Storyological

By E.G. Cosh & Chris Kammerud

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 ... more

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August 22, 2017Pocket Interview No. 3 - AMAL EL-MOHTAR
illustration by @egcosh

In which we chat with writer Amal El-Mohtar about various things, such as…
Moons
Musicals
Orchards
Friendship
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
C.S.E. Cooney
The wonderful wobbliness of time and space
The little bits of magic you find as you travel along the way, there and back again.
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Also. Also.
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52min
August 07, 2017Storyological 2.15 - THE GOTHIC TRAP
In which we discuss,
1. Selections from Super Mutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki, 2015.

2. “My Friend Janna” by Emily Carroll, Through the Woods, 2014.

along with, among other things...
Jillian Tamaki
This One Summer
“An Interview with Jillian Tamaki” by Rachel Davies in Rookie Mag
Emily Carroll
Neko Case’s “Wild Creatures” illustrated Emily Carroll, in Past Magazine.
An interview with Emily Carroll: A Fairy-Tale Teller in the Digital Age, by Taryn Hubbard at Room.
An Alchemical Mix
The setting is a satirical melange of X-Men, Harry Potter and teen dramas like Degrassi, all of which Tamaki cheerfully admits only passing familiarity with. “I had just done Strange Tales,” she recalled, a Marvel Comics anthology of cartoonists who would never otherwise draw any Marvel comic.
“Jillian Tamaki: 'I need to spend less time in the minds of straight men’”, a profile, and review, from Chris Randle in The Guardian.
“SuperMutant Magic Academy' Is Hogwarts With Nuts (And A Cherry)” by Etelka Lehoczy, writing for NPR Books.
I am the love that dare not speak it’s name
A phrase from the poem “Two Loves” by Alfred Douglas, brought up at Oscar Wilde’s indecent trial concerning his supposed indeceny and sodomy, and which may or may not actually have anything in particular to do with what you think it has to do with depending on what you think it has to do with.
You can read “Two Loves” by Alfred Douglas here.
You know what this story reminded me of?
Twelfth Night, also featuring a love which dare not speak.
Charles Schultz, writer of Peanuts. You know that Snoopy comic.
“I am an animal trapped in your hot car.”
Here Dead We Lie by A.E. Housman.
Queerness, among other things, in The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, in an article by Brit Mandelo at Tor.com.
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40min
July 24, 2017Storyological 2.14 - OF STARS AND SOPS
In which we discuss,
1. “The Sweet Sop” by Ingrid Persaud, Granta, 2017.

2. “Swimmer Among the Stars” by Kanishk Tharoor, Swimmer Among the Stars, 2017.

Along with, among other things...
Ingrid Persaud
“T&T’s author Ingrid Persaud wins the 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize”, Daily Express, 2017.
Commonwealthwriters.org
Kanishk Tharoor
“Elephants Escape Time and Space in These Stories’ Porous Borders” by Meron Hadero, New York Times review of Swimmer Among the Stars.
Kanishk Tharoor, writing about James Baldwin, on his website, kanishktharoor.net. Originally published in the Hindu Blink, February 2017.
Other various
That one video by John Green, Civil Twilight (YouTube), herwith a transcript from nerdfighteria.
That one ode to nutella.
That one book, The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross, in which some advice is given to Duke Ellington about ‘reversing your figures.’
That one bookshop, Any Amount of Books, wherein I discovered Swimmer Among the Stars with former Strange Horizons editor, Niall Harrison.
That one book by Randall Munroe (of XKCD), The Thing Explainer.
Also. Also.
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37min
July 10, 2017Pocket Interview No. 2 - SAM J. MILLER
@eGcosh

In which we chat with Sam J. Miller, author of the new novel The Art of Starving, about various things, such as…
Desire
Shame
Hope
Bullies
RuPaul
The Talented Mr. Ripley
James Baldwin
Grief
Sense8 vs. Game of Thrones
Understanding monsters
The dubious magic of violence
How to keep going in this life that sometimes just fucking sucks
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47min
June 26, 2017Storyological 2.13 - POCK SMASH!
In which we discuss,
1. “Whatever Happened to Interracial Love” by Kathleen Collins, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love, 2017.

2. "The Embassy of Cambodia” by Zadie Smith, The New Yorker, 2013.

