Storyological 2.14 - OF STARS AND SOPS

In which we discuss "The Sweet Sop" by Ingrid Persaud and "Swimmer Among the Stars" by Kanishk Tharoor. Along with, among other things, John Green, Nutella, and death.

In which we discuss,

1. “The Sweet Sop” by Ingrid Persaud, Granta, 2017.

2. “Swimmer Among the Stars” by Kanishk Tharoor, Swimmer Among the Stars, 2017.

Along with, among other things...

Ingrid Persaud

“T&T’s author Ingrid Persaud wins the 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize”, Daily Express, 2017.
Commonwealthwriters.org

Kanishk Tharoor

“Elephants Escape Time and Space in These Stories’ Porous Borders” by Meron Hadero, New York Times review of Swimmer Among the Stars.
Kanishk Tharoor, writing about James Baldwin, on his website, kanishktharoor.net. Originally published in the Hindu Blink, February 2017.

Other various

That one video by John Green, Civil Twilight (YouTube), herwith a transcript from nerdfighteria.
That one ode to nutella.
That one book, The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross, in which some advice is given to Duke Ellington about ‘reversing your figures.’
That one bookshop, Any Amount of Books, wherein I discovered Swimmer Among the Stars with former Strange Horizons editor, Niall Harrison.
That one book by Randall Munroe (of XKCD), The Thing Explainer.

Also. Also.

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