Storyological 2.02 - ON MASKS, METEORS, and PRIVILEGE

In which we discuss,

1. “The Venus Effect” by Violet Allen, Lightspeed.

source: /u/Peter_Mansbrick

Listen to an audio version of the story, narrated by Stefan Rudnicki, in a delicious podcast here (=>mp3).

2. “Where We Must Be” by Laura van den Berg, Indiana Review

along with, among other things...

Fate

• Duck Amok
• Shakespeare

Riding the Meta

• That’s So Meta: Writing a Story About Writing a Story
• Adventures in Meta-Fiction with Paul Park
• Let’s Get Meta: Science Fiction About Science Fiction
• The metaficitonal, liminal, lyrical ways of writer Carmen Maria Machado

The Personal is the Political

• The Pitfalls for the Politically Engaged Writer
• The origin of the phrase. Carol Hanisch. February, 1969.

Earnest Indirectness

• Hemingway
• Where the Wild Things Are

Dreams and Monsters

• Lucid dreaming
• A Monster Callsand the Value of Fantasy as Escapism

Storyological Past

• That one episode, LAMBORGHINIS AND OTHER SIGNIFIERS where we discussed Joseph Allen Hill’s story, “You Can’t See It ’Til It’s Done”