Storyological
85 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsStoryological 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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Episodes
Storyological 2.01 - THE IMPORTANCE OF CELINE DION
February 13, 2017 13:37 - 25 minutes - 35.1 MBIn which we discuss "Seasons of Glass and Iron" by Amal El-Mohtar and "What is Lost" by Su-Yee Lin
Storyological - HOLIDAY SPECIAL, VOL. 2
January 23, 2017 13:37 - 11 minutes - 15.5 MBA miniature episode in which we discuss that one episode of Doctor Who, A Christmas Carol.
Storyological - HOLIDAY SPECIAL, VOL. 1
January 09, 2017 14:35 - 16 minutes - 22.7 MBA first of several holiday specials in which we talk about the 1984 film Gremlins.
Storyological 1.32 - THE WORLD IS OUR SLUSH PILE
December 05, 2016 13:37 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBIn which we discuss the year that was in Storyological, including, among other things: statistics, darkness, and why we read.
Storyological 1.31 - FULLY PROOFED
November 28, 2016 13:37 - 34 minutes - 46.9 MBIn which we discuss, "Every Tongue Shall Confess” by ZZ Packer & “The Jewish Hunter” by Lorrie Moore, along with, among other things: wrestling with god, hunting for salvation, and carapaces of irony.
Storyological 1.30 - WHEN RUMPELSTILTSKIN COMES AROUND
November 21, 2016 14:30 - 41 minutes - 56.6 MBIn which we discuss "You Have Never Been Here" by M. Rickert and "Spinning Silver" by Naomi Novik, along with, among other things: normalization, marginalization, and so much death.
Storyological 1.29 - WHAT'S HIS NAME PHYSICS MAN
November 07, 2016 13:40 - 31 minutes - 42.6 MBIn which we discuss two stories by Ted Chiang: "Division by Zero" and "Story of Your Life" (on which the the 2016 film Arrival is based).
Storyological 1.28 - A BODY OF ITS OWN
October 31, 2016 13:37 - 29 minutes - 40.8 MBIn which we discuss "Through the Wardrobe" by Lucy Caldwell and "Poko, Poko" by Irenosen Okojie. Also. Dolly zooms, scary statues, and the reality of fantasy
Storyological 1.27 - YOU ARE SO PERSPECTIVE
October 24, 2016 12:37 - 28 minutes - 39 MBIn which we discuss "Poetics of Sex" by Jeannette Winterson and "The Boat and Me" by Tove Jansson. Also. Bloody hearts. Brave little girls. And Carol Ann Duffy.
Storyological 1.26 - ZERO HUGS
October 17, 2016 12:37 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MBIn which we discuss "Brokeback Mountain" by Annie Proulx and "The Lake" by Tanarive Due. Also. Lolita, monsters, fear, and the power of being specific.
Storyological 1.25 - THE RIGHT KIND OF SEX
October 11, 2016 12:37 - 33 minutes - 32 BytesIn which we discuss "The Evening and the Morning and the Night" by Octavia Butler and "Tips" by Rebecca Schiff. Also. Hemingway, sneakers, and icebergs.
Storyological 1.24 - IT'S NOT ABOUT ZEB
October 03, 2016 12:37 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MBIn which we discuss "Ponies" and "26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss" , both by Kij Johnson, along with bullies, belonging, Michael Chabon, Scott McCloud, and the very strange things we seem to have done with our childhood toys.
Storyological 1.23 - AN EXCELLENT WRITE-BACK FUNCTION
September 19, 2016 12:44 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MBIn which we discuss "The Art of Space Travel" by Nina Allan & "The First Full Thought of Her Life" by Deb Olin Unferth. Also. Ray Bradbury, macguffins, and engineering diagrams.
Storyological 1.22 - BUMBLING AND MURDERING
September 12, 2016 13:51 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBIn which we discuss "Slipping" by Lauren Beukes and "The Infamous Bengal Ming" by Rajesh Parameswaran. Also. universal soldiers, underwater horses, and the nature/existence of evil.
Storyological 1.21 - THE BOURNE LAMPSHADE
September 05, 2016 12:50 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MBIn which we discuss "The Wombly" by K.L. Morris and "Directions" by Judy Budnitz. Along with, among other things, sexy lamps, plagues, morality, and uncharted backwaters.
Storyological 1.20 - A HIGH SPEED RAINBOW
August 31, 2016 09:04 - 16 minutes - 13.4 MBIn which we discuss Catherynne M. Valente's "The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild." Along with, among other things, absurdity, rainbows, and the art of fiction.
Storyological 1.19 - THE DEAD GIRL IN THE ROOM
July 05, 2016 12:37 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MBIn which we discuss stories from Margo Lanagan and Karen Russell, along with, among other things, really real girls, Shirley Jackson, P.G. Wodehouse, and octothorpes.
Storyological 1.18 - THE ONLY BEAUTIFUL THING
June 28, 2016 12:37 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBIn which we discuss "Escape from Spiderhead" by George Saunders and "Bed Among the Lentils" by Alan Bennett. Also. Malevolent nonsense, love, and the opposite of John Green.
Storyological 1.17 - A DIFFERENT KIND OF GHOST
June 20, 2016 12:40 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MBIn which we discuss "presence" by Helen Oyeyemi & "The Man on the Stairs" by Miranda July. Along with, among other things: k-pop, depressive realism, and leaving the reader enough room to make art.
