Concurrent news: Bruce Springsteen’s Streets of Minneapolis : https://x.com/mariashriver/status/2016618469740204114?s=61 https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/bruce-springsteens-streets-minneapolis-anti-ice-protest-song-hits-no-1-rcna256711 Working definitions: With a framework of Retrospective, Contemporary, and Speculative, we can identify examples of works that portray fascism. Retrospective is science fiction that looks back at past fascist events, generally WW2. Contemporary is science fiction that was written to look at what’s happening in […]

Concurrent news: Bruce Springsteen’s Streets of Minneapolis : https://x.com/mariashriver/status/2016618469740204114?s=61 https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/bruce-springsteens-streets-minneapolis-anti-ice-protest-song-hits-no-1-rcna256711 Working definitions: With a framework of Retrospective, Contemporary, and Speculative, we can identify examples of works that portray fascism. Retrospective is science fiction that looks back at past fascist events, generally WW2. Contemporary is science fiction that was written to look at what’s happening in […]

1/30/2026 events: Bruce Springsteen’s Streets of Minneapolis : https://x.com/mariashriver/status/2016618469740204114?s=61 Streets of Minneapolis hits #1: https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/bruce-springsteens-streets-minneapolis-anti-ice-protest-song-hits-no-1-rcna256711 Working definitions: Political theorist Roger Griffin proposes that a myth of palingenesis, or national rebirth, is a minimum requirement for any “true fascism”, in combination with  populism and ultranationalism. Umberto Eco, in his famous essay, “Ur-Fascism”, counts fourteen common features […]

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Richards website: www.richardsparks.com.  Blue Sky: @richardsparks.bsky.social The book publisher: www.caezik.com Story structure: How do the elements that make up the story hold together. Discussed in this episode: High end literary authors: Anthony Trollope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Trollope P.G. Wodehouse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._G._Wodehouse

Richard’s website: www.richardsparks.com.  Blue Sky: @richardsparks.bsky.social The book publisher: www.caezik.com Definition: Story structure—How do the elements that make up a story, hold together.

Richards website: www.richardsparks.com.  Blue Sky: @richardsparks.bsky.social The book publisher: www.caezik.com