Storyological 1.30 - WHEN RUMPELSTILTSKIN COMES AROUND

In which we discuss,

1. “You Have Never Been Here” by M. Rickert, Lightspeed

2. “Spinning Silver” by Naomi Novik, The Starlit Wood

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tale_of_Tales_(1979_film)

Along with, among other things:

THE YELLOW VOLUME, the fundraising anthology put out by Emma and I and the rest of our 2012 Clarion Workshop class. Pay what you want, $0 to $Infinity, with all money going to support the Clarion Workshop.

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EG's comic debut, in Shelf Heroes: Issue E, in which she illustrates that one time she went to see Eddie the Eagle with her mum and also life and stuff.

Also.

Filmy Type Things

• Arrival
• The Pallbearer
• The Lobster
• The Shawshank Redemption
• The Dark Crystal
• Doctor Who, and the Doctor’s radical hope.

Literariness

• Death House by Sarah Pinborough
• Uprooted by Naomi Novik
• The Starlit Wood, edited by Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe
• A Song of Ice and Fire
• Rumplestiltskin
• A Day in the Life of Half of Rumplestiltskin by Kevin Brockmeier
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humanity by Yuval Noah Harari

People

• George Saunders, and finding the right details

Storyological 1.16 - WEDNESDAY, FULL OF WOE

In which we discuss...

1. "Wednesday’s Story" by Wole Talabi, Lightspeed

2. "See You in the Morning" by Mairead Case, Midnight Breakfast

along with, among other things,

• Two nursery rhymes from which, in part, “Wednesday’s Story” comes…
  • Solomon Grundy
  • Monday’s Child
• Author Spotlight: Wole Talabi, by Christie Yant.
• Aesop's fables.
• October in the Chair by Neil Gaiman.
• Trapped in narratives
  • “A people trapped in narratives and memories : facing pacification in the Great Lakes Region of Africa” by Tshimba David Ngendo

  • People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. ~James Baldwin
    

• Devin Faraci. “Fandom is Broken”
• The ending of Jay and Silent Bob
• Some writing in response to Devin’s writing
  • “Fandom isn’t broken-it’s just not only for white dudes anymore”
  • “Why we’re terrified of fanfiction”
  • “A response to Devin Faraci’s ‘Fandom is Broken’ in three parts”
  • Devin, himself, in response to responses, “Yes, Disney Should Have a Queer Princess”
• Michael Knight
• Why does Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye still resonate?
• Diary of a Teenage Girl

Storyological 1.11 - SOMETHING TO FALL IN LOVE WITH

In which we discuss

1. "The House of Aunts" by Zen Cho, Giganotosaurus

2. "Michael Doesn't Hate His Mother" by Marie Vibbert, Lightspeed

along with, among other things...

• Pontianak
• Last week’s podcast with “Hwang’s Billion Brilliant Daughters” and “The Husband Stitch”
• Jane Austen
• Literary monsters
• Terry Pratchett isn’t jolly. He’s angry.
• “I Shall Wear Midnight”
• Food, Glorious Food
• Will, in The Subtle Knife
• Sam J. Miller’s, “Clarion 2012: Every Brilliant Piece of Writing Advice”, including, among other things, start with the goosebumps
• Flowers in the Attic
• “Solitude and the Fortresses of Youth” by Michael Chabon
• I Kill Giants
• Holly Black, in an interview with To the Best of our Knowledge talking about literalizing feelings.
• Chesterton on fairy tales
• Gaiman paraphrasing Chesterton
• Ending of Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail