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Stephen King names his top five Stephen King stories | Far Out | Film
By Calum Russell @Russellisation, Tue 7th Jun 2022 16.00 BST There are few authors, if any at all, that can match the influence of Stephen King, an ingenious creative who has given a tremendous amount of stories to cinema and television. From low-key dramas like Stand By Me, Misery and The Shawshank Redemption to blockbuster…
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The Shifting Unreliability of Memory: A Reading List ‹ Literary Hub
Jo Harkin Recommends Anne Tyler, Meredith Westgate, and More By Jo Harkin, March 2, 2022 Writers are preoccupied with memory. They have to be: a story is, at its most fundamental level, a sequence of memories. You can’t have a plot without memory. Endings need a middle. A middle has to have a beginning. Effect follows cause.…
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‘Storytelling is your best weapon for convincing people’ | The Psychologist
By British Psychological Society, UK, February 2022 There’s the science of storytelling, stories about science, and storytelling in science – bringing elements of storytelling to traditional forms like the journal article. Is that a distinction you’ve considered? Definitely. I’ve done lots of writing about science and had to wrestle with some of the inherent tensions…
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That Time of Year: Chapter One | Garrison Keillor
It’s been an easy life and when I think back, I wish it were a summer morning after a rain and I were loading my bags into the luggage hold of the bus and climbing aboard past Al, the driver, and the bench seats up front to the bunks in back and claiming a low…
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Is there a scientific case for literature? A neuroscientist novelist argues yes | Salon.com
Illogical as it might seem, there may be an evolutionary reason that humans love consuming fiction By Erik Hoel, April 18, 2021 11:30PM (UTC) You do something strange every day. You consume fictions. It’s such an omnipresent habit, shared by all, that we rarely consider the oddity of it. I’m a fiction writer myself, but…
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What old story about yourself do you still believe? |
Many of us hold deeply ingrained beliefs about ourselves that are simply not true. You can start to free yourself from them by editing your narrative, says psychiatrist John Sharp. Watch the YouTube video: https://youtu.be/MN_zmzKT2Wk Source: What old story about yourself do you still believe? |
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The male glance: how we fail to take women’s stories seriously | News | The Guardian
The long read: Male art is epic, universal, and profoundly meaningful. Women’s creations are domestic, emotional and trivial. How did we learn to misread stories so badly? Source: The male glance: how we fail to take women’s stories seriously | News | The Guardian
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Friday Reads: 10 Classic Christmas Stories | JSTOR Daily
Editor’s note: If you follow the link, the stories are all open-access from JSTOR, and there for your pleasure and reading.. Happy Holidays! Source: Friday Reads: 10 Classic Christmas Stories | JSTOR Daily
