September 18, 2018

Storyological 3.08 - A CINDERELLA STORY

29 minutes

In which we discuss,

1. “Gerd, the Girl with Too Many Arms” by Zachary Doss, Paper Darts, 2016 (read online).

2. “The Thankless Child” by Daniel Mallory Ortberg, The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror, 2018.

along with, among other things…

The stories of Aimee Bender

Dolly Parton and her “Coat of Many Colors” (video)

Star wars, myth, and fairy tales

Linear regression and the function of stories

Disney’s Cinderella (video)

That one interview we did with Alyssa Wong

Magical trees and bushes and Cinderella

Naomi Novik’s, Spinning Silver

Hegemony, one definition of

Magic vacuum cleaners (I couldn’t find a link for this but rest assured we do talk about it)

Fairy tale logic is, among other things, a poem by A.E. Stallings

Also. Also.

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Happy reading.

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