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What Does Harper Lee Want?
The author's second novel is the most preordered in her publisher's history. It's also a book she vowed never to publish.
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The Storytelling Secrets of 'This American Life' and Other Top Radio Programs
What makes narrative podcasts and radio shows so good, and so popular?
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Here Be Dragons: On Literary Cartography
Jonathan Russell Clark on “Plotted: A Literary Atlas.”
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Why Are Old Women Often The Face Of Evil In Fairy Tales And Folklore?
Evil stepmothers, witches and crones: When they aren't poisoning princesses, they're mangling mermaids or trying to eat children. One writer traces these villains' roots to a fear of female power. By Elizabeth Blair.
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Charlie Brown Never Found His Little Red-Haired Girl, but We Did
Donna Wold’s hair is now white, not “violently red”, but she still remembers her courtship with a man named Sparky, and the comic strips that read “like an old love letter.” By Darryn King.
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Why story is used to explain symphonies and sport matches alike
We use neat stories to explain everything from sports matches to symphonies. Is it time to leave the nursery of the mind? By Philip Ball.
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Soma, Spice and Substance D: A History of Drugs in Science Fiction
Ever since humans have been telling stories, we've been telling stories about drugs. By Brian Merchant.
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Woven
Every story I have ever told has a kind of breach to it, I think. You could say that my writing isn’t quite right. That all the beginnings have endings in them. By Lidia Yuknavitch.
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What to do when you’re not the hero any more
From Star Wars to Mad Max, a new, more diverse kind of storytelling went mainstream this year - and the backlash shows how much it matters. By Laurie Penny.
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RIP Hugh Walker, 1949 – 2016
My dad, Hugh Walker, died on Saturday. He was 66, and it was a complete shock. Obviously I’m still shattered by it all, but it’s important to me to celebrate the extraordinary person he was, and his impact on my life, as soon as I can. And when it comes to our relationship, gaming was always a feature. By John Walker.
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The Truth
The Truth is an audio drama anthology podcast, short stories that are 10-20 mintues long.
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It’s about time: how sci-fi has described Einstein’s universe
A century after the publication of the general theory of relativity, sci-fi is still grappling with its implications, and still trying to explain it to the rest of us. By Damien Walter.
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Fairy tale origins thousands of years old, researchers say
Fairy tales like Beauty and the Beast can be traced back thousands of years, according to researchers at universities in Durham and Lisbon.
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‘Orson Welles’ Sketch Book,’ marvelous British TV series from 1955
By the mid-1950s the years of Orson Welles scrambling this way and that for some money to finance his cinematic and theatrical efforts were well underway... By Martin Schneider.
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How Wile E. Coyote Explains The World
A joke has structure. It has a central rule. Setup, punchline. The setup produces a tensed, expectant state; the punchline resolves the tension with a surprise. If the elements of the joke are not arranged into a setup and a punchline, it is not a joke. It is just a statement. By Albert Burneko.
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Starring Me! A Surreal Dive Into Immersive Theater
A reporter’s unnerving plunge into 10 events across New York City involving all kinds of audience participation. By Sarah Lyall. (Jan. 7)
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BBC Radio - Programmes categorised as Drama, Available now
Audio Drama available through the BBC.
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With Firewatch, Olly Moss Brings His Subversive Touch to Video Games
A self-taught graphic designer pushes back against the industry’s stale visuals. By Simon Parkin.
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The Lost Childhood’s End
A Tale of Phil DeGuere, The Late 1970s, and Arthur C. Clarke’s Classic Novel. By James Burns.
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Writing Sci-Fi Could Make Architects Better at Their Jobs
Architects aren't usually in the business of writing science fiction—but maybe they should be. By Margaret Rhodes.
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