Stories (the good ones, anyway) tell us more than an entertaining tale—they tell us why the world is the way it is, as well as the way it should be. In this way, fiction is often more real than non-fiction. Everyone should read fiction, especially folks who want to know how the world works and how we're called to make it better. Seth & Tsh unpack why good stories do just that.

* Seth’s Newsletter & Website

* Tsh’s Newsletter & Website

* Pick up a round of drinks

* Our recommended reads

* The Observationalist, by Seth

* Pre-order Seth & Amber’s new book, The Deep Down Things

* Pre-order Tsh’s journal, First Light & Eventide

* The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway

* Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë

* Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr

* The Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett

* It Can’t Happen Here, by Lewis Sinclair

* The Awakening of Miss Prim, by Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera

* Free class: The Rise & Fall of the Roman Republic

* Tsh’s essay on leaving Instagram, one year later

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