - QUASI-AUTONOMOUS NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS

In which we discuss, 

1. "The Killing Jar" by Laurie Penny, Motherboard

2. "The Closest Thing to Animals" by Sofia Samatar, Fireside Fiction

Along with, among other things:

• Fantastical bureaucracies
  • Brazil
  • Beetlejuice
  • Defending Your Life
• The, now somewhat out-of-date but preserved for future generations, list of story stropes Strange Horizons was seeing too much of in 2012.
• The Arts Council is absolutely a real thing.
• Quasi-autonomous non-governmental organizations.
• British vs. U.S. sitcoms
• Laurie Penny and the London Riots
  • Panic on Streets of London
  • What Really Happened in Trafalgar Square
  • The Politics of the London Riots (an overview from Rehanna Jones-Boutaleb
• True Crime
• Making of a Murderer
• Serial Podcast
• George Saunders
• Depression
  • Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
  • Jessie Burton, on success, creativity, and the anxious space
• Before Sunrise
• Kevin Brockmeier
• Robot Hugs, "Nest"