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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The podcast currently has 85 episodes available.

Storyological episodes:

March 07, 2016Storyological 1.05 - E.G. HAS NEVER SHOT A GRANDMOTHER
In which we discuss,
1. "Union" by Tamsyn Muir, Clarkesworld

2. "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find

Along with, among other things:
some writers
Tamsyn Muir
Flannery O’Connor
How to Tell If You’re in a Flannery O’Connor Story, The Toast
Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
Morality in Flannery O’Connor
In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do this unless his moral judgement is part of the very act of seeing, and he is free to use it. I have heard it said that belief in Christian dogma is a hindrance to the writer, but I myself have found nothing further from the truth. Actually, it frees the storyteller to observe. It is not a set of rules which fixes what he sees in the world. It affects his writing primarily by guaranteeing his respect for mystery... ~ Flannery O'Connor
Shirley Jackson
Paranoia by Shirley Jackson
The Witchcraft of Shirley Jackson by Joyce Carol Oates
H.P. Lovecraft
Holly Black
Jane Austen
The Novel of Social Comedy
Dining with Jane Austen
George Saunders
NYT on 10th of December
The Situation in American Writing
A life in writing
some thoughts about ideas
Uncanny Valley
“Uncanny Valley: why we find human-like robots and dolls so creepy”
“10 Creepy Examples of the Uncanny Valley”
Uncanny Valley: tv tropes
The Southern Gothic
“Why southern gothic rules the world”
“10 Best Southern Gothic Books”
“10 Great Southern Gothic Films”
Refusal of the call to adventure
Chekov’s Gun
...more
37min
February 29, 2016Storyological 1.04 - QUASI-AUTONOMOUS NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
In which we discuss,
1. "The Killing Jar" by Laurie Penny, Motherboard

2. "The Closest Thing to Animals" by Sofia Samatar, Fireside Fiction

Along with, among other things:
Fantastical bureaucracies
Brazil
Beetlejuice
Defending Your Life
The, now somewhat out-of-date but preserved for future generations, list of story stropes Strange Horizons was seeing too much of in 2012.
The Arts Council is absolutely a real thing.
Quasi-autonomous non-governmental organizations.
British vs. U.S. sitcoms
Laurie Penny and the London Riots
Panic on Streets of London
What Really Happened in Trafalgar Square
The Politics of the London Riots (an overview from Rehanna Jones-Boutaleb
True Crime
Making of a Murderer
Serial Podcast
George Saunders
Depression
Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
Jessie Burton, on success, creativity, and the anxious space
Before Sunrise
Kevin Brockmeier
Robot Hugs, "Nest"
...more
32min
February 22, 2016Storyological 1.03 - GORGEOUSLY HORRIBLE AND TERRIFICALLY POIGNANT
In which we discuss
1. "Demon in Aisle 6" by Matthew Kressel, Nightmare Magazine

2. "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers" by Alyssa Wong, Nightmare Magazine

Along with, among other things...
Eternal recurrence

What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: "This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy, and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence? -- even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, a speck of dust!"
Death & The Dangers of Metaphors
”There are no metaphors, or everything is a metaphor”
“Metaphors are dangerous, Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.” - Milan Kundera
“The Cloud and Other Dangerous Metaphors”
“The Perils of Metaphorical Thinking”
“Metaphors” by Sylvia Plath
Love & Scarcity
“Lessons in Love, By Way of Economics”
”Maybe love is just an economy based on resource scarcity” - Father John Misty
Other things
That film Orange County, with Colin Hanks and Kevin Kline. Also, Jack Black.
Lynda Barry
As I Lay Dying
The Haunting of Hill House

'Her little cup,' the mother was explaining, smiling apologetically at the waitress, who was thunderstruck at the thought that the mill's good country milk was not rich enough for the little girl. 'It has stars in the bottom, and she always drinks her milk from it at home. She calls it her cup of stars because she can see the stars while she drinks her milk.'

The Nobel speech where William Faulkner mentioned “the heart in conflict with itself…”
...more
26min
February 15, 2016Storyological 1.02 - DEFEATED BY GREATER THINGS
In which we discuss:
1. "Hat Trick" by Etgar Keret from his collection, The Girl on the Fridge.

2. "The Philosophers" by Adam Ehrlich Sachs from the Feb. 1st, 2016 New Yorker.

http://www.philosophersguild.com/Friedrich-Nietzsche-Little-Thinker.html

Along with, among other things...
Etgar Keret Interview with Granta
Pandora's Box
The Gothic Sublime
Total Perspective Vortex
Interview with Adam Ehrlich Sachs
Monty Python
Jeff Noon
Triptych
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly - into the past."
Between the World and Me: Empathy is a Privilege
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Myth of Sisyphus and Camus' essay.
Shaggy dog stories
"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there."
The Social Meanings of Hats and T-shirts. And more on hats.
Also. Just so you know.
"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things" - Rainer Maria Rilke
Happy reading.
^-^
...more
37min
February 07, 2016 Storyological 1.01 - FINALLY TRIGONOMETRY
In which we discuss:
1. Sam J. Miller's "Angel, Monster, Man" from Nightmare Magazine

Portlandia 2x06

2. Charlie Jane Anders' "Time Travel Club" from Lightspeed.

Back to the future t-shirt by azafran

Along with, among other things...
Oxford comma.
Haunting of Hill House
Frankenstein and the birth of science fiction, horror, feminism. All the things.
A Christmas Carol.
Horror after 9/11: Edited by Aviva Briefel and Sam J. Miller
Ted Chiang on the Future
Trigonometry.
Fight Club.
A list of pirates.
...more
24min

FAQs about Storyological:

How many episodes does Storyological have?

The podcast currently has 85 episodes available.