Storytelling for Human Beings

Storytelling for Human Beings

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We Have This in Common
The commonplace book as literary ligament, curated inspiration, and communal memory
 • Allen Morris Jones
Artificial Intelligence and the Erosion of Fact-Based Storytelling
A pretty little political theory and an ass-ugly prediction
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Toward a Gestalt of Storytelling
Is there a biological inclination to see patterns in our stories?
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What's it Take to Make a Hero?
"Fiction is one of the few constructive human activities in which we have the potential to make something from almost nothing..." —Walter Mosley
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Under the Covers
The best book covers raise some sort of a question. They offer problems with the promise of solutions. They urge you to open the book.
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Delicious Villainy
On our biological predisposition to look for evil and ill intent
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The Greatest Short Story Writer You've Probably Never Heard Of
A few thoughts on literary effort, anonymity, and the necessity of creation
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Storytelling for Human Beings
Storytelling for Human Beings
To help you tell your best story, a novelist, editor, and poet explores our evolved, biological predisposition toward storytelling
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