Along with, among other things...
Kathleen Collins
Kathleen Collins’ story, “Interiors” in A Public Space.
Alexandra Alter on how “Kathleen Collins’s Short Stories Were Almost Lost to History,” in 2016 in the New York Times.
Kathleen Collins’ film, Losing Ground, “A Lost Masterwork…” discussed in The New Yorker in 2015.
Zadie Smith
Lousie Doughty reviews of “The Embassy of Cambodia,” for Guardian in 2013.
Zadie Smith, “On Optimism and Despair,” in The New York Review of Books, 2016.
Zadie Smith, writing about Joni Mitchell, in The New Yorker, 2012.
Zadie Smith’s rules for writers, Guardian, 2010.
Some ideas of progress
“Failed Idealism: The Big Chill, Revisited” by Tim Jones, Stubborn Things, 2016.
”Realistic idealists” by Alex Williams, New York Times, 2005.
Some other stories these stories made us think of
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.
The Freedom Maze by Delia Sherman.
“Little Acorns“ by The White Stripes (link is to YouTube video).
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38min
May 29, 2017 Storyological 2.12c - EN EL ÚLTIMO REDUCTO (Strange Horizons podcast!)
In which we post Strange Horizons' podcast of David Bowles reading Eduardo Goligorsky's "En El Último Reducto" in the original Spanish.
This is part of our crossover with Strange Horizons. They are cool people. That make a cool magazine. Check them out.
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24min
May 29, 2017 Storyological 2.12b - THE LAST REFUGE (Strange Horizons podcast!)
In which we post Strange Horizons' podcast of editor Anaea Lay reading Eduardo Goligorsky's "The Last Refuge", as translated by Andrea Bell.
This is part of our crossover with Strange Horizons. They are cool people. That make a cool magazine. Check them out.
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21min
May 29, 2017 Storyological 2.12a - CREATED HE THEM (Strange Horizons podcast!)
In which we post Strange Horizons' podcast of editor Anaea Lay reading Alice Eleanor Jones's "Created He Them."
This is part of our crossover with Strange Horizons. They are cool people. That make a cool magazine. Check them out.
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31min
May 29, 2017Storyological 2.12 - STRANGER THINGS
In which we discuss,
1. ”Created He Them" by Alice Eleanor Jones, Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the 20th Century, ed. Justine Larbalestier. (orig. F&SF June, 1955).

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2. ”The Last Refuge” by Eduardo Goligorsky, Cosmos Latinos, ed. Andrea Bell and Yolanda Molina Gavilán, 2003. (orig. 1967).

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Along with, among other things...
Alice Eleanor Jones
"Mid-Century Feminist Science Fiction Pioneers" by Sharon Patry
Matthew Cheney’s discussion of Created He Them, back in 2006, over at Mumpsimus.
Eduardo Goligorsky
SciFi Latino's review of Cosmos Latinos
And the second, of their many more parts, of that review.
Mansplaining
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
That one essay from that collection, “More Equal Than Others,” which Emma mentions in the podcast.
The title essay from that collection, “Men Explain Things to Me,” published in Guernica.
A history of the term “mansplaining” by Lily Rothman, The Atlantic.
Some Biblical Footnotes
Various translations of the verse from whence comes the title of Alice Eleanor Jones’ story.
Some meanings of Adam.
Thrill Me by Benjamin Percy
The Power of Photographs
On Photography, an essay (and book) by Susan Sontag
How Photography Connects Us, a TED talk by the photo director for National Geographic
Art of an Otherwise and Cinematic Nature
(500) Days of Summer, which actually begins with a slightly different quote than Chris quoted because words rearrange themselves when you're not looking.
"Pan's Labyrinth and the Spanish Civil War" by Richard Silverstein
Children of Men
I'm a leaf on the wind.
Hell is other people.
Two households both alike in dignity.
Also.
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30min
May 15, 2017Storyological 2.11 - (500) DAYS OF KILLING GREAT AUKS
In which we discuss,
1. ”An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk According to One Who Saw It” by Jessie Greengrass, 2015.

2. ”Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin, Going to Meet the Man, 1965.

along with, among other things...
Jessie Greengrass
A review of An Account Of The Decline Of The Great Auk, According To One Who Saw It, Rachel Hore, The Independent.
James Baldwin
The short story, Going to Meet the Man, from the Black Lives Matter syllabus.
A review of Going to Meet the Man, Stanley Kauffman, New York Times, 1965.
The Vanishing State of Things
Millions of Missing Birds, Vanishing in Plain Sight by Verlyn Klinkenborg, New York Times, 2007.
Another Country: James Baldwin’s flight from America by Claudia Roth Pierpont, New Yorker, 2009.
The Harlem Day
The Harlem Renaissance.
Teaching the Controversy: James Baldwin and Richard Wright in the Ferguson Era
The Times Obituary for James Baldwin
You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.
Excerpts from an interview with James Baldwin.
A diagram of a sentence by James Baldwin.
Some Other Art Objects Which We Discussed While Discussing These Art Objects
Swing Time, as reviewed by Roger Ebert.
(500) Days of Summer, as reviewed here, also, by Roger Ebert. I miss that man.
Fight Club, as reviewed by Nathan Rabin.

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28min

FAQs about Storyological:

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The podcast currently has 85 episodes available.