Storyological 2.06 - LIE TO ME

Storyological

In which we discuss,

1. "Sabbath Wine" by Barbara Krasnoff, Clockwork Phoenix, 2016.

2. "The Future Looks Good" by Lesley Nneka Arimah, Pank, 2014.

along with, among other things...

Barbara Krasnoff

• Her home on the web
• Videos of her readings.
• Reviews of her work.

Lesley Nneka Arimah

• Her home on the web
• Interview in The New Yorker
• Also. Her story there: “Who Will Greet You at Home”

On Hope and the Lies We Tell Our Children

• Crash Course on Natural Law Theory by Thomas Aquinas
• On the nature of radical hope by Junot Diaz
• "Lies My Parents Told Me", Buffy the Vampire Slayer (see also, "Lie to Me")
• Libertarian free will.
• Crash Course on Determinism vs Free Will

On Biafra and Nigeria

• “Things Left Unsaid” by Chimamanda Adichie, reviewing A Personal History of Biafra by Chinua Achebe
• “The Biafrans who still dream of leaving Nigeria,” BBC

Free Will and Narratives

• The Iron Giant
• “Bullet in the Brain” by Tobias Wolff
• That one Storyological episode, FULLY PROOFED, in which we discussed ZZ Packer’s story, “Every Tongue Shall Confess.”

Wordy People and Things

• Plato and The Republics.
• Depression and Realism
• Homo Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari .

Ephemeric Things

• The Upside Down of Stranger Things.
• Bungee running. It’s a thing.
• Kurt Vonnegut’s rules of writing.
• Sam J. Miller’s, “Life in Fiction 2016.”