Storyological 2.09 - STORY WITH A HOLE
/In which we discuss: He—y Come On Out! by Shinichi Hoshi & Bring Your Own Spoon by Saad Hossain.
Along with, among other things. Emotional baggage, Grayson Perry, and that old song hope.
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: He—y Come On Out! by Shinichi Hoshi & Bring Your Own Spoon by Saad Hossain.
Along with, among other things. Emotional baggage, Grayson Perry, and that old song hope.
In which we chat with writer, Adam Ehrlich Sachs, in the first of our Storyological Pocket Interviews.
Read MoreIn which we discuss, "The Undignified Melodrama of the Bone Contention" by Dorothy Sayers & "Franny" by J.D. Salinger (The New Yorker, 1955). Along with, among other things, Scooby Doo, eating disorders, and reading for comfort or surprise.
Read MoreIn which we discuss: Starver by Daisy Johnson & Trauma Plate by Adam Johnson. Along with, among other things, frustrations, privileges, universalities, and Bob's Burgers.
Read MoreIn which we discuss: "Sabbath Wine" by Barbara Krasnoff & "The Future Looks Good" by Lesley Nneka Ariman.
Also. Hope, lies, and the relationship between free will and narrative structure.
In which we discuss: The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees by E. Lily Yu & The Janitor in Space by Amber Sparks.
Along with, among other things, Men in Black, colonialism, and archetypal wasps.
Read MoreIn which we discuss: ”Love” by Yuri Olesha & ”The Boy Who Never Cried for Me” by Juliana Delgado Lopera. Along with, among other things, communist architecture and the language of love.
Read MoreIn which we discuss: “When It Changed” by Joanna Russ & “Fairy Tale” by Alexandra Kleeman. Along with, among other things, feather dusters, social justice, and cowcatchers.
Read MoreIn which we discuss: “The Venus Effect” by Violet Allen & “Where We Must Be” by Laura van den Berg. Along with, among other things, fate, politics, and bigfoot.
Read MoreIn which we discuss: Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El-Mohtar & What is Lost by Su-Yee Lin. Along with, among other things, love, punishment, and Chuck Tingle.
Read MoreIn which we discuss that one episode of Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol.
Read MoreIn which, for our first holiday special, we discuss the Christmas classic: GREMLINS!
Read MoreIn which we discuss, among other things...
Ephemera
Episodes of our podcast
1.14 - Lamborghinis and Other Signifiers
Magazines/Venues/Story Places
In which we discuss, “Every Tongue Shall Confess” by ZZ Packer, Ploughshares & “The Jewish Hunter” by Lorrie Moore, The New Yorker. Along with, among other things, normalization, marginalization, and redemptions of a shawshankian variety
Read MoreIn which we discuss,
Along with, among other things:
THE YELLOW VOLUME, the fundraising anthology put out by Emma and I and the rest of our 2012 Clarion Workshop class. Pay what you want, $0 to $Infinity, with all money going to support the Clarion Workshop.
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EG's comic debut, in Shelf Heroes: Issue E, in which she illustrates that one time she went to see Eddie the Eagle with her mum and also life and stuff.
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Filmy Type Things
Literariness
People
In which we discuss two stories by Ted Chiang,
Along with, among other things...
Stories of Your Life and Others, the one and only collection of Ted Chiang’s stories.
Some stuff about the mathematical thing of dividing by zero.
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre and the call to action in recognizing the meaninglessness of life
Park Chan Wook and asking the right questions.
Lost.
That one episode of our podcast where we discussed the axiomatic truths of Kelly link.
I live in so many centuries. Everybody is still alive.
In which we discuss,
Along with, among other things...
That one episode of Storyological where we discussed “Brokeback Mountain” by Annie Proulx and the tire iron contained therein.
An example of an intoxicating story by Adam Johnson: “Trauma Plate” from The Barcelona Review.
That one episode of Storyological where we discussed “Pet Milk” by Stuart Dybek.
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
“Following” by Irenosen Okojie.
In which we discuss,
Along with, among other things...
Guardian review of The World and Other Places
Now listen to what Hephaestus says in reply: "Take courage, and do not let these things distress you in your heart. Would that I had the power to hide him far away from death and the sounds of grief when grim fate comes to him, but I can see that beautiful armor surrounds him, of such a kind that many people, one after another, who look on it, will wonder"
What is experienced in such an excess of tragic suffering is something truly common. The spectator recognizes himself [or herself] and his [or her] finiteness in the face of the power of fate. What happens to the great ones of the earth has exemplary significance. . . .To see that "this is how it is" is a kind of self-knowledge for the spectator, who emerges with new insight from the illusions in which he [or she], like everyone else, lives.
Show don’t tell.
Which seems a good time to mention that 'show don't tell', while great advice, is not the be all and end all of writing. I had a professor who used to say, it used to be that his writing students couldn't see the wood for the trees, but now, thanks to having 'show don't tell' hammered into them from year 1, most of them can't see the trees for the wood, which is just as bad.
In which we discuss "Brokeback Mountain" by Annie Proulx and "The Lake" by Tanarive Due.
Along with, among other things: Lolita, monsters, fear, and the power of being specific.
Read MoreIn which we discuss stories by Octavia Butler and Rebecca Schiff.
Read MoreStoryological is a podcast in love with stories. Every episode, writers E.G. Cosh and Chris Kammerud choose a pair of short stories and discuss something of how they work and why they matter and what they might teach us about life, the universe, and everything.
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