In which we discuss,

1. SEASONS OF GLASS AND IRON by Amal El-Mohtar, The Starlit Wood & Uncanny Magazine

2. WHAT IS LOST by Su-Yee Lin, Interfictions

Along with, among other things...

Amal El-Mohtar

Su-Yee Lin

Wordy Stuff

Thematic Stuff

Some Links to Places Where One Might Nominate The Starlit Wood, Among Other Things

Episodes of Storyological Past

In which we discuss,

along with, among other things...

The Ghost of Storyological Past

The Ghost of Storyological Present

The Ghost of Storyological Yet to Come

In which we discuss that one film

along with, among other things...

Cinematical Stuff

Holiday Ephemera

Tropes and Problematicals

In which we discuss, among other things...

Ephemera

Episodes of our podcast

Magazines/Venues/Story Places

In which we discuss,

along with, among other things:

Literariness

Biblicality

People

In which we discuss,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tale_of_Tales_(1979_film)

Along with, among other things:

THE YELLOW VOLUME, the fundraising anthology put out by Emma and I and the rest of our 2012 Clarion Workshop class. Pay what you want, $0 to $Infinity, with all money going to support the Clarion Workshop.

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EG's comic debut, in Shelf Heroes: Issue E, in which she illustrates that one time she went to see Eddie the Eagle with her mum and also life and stuff.

Also.

Filmy Type Things

Literariness

People

In which we discuss two stories by Ted Chiang,

Along with, among other things...

I live in so many centuries. Everybody is still alive.

In which we discuss,

Belle, and her gold dress, from disney's beauty and the beast

Toby Onwumare, sense8

Along with, among other things...

That one episode of Storyological where we discussed “Brokeback Mountain” by Annie Proulx and the tire iron contained therein.

An example of an intoxicating story by Adam Johnson: “Trauma Plate” from The Barcelona Review.

It Gets Better Project

That one episode of Storyological where we discussed “Pet Milk” by Stuart Dybek.

The Doppler Effect.

Hitchcock’s Dolly Zoom.

Park Chan-wook.

BBC adaptations of Narnia.

How Stella Got Her Groove Back

Yoda.

Unsung Live reading series.

“Following” by Irenosen Okojie.

Helen Marshall.

Ted Chiang.

A Song of Ice and Fire/A Game of Thrones

Delia Sherman.

Samuel R. Delany.

In which we discuss,

Leslie Jones, SNL, nbc.com

Along with, among other things...

Guardian review of The World and Other Places

The poetry of Carol Ann Duffy

The Poetics of Aristotle

Now listen to what Hephaestus says in reply: "Take courage, and do not let these things distress you in your heart. Would that I had the power to hide him far away from death and the sounds of grief when grim fate comes to him, but I can see that beautiful armor surrounds him, of such a kind that many people, one after another, who look on it, will wonder"

What is experienced in such an excess of tragic suffering is something truly common. The spectator recognizes himself [or herself] and his [or her] finiteness in the face of the power of fate. What happens to the great ones of the earth has exemplary significance. . . .To see that "this is how it is" is a kind of self-knowledge for the spectator, who emerges with new insight from the illusions in which he [or she], like everyone else, lives.

Moomins!

Show don’t tell.

Which seems a good time to mention that 'show don't tell', while great advice, is not the be all and end all of writing. I had a professor who used to say, it used to be that his writing students couldn't see the wood for the trees, but now, thanks to having 'show don't tell' hammered into them from year 1, most of them can't see the trees for the wood, which is just as bad.

In which we discuss,

1. "Brokeback Mountain" by Annie Proulx, The New Yorker

2. "The Lake" by Tananarive Due, Tor.com

along with, among other things...

Anthony Lane, writing about the film, Brokeback Mountain

“Brokeback Mountain,” which began as an Annie Proulx story in these pages, comes fully alive as the chance for happiness dies. Its beauty wells from its sorrow, because the love between Ennis and Jack is most credible not in the making but in the thwarting.

That one episode of our podcast where we discussed “Ponies” by Kij Johnson

A kind of Scott McCloud diagram

Christopher Cox interviewing Annie Proulx in The Paris Review

They can’t understand that the story isn’t about Jack and Ennis. It’s about homophobia; it’s about a social situation; it’s about a place and a particular mindset and morality. They just don’t get it. I can’t tell you how many of these things have been sent to me as though they’re expecting me to say, Oh great, if only I’d had the sense to write it that way. And they all begin the same way—I’m not gay, but . . . The implication is that because they’re men they understand much better than I how these people would have behaved. And maybe they do. But that’s not the story I wrote. Those are not their characters. The characters belong to me by law.

Tanarive Due’s collection, Ghost Summer, reviewed by Paul Di Filippo in Locus

In “The Lake,” a teacher named Abbie LaFleur arrives in town and naively proceeds to mess with old powers that end up transforming her. But the transformation assumes an allegorical cast, as it brings out the hidden vices of her original flawed nature. Things do not end well.

Winners of the British Fantasy Awards 2016

That one episode of our podcast where we discussed “The Infamous Bengal Ming”

That one book Lolita