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