Storyological 1.16 - WEDNESDAY, FULL OF WOE
June 06, 2016 12:37 - 24 minutes - 22.7 MBIn which we discuss stories by Wole Talabi and Mairead Case, along with, among other things, fandom, entitlement, the crushing weight of narrative, and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
Storyological 1.15 - FOR A MINUTE THERE
May 31, 2016 13:21 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MBIn which we discuss two short stories by Kelly Link: "The Game of Smash and Recovery" and "Magic for Beginners." Along with, among other things, Radiohead, entropy, Iain M. Banks, the making of sandwiches, declarative sentences, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Storyological 1.14 - LAMBORGHINIS AND OTHER SIGNIFIERS
May 23, 2016 12:37 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBIn which we discuss "Her Majesty's Lamborghini and the Girl with the Fish Tank" by JY Yang & "You Can't See It 'Til It's Finished" by Joseph Allen Hill, along with, among other things: David Foster Wallace, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and the arbitrary nature of power.
Storyological 1.13 - THE ONE WITH THE SONIC CARROT
May 16, 2016 12:37 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBIn which we discuss "Thandiwe's Tokoloshe" by Nick Wood and "Appliances" by Nikki Alfar. Also advertising, Watchmen, and the cheese man.
Storyological 1.12 - HUNGER. SAINTS. BIRDS.
May 03, 2016 12:37 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBIn which we discuss "Birdwoman" by Pemi Aguda and "Saint of Rabbits" and "Inside the Witch's House" by Carmen Lau, along with, among other things: flight, despair, Superman, writing summary, and the loneliness of grace.
Storyological 1.11 - SOMETHING TO FALL IN LOVE WITH
April 25, 2016 12:36 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MBIn which we discuss "The House of Aunts" by Zen Cho and "Michael Doesn't Hate His Mother" by Marie Vibbert. Also, Jane Austen, Fortresses of Solitude, I Kill Giants, and love.
Storyological 1.10 - NOW I'M ONLY FALLING APART
April 18, 2016 12:37 - 28 minutes - 27 BytesIn which we discuss "The Husband Stitch" by Carmen Maria Machado and "Hwang's Billion Brilliant Daughters" by Alice Sola Kim, along with, among other things: sexism, ribbons, and that one Looney Tunes cartoon.
Storyological 1.09 - SEXY TRAINS ARE SEXY
April 11, 2016 12:37 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBIn which we discuss "Pet Milk" by Stuart Dybek and "Fisherman" by Nalo Hopkinson, along with, among other things, time, sex, flashbacks, and shame.
Storyological 1.08 - ASTROLABES ARE THE FUTURE
April 04, 2016 12:37 - 28 minutes - 30 BytesIn which we discuss "Binti" by Nnedi Okorafor, along with, among other things, astrolabes, writing the other, embodiment, empathy, and
Storyological 1.07 - YOU MUST UNLEARN WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED
March 21, 2016 13:37 - 33 minutes - 32 BytesIn which we discuss "In Her Head, In Her Eyes" by Yukimi Ogawa & "Six Things We Found During the Autopsy" by Kuzhali Manickavel, along with, among other things, Horace and Pete, exotification, Donald Trump, acceptable narratives, and Yoda.
Storyological 1.06 - LATER EVERYTHING
March 14, 2016 13:37 - 27 minutes - 31 BytesIn which we discuss "Pockets" by Amal El-Mohtar & "Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea" by Sarah Pinsker, along with, among other things, Tom Hanks movies, the progress of pilgrims, and VH1's Behind the Music.
Storyological 1.05 - E.G. HAS NEVER SHOT A GRANDMOTHER
March 07, 2016 13:37 - 36 minutes - 34 Bytesin which we discuss stories from Tamsyn Muir and Flannery O'Connor, along with, among other things: the southern gothic, Jane Austen, and the likeable unlikeability of things.
Storyological 1.04 - QUASI-AUTONOMOUS NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
February 29, 2016 13:37 - 31 minutes - 32.4 MBIn which we discuss "The Killing Jar" by Laurie Penny & "The Closest Thing to Animals" by Sofia Samatar, along with, among other things, fantastical bureaucracies, Ricky Gervais, serial killers, true crime, depression, and robot hugs.
Storyological 1.03 - GORGEOUSLY HORRIBLE AND TERRIFICALLY POIGNANT
February 22, 2016 13:37 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MBIn which we discuss "Demon in Aisle 6" by Matthew Kressel & "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers" by Alyssa Wong, among other things, such as eternal recurrence, the dangers of metaphors, Orange County, Lynda Barry, William Faulkner, and Shirley Jackson.
Storyological 1.02 - DEFEATED BY GREATER THINGS
February 15, 2016 13:37 - 36 minutes - 34 BytesWe discuss stories from Etgar Keret and Adam Ehrlich Sachs, along with, among other things, pandora's box, the gothic, the total perspective vortex, empathy and privilege, and hats.
Storyological 1.01 - FINALLY TRIGONOMETRY
February 07, 2016 18:23 - 23 minutes - 22 BytesIn which we discuss: "Angel, Monster, Man" by Sam J. Miller & "Time Travel Club" by Charlie Jane Anders. Among other things. Such as the nature of horror, time travel, and trigonometry. Also, there's some Dickens.