Storyological 2.05 - THE WINDMILL WAS INSIDE OF YOU ALL ALONG

Storyological

Storyological is a podcast about stories. In particular, short stories. In particular, any sort of short story that amazes us. Sometimes we talk about stories in Clarkesworld. Sometimes in Granta. Sometimes we talk about comics. Very occasionally we talk about films. Every episode, writers E.G Cosh and Chris Kammerud discuss how stories work and why they matter and what it is about these particular stories that we love more than anything.

In which we discuss,

1. "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees" by E. Lily Yu, Clarkesworld, 2011.

2. "The Janitor in Space" by Amber Sparks, American Short Fiction, 2014.

along with, among other things...

E. Lily Yu

That one story “The Wretched and the Beautiful” by E. Lily Yu in Motherboard.
That one Locus Magazine spotlight on E. Lily Yu.
That one interview E. Lily Yu did with Uncanny Magazine.

Amber Sparks

That one interview Amber Sparks did with American Short Fiction.
That one essay about Instagram as a cabinet of curiosities
That one About Me on Amber Sparks on website.

On God in Space

On Individuals and Archetypes

That one archetypal tale, The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan.
That one archetype, Death, which Neil Gaiman imagined as a young woman in Sandman.

Wordy People and Things

That one short story collection “A Model World” by Michael Chabon which epigraphs a quote from “The Map Poem” by Elizabeth Bishop.
That one poem, “The Map Poem” by Elizabeth Bishop.
That one book Animal Farm by George Orwell.
Also, this one article from the New York Review, “What Orwell Really Meant” by George Orwell.

Cinematical Things

The stacked perspective on display at the end of Men in Black.
That one episode of Babylon 5 ”A View from the Gallery” which is told from the perspective of two maintenance workers.