Storyological

Storyological

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  • Storyological - HOLIDAY SPECIAL, VOL. 4
    Storyological - HOLIDAY SPECIAL, VOL. 4
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    In which we discuss that one film GROUNDHOG DAY,

    along with, among other things...

    Some Other Type Groundhog Day Stuff

    • Ebert’s review. Here’s a quote. Groundhog Day is a film that finds its note and purpose so precisely that its genius may not be immediately noticeable. It unfolds so inevitably, is so entertaining, so apparently effortless, that you have to stand back and slap yourself before you see how good it really is.
    • Danny Rubin talks about how he came to write Groundhog Day
    • Here, in The Guardian, a roundtable discussing how Groundhog Day is the “perfect comedy, for ever.”

      • Some Other Stuff of a Somewhat Related Nature

      • The magnificent wonders of The Secret World of Alex Mack
      • And of The Journey of Natty Gann.
      • Here’s a quote from a review of Natty Gann: “While the movie has a woefully small fanbase (I’ve never met anyone else who has actually seen it), it’s pretty dedicated and mostly made of people who fell in love with Harry (and/or people who liked having a tomboy heroine, to be fair).”
      • Ernest Hemingway said this one thing once: “If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them.”
      • That one film by Richard Curtis in which Andie MacDowell: Four Weddings and a Funeral
      • Also Andie MacDowell was in Magic Mike XXL
      • Some existential reading, to which I might add Sartre’s Nausea and, of course...
      • The Outsider by Colin Wilson
      • Moulin Rouge includes the song “Nature Boy” which includes the line: “the greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”
      • That one television show about an ensouled vampire: Angel. It is a wonderful show full of many existential conundrums. This clip from season 2 of Angel includes perhaps Christopher’s favorite epiphany ever epiphanied on television, or possibly anywhere.

        • Also. Also.

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      • Storyological - HOLIDAY SPECIAL, VOL. 3
        Storyological - HOLIDAY SPECIAL, VOL. 3
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        In which we discuss that one film HOME ALONE,

        along with, among other things...

        Home Alone

        • Ebert’s review
        • Interview with Christopher Columbus
        • Some things compiled by Mental Floss which you may or may not know about Home Alone

          • Other Stuff of a Somewhat Related Nature

          • A marathon of The Lord of the Rings
          • This one Vox video about Natalie Kalmus, The Wizard of Oz and Technicolor
          • Shania Twain in double denim (warning: extreme 90s sexiness)
          • Children of Men
          • Carmen Maria Machado talking about Children of Men
          • Crash Course US History - American revolution

            • Also. Also.

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            24 min
          • Storyological 2.20 - THE WORLD IS OUR SLUSH PILE, PART 2
            Storyological 2.20 - THE WORLD IS OUR SLUSH PILE, PART 2
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            Ephemera

            • Jonathan Safran Foer and the two kinds of despair artists face
            • Stranger Things 2
            • Goonies
            • British Library
            • That one interview with the former Vogue editor

              • Episodes of our podcast

              • Storyological Pocket Interview No. 5 - Joseph Allen Hill
              • 2.02 - On Masks, Meteors, and Privilege
                • “The Venus Effect” by Joseph Allen Hill
                • “Where We Must Be” by Laura van den Berg
                • Storyological 2.04 - That Daniela Romo Moment
                  • “Love” by Yuri Olesha
                  • “The Boy Who Never Cried for Me” by Juliana Delgado Lopera
                  • Storyological 2.09 - Story with a Hole
                    • “He-y Come On Out” by Shinichi Hoshi
                    • “Bring Your Own Spoon” by Saad Hossain
                    • Storyological 2.10 - Daring Darringtons
                      • “The Debutante” by Leonora Carrington
                      • “An Unborn Visitant” by Vita Sackville-West
                      • Storyological 2.11 - (500) Days of Killing Great Auks
                        • “An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk According to One Who Saw It” by Jessie Greengrass
                        • “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin
                        • Storyological 2.12 - Stranger Things
                          • “Created He Them” by Alice Eleanor Jones
                          • “The Last Refuge” by Eduardo Goligorsky
                          • 2.15 - The Gothic Trap
                            • Selections from Super Mutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki
                            • “My Friend Janna” by Emily Carroll
                            • Storyological 2.18 - Lanterny Film Type Machines
                              • “Sleep It Off Lady” by Jean Rhys
                              • “Agata’s Machine” by Camilla Grudova
                              • Storyological 2.19 - Everything You Have
                                • A City Inside by Tillie Walden
                                • “The Transplant” by Viet Thanh Nguyen
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                                • Storyological 2.19 - EVERYTHING YOU HAVE
                                  Storyological 2.19 - EVERYTHING YOU HAVE
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                                  In which we discuss,

