Storyological 2.01 - THE IMPORTANCE OF CELINE DION

In which we discuss,

1. SEASONS OF GLASS AND IRON by Amal El-Mohtar, The Starlit Wood & Uncanny Magazine

2. WHAT IS LOST by Su-Yee Lin, Interfictions

Along with, among other things...

Amal El-Mohtar

• “Pockets” at Uncanny
• An interview with Alethea Kontis

Su-Yee Lin

• “Thirteen Steps in the Underworld” on Tor.com
• An interview with the Interstitial Arts Foundation

Wordy Stuff

• The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales, edited by Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe
• Chuck Tingle
• “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Thematic Stuff

• Justice and punishment in fairytales
• Freud and Jung: A Failure of Eros
• “On Nostalgia, Myth, and The Way We Never Were” and also “It never was golden”
• Memory as Resistance: Grandma Kong Defending Her Village, a short film by Chan Seong Foong & Victor Chin.
• “My Heart Will Go On”, a video from yestertime by Celine Dion.

Some Links to Places Where One Might Nominate The Starlit Wood, Among Other Things

• Hugo Awards
• Nebula Awards

Episodes of Storyological Past

• WHEN RUMPELSTILTSKIN COMES AROUND, in which we discussed that other story we talked about from The Starlit Wood: Naomi Novik’s “Spinning Silver.”
• LATER EVERYTHING, in which we discussed “Pockets,” also by Amal El-Mohtar
• SEXY TRAINS ARE SEXY, in which we discussed a similarly sensual deep dive into the past, Stuart Dybek’s “Pet Milk.”