Storyological

Storyological

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  • Storyological 4.01 - INFINITE SNOW PLOWS AND THE PERFECT UNRECKONING
    Storyological 4x01 - Infinite Snow Plows And The Perfect Unreckoning
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    In which we discuss,

    1. "Sweet on the Tongue" by Roxane Gay, Ayiti, 2017 (read online in LitHub)
    2. "Parakeets" by Kevin Brockemeier, View from the Seventh Layer (read online in Granta)

    Along with, among other things...

    • That one book, Grief Works by Julia Samuel
    • That one film, Take This Waltz
    • And that other film, The Abyss
    • Also, Safety Not Guaranteed and I’m a Cyborg but That's Okay
    • A discussion from the episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer called "Lie to Me" (a YouTube clip of that discussion)
    • That one bookstore Pages of Hackney, a most excellent indie bookstore in London which you should visit
    • A poem quoted in Before Sunrise by W.H. Auden, “As I Walked Out One Evening”
    • An interview with Kevin Brockmeier did with Chris for The Yalobusha Review

      • Also. Also.

      If you enjoyed this episode, two things.

      1) Check out our Patreon page where you can support us in our mission to talk about all of the things about all of the stories. Any pledge gets you access to our patron-only feed wherein stuff. Also. If you pledge $3 a month, you can get Chris' monthly newsletter in which he reviews, more or less, everything.

      2) Consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps more readers find their way to our sound space. Which is cool.

      Thanks for listening.

      Happy reading.

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    • Storyological - HOLIDAY SPECIAL, VOL. 6
      Storyological - HOLIDAY SPECIAL, VOL. 6
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      In which we discuss Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang

      along with among other things:

      • Pauline Kael and her book, Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang
      • Lethal Weapon series
      • Breaking the Fourth Wall and the French New Wave by Tiffany Chan
      • That one comedy starring Val Kilmer from before, Top Secret! (trailer)
      • Hot Shots, Part Deux!
      • The sad sack hero. For example. Arthur Dent. Bridge Jones. Any number of noir detectives.
      • People who care more than than they have the capability with which to deal

        • Also. Also.

        If you enjoyed this episode, two things.

        1) Check out our Patreon page where you can support us in our mission to talk about all of the things about all of the stories. Any pledge gets you access to our patron-only feed wherein stuff. Also. If you pledge $3 a month, you can get Chris' monthly newsletter in which he reviews, more or less, everything.

        2) Consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps more readers find their way to our sound space. Which is cool.

        Thanks for listening.

        Happy reading.

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      • Storyological - HOLIDAY SPECIAL, VOL. 5
        Storyological - HOLIDAY SPECIAL, VOL. 5
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        In which we discuss the classic holiday film, In Bruges,

        along with among other things

        • The Belcourt Cinema in Nashville
        • Pride and Prejudice and Assassins (a not real thing unfortunately)
        • The entirely arbitrary but important seeming distinction between cruelty and meanness
        • Titles beginning with prepositions
        • The planes of Star Wars
        • That one episode of Storyological Past in which we talked about the Daphne du Maurier story, “Don’t Look Now.”
        • The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
        • Love as a recognition of one’s own failings and someone else’s possibility
        • Our interview with Amal El-Mohtar
        • Innsbruck, a city not in Germany so much as Austria

          • Also.

          If you enjoyed this episode, two things.

          1) Check out our Patreon page where you can support us in our mission to talk about all of the things about all of the stories. Any pledge gets you access to our patron-only feed wherein stuff. Also. If you pledge $3 a month, you can get Chris' monthly newsletter in which he reviews, more or less, everything.

          2) Consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps more readers find their way to our sound space. Which is cool.

          Thanks for listening.

          Happy reading.