                                  1. A City Inside by Tillie Walden, Avery Hill Publishing, 2016.

                                  from tillie walden's a city inside.

                                  2. The Transplant by Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees, 2017.

                                  along with, among other things…

                                  Tillie Walden

                                  • An interview with The Austin Chronicle
                                  • You can read her amazing webcomic, On a Sunbeam in its entirety here.
                                  • A review of A City Inside in Publisher’s Weekly and Broken Frontier.
                                  • A review of her memoir, Spinning, in the Guardian.
                                  • Her Ghibli fan art.

                                    • Viet Thanh Nguyen

                                    • An interview with The Awl
                                    • He won the pulitzer prize for his novel The Sympathizer; here’s a review in the New York Times.
                                    • Various sorts of reviews of his collection, The Refugees in The Rumpus, the LA Times, Necessary Fictions, and the New Yorker.

                                      • Those two magazines we mentioned in the intro

                                      • Passages North
                                      • Bourbon Penn

                                        • Some concerns with time and space and infinities in basements

                                        • Transitions and gutters in comics.
                                        • Scott McCloud, in his TED talk on “The visual magic of comics.”
                                        • Michael Chabon writing about that one story by Borges, “The Aleph” in which there is infinity in a basement.

                                          • On the nature of ships in bottles and adventures in narrative

                                          • A review of Inkheart in Kirkus
                                          • That one Doctor Who episode, “The Girl in the Fireplace” in which the Madame de Pompadour has, through her life, occasional visits from the Doctor.

                                            • Some thoughts on reality and Blade Runner 2049

                                            • Reviewed in Deep Focus Review and by Anthony Lane
                                            • A discussion of its design inspirations
                                            • And, invarious form, arguments and discussion of its feminisms.
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                                            • Pocket Interview No. 5 - VIOLET ALLEN
                                              Pocket Interview No. 5 - VIOLET ALLEN
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                                              Illustration by @egcosh

                                              In which we chat with writer Violet Allen about, among other things…

                                              • Sailor Moon
                                              • Ninja Turtles
                                              • Intertextuality
                                              • Metafiction
                                              • The one power all superheroes share
                                              • The hope and purpose of art.
                                              • Flash Gordon
                                              • and the theme song for the television show Frasier.

                                                • If you enjoy reading interviews more than listening to them, you can click here and read a footnoted version of the interview.

                                                Also. Also.

                                                If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving us a review on iTunes. It helps more readers find their way to our sound space.

                                                Thanks for listening.

                                                Happy reading.

                                                48 min
                                              • Storyological 2.18 - LANTERNY FILM TYPE MACHINES
                                                Storyological 2.18 - LANTERNY FILM TYPE MACHINES
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                                                1. Sleep it Off Lady by Jean Rhys, Sleep it Off Lady, 1976.
                                                2. Agata’s Machine by Camilla Grudova, The White Review, June 2015.

                                                Along with, among other things...

                                                Jean Rhys

                                                • Her interview with The Paris Review
                                                • “A brief survey of the short story: Jean Rhys” by Chris Power, Guardian.
                                                • A review of her book Wide Sargasso Sea, a sort of prelude to Jane Eyre, in the Independent.

                                                  • Camilla Grudova

                                                  • A review in the Guardian of her short story collection, The Doll’s Alphabet, published by Fitzcarraldo.
                                                  • Interviews at The Culture Trip and Publisher’s Weekly.
                                                  • Her Shirley Jackson Award winning story “Waxy” from Granta

                                                    • That one fundraising anthology of stories, interviews, poems, and other such called The Green Volume! which supports the Clarion Workshop.

