May 08, 2018

Storyological 3.06 - DANCING ETYMOLOGIES

40 minutes

In which we discuss,

1. “The Dancing Master” by Alexandra Kleeman. Intimations, 2016. (read online)

2. “Last” by Ali Smith, Public Library, 2015.(read online)

along with, among other things…

That one film Amelie

That one Richard Ford quote from his interview with the Paris Review in which he talks about characters not having character

I certainly think we have histories. And based on them we can purport to have characters—invent or allege character, in a sense. And sometimes histories predict what people will do. Though often not. But character is just one of those human pseudo-essences that is often used detrimentally. Certainly a lot of modern fiction derives its drama from the conflict between assumed character and some specific action that deviates from it.

That one other film Marie Antoinette.

The origin of ballet.

One of Alexandra’s other stories, “Fake Blood.”

Stories of wild children

Alice Hoffman is the person who said, “Books may well be the only true magic.”

That one episode of Storyological in which we discussed “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

That one interview in which we talked with Sofia Samatar.

That essay from which that quote from George Saunders about gas stations. (pdf)

Also. Also.

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