Storyological 2.06 - LIE TO ME
Storyological
English - March 27, 2017 12:37 - 28 minutes - 38.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsBooks Arts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In which we discuss "Sabbath Wine" by Barbara Krasnoff and "The Future Looks Good" by Lesley Nneka Arimah. Also. Hope. Lies. And bungee running.
In which we discuss,
1. "Sabbath Wine" by Barbara Krasnoff, Clockwork Phoenix, 2016.
2. "The Future Looks Good" by Lesley Nneka Arimah, Pank, 2014.
along with, among other things...
Barbara Krasnoff
Her home on the web
Videos of her readings.
Reviews of her work.
Lesley Nneka Arimah
Her home on the web
Interview in The New Yorker
Also. Her story there: “Who Will Greet You at Home”
On Hope and the Lies We Tell Our Children
Crash Course on Natural Law Theory by Thomas Aquinas
On the nature of radical hope by Junot Diaz
"Lies My Parents Told Me", Buffy the Vampire Slayer (see also, "Lie to Me")
Libertarian free will.
Crash Course on Determinism vs Free Will
On Biafra and Nigeria
“Things Left Unsaid” by Chimamanda Adichie, reviewing A Personal History of Biafra by Chinua Achebe
“The Biafrans who still dream of leaving Nigeria,” BBC
Free Will and Narratives
The Iron Giant
“Bullet in the Brain” by Tobias Wolff
That one Storyological episode, FULLY PROOFED, in which we discussed ZZ Packer’s story, “Every Tongue Shall Confess.”
Wordy People and Things
Plato and The Republics.
Depression and Realism
Homo Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari .
Ephemeric Things
The Upside Down of Stranger Things.
Bungee running. It’s a thing.
Kurt Vonnegut’s rules of writing.
Sam J. Miller’s, “Life in Fiction 2016.”