          17 min
        • Storyological 3.13 - THE WORLD IS OUR SLUSH PILE, VOL. 3: LOOK OUT REALITY, HERE WE COME!
          Storyological 3.13 - The World is Our Slush Pile, Vol 3: Look Out Reality, Here We Come!
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          In which we discuss, among other things, such things as these

          Episodes of Storyological Past

          • Storyological 3.01 - Lick It Justin Bieber, in which we talked about “Report on the Thing” by Clarice Lispector and “Cat Person” by Kristen Roupenian
          • Storyological 3.11 - The Triumph of Uncertainty, in which we discussed the book Mixed-race Superman by Will Harris
          • Storyological 3.07 - Wrestling with a Hippo, in which we discussed Jenny Zhang's “The Empty, The Empty, The Empty”
          • Storyological 3.04 - On the Nature of Things Related to Rivers and Sitcom Pornos, in which we crossed over with Electric Literature and discussed Banana Yoshimoto's “Strange Tale from Down by the River.”
          • Storyological 3.09 - Stranger Things 2, in which we crossed over with Strange Horizons and discussed “Directions” by Judy Budnitz and “Fisherman” by Nalo Hopkinson
          • Storyological 2.04 - That Daniela Romo Moment, in which we discussed “The Boy Who Never Cried for Me” by Julia Delgado

            • Ephemera

            • Sorry to Bother You
            • An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
            • Mandy, that one film starring Nicholas Cage
            • That one Japanese Breakfast gig what Chris went to see and wrote a review of which you can read here.
            • Elizabeth Bowen
            • Marc Maron and his podcast WTF, in particular this one interview with Jason Reitman and a bit about aiming towards true
            • Fred Armisen
            • Atlanta, which Chris wrote about here.
            • Janelle Monae's Dirty Computer
              • Philip Roth, on reality outpacing fiction
              • That one thing Kafka said
              • Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
              • I Love Lucy

                • Also.

                If you enjoyed this episode, two things.

                1) Check out our Patreon page where you can support us in our mission to talk about all of the things about all of the stories. Any pledge gets you access to our patron-only feed wherein stuff. Also. If you pledge $3 a month, you can get Chris' monthly newsletter in which he reviews, more or less, everything.

                2) Consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps more readers find their way to our sound space. Which is cool.

                Thanks for listening.

                Happy reading.

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              • Storyological 3.12 - ON DEATH AND ZOOEY DESCHANEL
                Storyological 3x12 - ON DEATH AND ZOOEY DESCHANEL
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                In which we discuss,

                1. "When We Were Happy We Had Other Names" by Yiyun Li, New Yorker, 2018.
                2. "Don't Look Now" by Daphne du Maurier, Not After Midnight, 1971.

                along with, among other things...

                • Gandalf's magical walking stick, a reddit discussion
                • Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz discussing British slang, Youtube
                • That one episode of Storyological where we discussed Stuart Dybek's story, "Pet Milk"
                • The Human Stain by Philip Roth, a review
                • The Artist's Way, thought over many years after its publication
                • The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, a blog by litbitch about it (also, recently, a Netflix thing)
                • That one other Daphne du Maurier short story, "The Birds"

                  • Also.

                  If you enjoyed this episode, two things.

                  1) Check out our Patreon page where you can support us in our mission to talk about all of the things about all of the stories. Any pledge gets you access to our patron-only feed wherein stuff. Also. If you pledge $3 a month, you can get Chris' monthly newsletter in which he reviews, more or less, everything.

                  2) Consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps more readers find their way to our sound space. Which is cool.

                  Thanks for listening.

                  Happy reading.

                  34 min
                • Storyological 3.11 - THE TRIUMPH OF UNCERTAINTY
                  Storyological 3x11 - THE TRIUMPH OF UNCERTAINTY
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                  In which we discuss,

                  Mixed-Race Superman by Will Harris, Peninsula Press, 2018.

                  along with, among other things...