                                                    Check it out on Gumroad. Pay whatever you want and get some good words in your eyeballs.

                                                    Other stuff of possible interest

                                                    • The Instagram account Murder She Wore.
                                                    • That one episode where we talked about cozy mysteries.
                                                    • That one episode where we talked about stories from Flannery O’Connor and Tamsyn Muir.
                                                    • This list from Buzzfeed which is a list of 29 literary magazines you need to be reading. I mean, of course, you don’t need to read literary magazines. You don’t need to do anything, really. Except maybe eat something now and then. And drink. Drinking is definitely a need. Also friction. Without friction everything ends up everywhere.
                                                    • From the New York _Times_in 2004. “Solitude and the Fortresses of Youth” by Michael Chabon
                                                    • That one book by Colin Wilson from whence I quoted Steppenwolf (the book, not the band) called The Outsider.
                                                    • A book on Tim Burton and Terry Gilliam and others, Masters of the Grotesque
                                                    • That one story by Petina Gappah, “A Short History of Zaka the Zulu”.

                                                      • Also. Also.

                                                      If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps more readers find their way to our sound space.

                                                      Thanks for listening.

                                                      Happy reading.

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                                                    • (archive) Storyological 2.02 - ON MASKS, METEORS, AND PRIVILEGE
                                                      (archive) Storyological 2.02 - ON MASKS, METEORS, AND PRIVILEGE
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                                                      In which we discuss,

                                                      1. “The Venus Effect” by Violet Allen, Lightspeed.

                                                      source: /u/Peter_Mansbrick

                                                      Listen to an audio version of this story, narrated by Stefan Rudnicki, in a delicious podcast here (mp3).

                                                      2. “Where We Must Be” by Laura van den Berg, Indiana Review / Electric Literature / The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008.

                                                      Along with, among other things...

                                                      Fate

                                                      • Duck Amok
                                                      • Shakespeare

                                                        • Riding the Meta

                                                        • That’s So Meta: Writing a Story About Writing a Story
                                                        • Adventures in Meta-Fiction with Paul Park
                                                        • Let’s Get Meta: Science Fiction About Science Fiction
                                                        • The metaficitonal, liminal, lyrical ways of writer Carmen Maria Machado

                                                          • The Personal is the Political

                                                          • The Pitfalls for the Politically Engaged Writer
                                                          • The origin of the phrase. Carol Hanisch. February, 1969.

                                                            • Earnest Indirectness

                                                            • Hemingway
                                                            • Where the Wild Things Are

                                                              • Dreams and Monsters

                                                              • Lucid dreaming
                                                              • _A Monster Calls_and the Value of Fantasy as Escapism

                                                                • Storyological Past

                                                                • That one episode, LAMBORGHINIS AND OTHER SIGNIFIERS where we discussed Joseph Allen Hill’s story, “You Can’t See It ’Til It’s Done”

                                                                  • Also.

                                                                  If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving us a review on iTunes. It helps more readers find their way to our sound space.

                                                                  Thanks for listening.

                                                                  Happy reading.

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                                                                • Pocket Interview No. 4 - CARMEN MARIA MACHADO
                                                                  Pocket Interview No. 4 - CARMEN MARIA MACHADO
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                                                                  Illustration by @egcosh

                                                                  In which we chat with writer Carmen Maria Machado about various things, such as…

                                                                  • Sex
                                                                  • Gender
                                                                  • Television
                                                                  • Anxiety
                                                                  • The revelations of Kate Winslet’s body
                                                                  • Queerness
                                                                  • Children of Men
                                                                  • Law & Order: SVU
                                                                  • And the power of imagining that there are, and have always been, other ways of being

                                                                    • If you enjoy reading interviews more than listening to them, you can click here and read a footnoted version of the interview.

                                                                    Also. Also.

                                                                    If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving us a review on iTunes. It helps more readers find their way to our sound space.

                                                                    Thanks for listening.

                                                                    Happy reading.

                                                                    55 min
                                                                  • Storyological 2.17 - THAT CHILDHOOD ACHE
                                                                    Storyological 2.17 - THAT CHILDHOOD ACHE
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                                                                    In which we discuss,

                                                                    1. Pop Art by Joe Hill, 20th Century Ghosts, 2005.

                                                                    Tomas Brunsdon

                                                                    2. Walkdog by Sofia Samatar, Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories, 2014.

                                                                    Along with, among other things...

