Storyological 2.03 - THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS, OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND GET BEHIND THE FEMINIST LOCOMOTIVE

1. “When It Changed” by Joanna Russ. Again, Dangerous Visions. 1972. (pdf)

2. “Fairy Tale” by Alexandra Kleeman. Paris Review. Winter 2010. 

along with, among other things...

Joanna Russ

• An appreciation by Kameron Hurley
• Profile in The Independent
• Obituary, in The Guardian

Alexandra Kleeman

• Phenom. Reviews of her debut novel, You Too Can Have a Body Like MIne in Vice. FT. Vogue called it ‘Fight Club for girls’, so there’s that.
• Her short story collection, Intimations.
• Kleeman on “Fairy Tale” in an interview with The Paris Review. Here in The New Orleans Review on her debut novel.
• How to Write a Heroine, with Patricia Park (video on the YouTube)

Feminism, in various contexts

• Feminism makes waves
• Timeline of the Women’s Liberation Movement, UK.
• That Only a Feminist: Reflections on Women, Feminism and Science Fiction, 1818-1960 by L. Timmel Duchamp

Locomotives and Social Movements

• Cowcatchers, those sharp pointy things at the front of locomotives
• Social Movement Stages: Emergence, Coalescence, Bureaucratization, and Decline (more detail in pdf)
• History of Lesbian, and Bisexual Social Movements

When It Changed

• Is This the End of the West, March 2016.
• Does Trump Herald the End of the West, February 2017.
• The closing of the liberal mind.

On Fiction and Dreams

• Chasing the White Rabbit by Francine Prose
• Kelly Link, in a radio interview, on the ‘Not Quite Dreamy Logic’ of her short story collectionGet in Trouble
• Buddhists, Existentialists and Situationists: Waking up in Waking Life by Doug Mann
• Roger Ebert’s review of Waking Life

Storyological Past

• That one episode, FOR A MINUTE THERE, in which we discussed the stories of Kelly Link.