                  • Inception, that one film by the super dreamy Christopher Nolan
                  • The notion of the bildunsgroman
                  • Crash Course: Literature
                  • The Photographer's Gallery
                  • What it means to be British according to Emma's mum
                  • Superheroes and how knowing yourself involves hiding behind a mask
                  • That one speech from Sense8
                  • Marc Maron’s, WTF

                    • Also. Also.

                    If you enjoyed this episode, two things.

                    1) Check out our [Patreon page][13] where you can support us in our mission to talk about all of the things about all of the stories. Any pledge gets you access to our patron-only feed wherein stuff. Also. If you pledge $3 a month, you can get Chris' monthly newsletter in which he reviews, more or less, everything.

                    2) Consider [leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts][14]. It helps more readers find their way to our sound space. Which is cool.

                    Thanks for listening.

                    Happy reading.

                    27 min
                  • Storyological 3.10 - DOROTHY PARKER WAS HERE
                    Storyological 3x10 - DOROTHY PARKER WAS HERE
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                    In which we discuss,

                    1. “Dusk Before the Fireworks" by Dorothy Parker
                    2. "Big Blonde" by Dorothy Parker (read online)

                    along with, among other things...

                    • Shelf Heroes: Volume H, an issue of that indie film magazine in which E.G. and Chris both appear.
                    • Commercials for country time lemonade
                      • An overabundance of perspective
                      • Mike Birbiglia
                      • The quotable Dorothy Parker
                      • Curtis Sittenfeld, You Think It, I’ll Say It (we discussed her story, “Vox Clamantis in Deserto,” previously on the podcast here, in episode 3x07.)
                      • Stories of just two people talking
                        • Before Sunrise
                        • "Hills Like Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway (read online)
                        • "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" by Joyce Carol Oates (read online)
                        • The mysteries of Isaac Asimov
                        • The theatrics of Anna Karenina, as directed by Joe Wright
                        • Hannibal

                          • Also. Also.

                          If you enjoyed this episode, two things.

                          1) Check out our Patreon page where you can support us in our mission to talk about all of the things about all of the stories. Any pledge gets you access to our patron-only feed wherein stuff. Also. If you pledge $3 a month, you can get Chris' monthly newsletter in which he reviews, more or less, everything.

                          2) Consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps more readers find their way to our sound space. Which is cool.

                          Thanks for listening.

                          Happy reading.

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                        • Storyological 3.09 - STRANGER THINGS 2
                          Storyological 3x09 - Stranger Things 2
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                          In which, along with a new intro discussion, we pull from our archives discussions of,

                          1. "Directions" by Judy Budnitz, Flying Leap (read online in strange horizons)
                          2. "Fisherman" by Nalo Hopkinson, Skin Folk (read online in strange horizons)

                          along with, among other things

                          • Aimee Bender
                            • That one story by Aimee Bender with a family in a house and weird stuff happens “Americca”; not to be confused with Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
                            • That one story by Aimee Bender where the dad has a hole in his stomach “Marzipan.”
                            • The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
                            • In the uncharted backwaters…
                            • That one setting for photography—HDR, which is actually not high-dynamic-resolution but, of course, HIGH-DYNAMIC-RANGE IMAGING.Silly words.
                            • The importance of CHORUSES, as explained by Chuck Pahlianuk
                            • Edgar Allen Poe and his SINGLE EFFECT
                            • Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
                            • “The Fuzzy Genre Set” by Sessily Watt
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                            • Storyological 3.08 - A CINDERELLA STORY
                              Storyological 3x08 - A CINDERELLA STORY
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                              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.

                                If you enjoyed this episode, two things.

                                1) Check out our Patreon page where you can support us in our mission to talk about all of the things about all of the stories. Any pledge gets you access to our patron-only feed wherein stuff. Also. If you pledge $3 a month, you can get Chris' monthly newsletter in which he reviews, more or less, everything.

                                2) Consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps more readers find their way to our sound space. Which is cool.

                                Thanks for listening.

                                Happy reading.

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                              About Storyological

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                              Storyological 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…