                                                                    Joe Hill

                                                                    • On the twitter, @joe_hill.
                                                                    • Pop Art, a (short) film adaptation.

                                                                      • Sofia Samatar

                                                                      • A review of Tender: Stories by Sofia Samatar (where we first encountered “Walkdog”) at NPR.
                                                                      • Some thoughts on “Walkdog” and SFF from Lady Business.
                                                                      • On “Walkdog”, in an interview with Wired:

                                                                        • The story’s in the form of a school paper that is written by a girl who’s a high school student, and she’s writing to her teacher—really in the footnotes and kind of in the corners of this essay—and she’s saying, ‘You’re the grown-up. Why don’t you help us? High school is terrible and hard, and really awful things are happening, and you’re just up there teaching class like everything’s normal.’ And yeah, that’s a feeling that I often have as a teacher. It’s hard to balance ‘What’s the material that I need to cover and the stuff that I need to get through in order to do my job correctly?’ and then ‘When is it time to just drop that material because there’s something going on that my students want to talk about?’ There are things that are happening in life that are so much more important than me getting them to do this curriculum.”

                                                                        Some Other Inflatables

                                                                        • Air Doll
                                                                        • Lars and the Real Girl

                                                                          • Decorating the frames of stories

                                                                          • Howard Hodgkin
                                                                          • “On the fine art of the footnote” by Jonathan Russell Clark
                                                                          • “Do you write in the margins?” by Jonathan H. Liu, writing in Wired.

                                                                            • The Power of Pity

                                                                            • George Saunders
                                                                              • “Al Roosten”
                                                                              • Writing in the Guardian about pathos.
                                                                              • From The Awl, “The Joys of the George Saunders Style Sheet.”
                                                                              • Jack Pendarvis
                                                                                • “Sex Devil”
                                                                                • John Hodgman says: “I like all of the yearning weirdos who wander through the work of Jack Pendarvis. You will like them too, because he reminds us we are all yearning weirdos, looking to the stars, movie and otherwise, for some fate and guidance. These stories are true ha ha funny, courageously strange, humane and affecting, and really, really good."
                                                                                • Joseph Campbell* - [The Power of Myth* ](http://billmoyers.com/content/ep-1-joseph-campbell-and-the-power-of-myth-the-hero%E2%80%99s-adventure-audio/)
                                                                                  • The Hero with a Thousand Faces

                                                                                    • Also. Also.

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                                                                                    Happy reading.

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                                                                                  • Storyological 2.16 - THE NAME OF MY MEMOIR
                                                                                    Storyological 2.16 - THE NAME OF MY MEMOIR
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                                                                                    In which we discuss,

                                                                                    1. "The Dead Father Cookbook" by Ashley Blooms, Strange Horizons, July, 2017.
                                                                                    2. Selections from The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories by Osama Alomar, April, 2017.

                                                                                    Along with, among other things...

                                                                                    Ashley Blooms

                                                                                    • Read her story “Fallow” in Shimmer

                                                                                      • Osama Alomar

                                                                                      • Read “The Beautiful Face”; “The Dog and the Nation”; “Freedom of Expression”; and “The Veil” at Vice.com.
                                                                                      • Read “The Love Letter”, and other selections, at Sampsonia Way.

                                                                                        • the genre of friendly horrors

                                                                                        • Karen Russell
                                                                                        • Judy Budnitz
                                                                                        • Kevin Brockmeier
                                                                                        • Kelly Link

                                                                                          • other things

                                                                                          • The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
                                                                                          • The Cones of Dunshire!
                                                                                          • “Coat of Many Colors” by Dolly Parton
                                                                                          • Mostly True: Collected Stories and Drawings by Brian Andreas
                                                                                          • The first episode of Abstract: The Art of Design featuring Christoph Niemann.

                                                                                            • Also. Also.

                                                                                            If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving us a review on iTunes. It helps more readers find their way to our sound space.

                                                                                            Thanks for listening.

                                                                                            Happy reading.

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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…