storytelling

77 posts

1. In “Collateral Beauty” and “Passengers,” Two Tales of Gaslighting - The New Yorker December 31, 2016
2. Why Is It So Hard to Get Serial Drama Right in 2016? August 29, 2016
3. Even Superheroes Punch the Clock - The New York Times August 29, 2016
4. Streaming TV Isn’t Just a New Way to Watch. It’s a New Genre. December 30, 2015
5. The restriction of trailers to a few carefully edited minutes October 23, 2015
6. The Story of Your Life September 1, 2015
7. The map of American literature’s most epic road trips July 26, 2015
8. Magic Mike XXL Movie Review & Film Summary (2015) | Roger Ebert July 4, 2015
9. Thrillers June 9, 2015
10. The Robots Are Winning! by Daniel Mendelsohn May 26, 2015
11. A Bewildering Crash - The New Yorker March 31, 2015
12. You Don’t Have To Be Pretty – On YA Fiction And Beauty As A Priority | The Belle Jar December 21, 2014
13. William Gibson Has No Idea How the Future Will See Us November 7, 2014
14. Boring Lives, Boring Television September 24, 2014
15. In the Cut, Part I: Shots in the Dark (Knight) August 2, 2014
16. The less money you take, the more freedom you have June 13, 2014
17. In Defense of the Expert Review | Balder and Dash | Roger Ebert April 19, 2014
18. “Divergent” and “Hunger Games” as capitalist agitprop March 27, 2014
19. Man vs. Corpse November 18, 2013
20. When you explain something based on what broad categories of people do October 16, 2013
21. The Cosmology of Serialized Television September 16, 2013
22. Borges and the Sharknado Problem July 29, 2013
23. Sinking Into the World of 'Upstream Color' With Director Shane Carruth - Movies - BlackBook June 28, 2013
24. The full story is never as tidy as the one that starts with “Obviously” June 6, 2013
25. Intelligent Artifice - The three most common techniques for telling stories in games May 31, 2013
26. Green Screen: The Lack of Female Road Narratives and Why it Matters April 24, 2013
27. The Language of Addiction Takes Over » Helen Rittelmeyer | A First Things Blog April 5, 2013
28. The Descent of Cribs | Quiet Babylon March 14, 2013
29. “It’s more complicated than that” March 13, 2013
30. Definitely Just a Cold - Television Tropes & Idioms February 13, 2013
31. Maps are not only about space; they’re also about time December 29, 2012
32. Every whole person understands his lifetime as an organized story November 20, 2012
33. Why crime movies tend to be intrinsically interesting November 9, 2012
34. Casablanca, or, The Clichés are Having a Ball - Umberto Eco November 8, 2012
35. Philip Gourevitch: Memory is a disease - Salon.com October 1, 2012
36. Directors of the Decade No. 9: The sensualists - Salon.com September 6, 2012
37. Preface banal life wisdom with “My father once taught me…” August 14, 2012
38. Very few things happen at the right time August 13, 2012
39. David Simon | I meant this, not that. But yeah, I meant it. April 25, 2012
40. Los Angeles Review of Books - Life Is Short; Art Is Shorter April 18, 2012
41. If men and women are friends, why do we rarely see it in popular culture? April 9, 2012
42. Real life is messy March 18, 2012
43. Seth's Blog » More About the This American Life Retraction March 17, 2012
44. William Gibson referred to history as “that other form of speculative fiction” March 5, 2012
45. Conspiracy theories and the occult comfort us March 5, 2012
46. Art is cognitive play February 29, 2012
47. thoughts on films: WGA 101 BEST SCREENPLAY LIST RECAP January 17, 2012
48. Louis CK Q&A - JonahWeiner.com January 6, 2012
49. [Transcript] Tyler Cowen on Stories - Less Wrong Discussion December 26, 2011
50. Does cheater deserve a second chance? - Carolyn Hax - The Washington Post November 21, 2011
51. Confidence in Beliefs Is Not a Measure of Evidence Quality October 14, 2011
52. Misinformation in TV Drama Gains Credibility Over Time - Miller-McCune October 14, 2011
53. Video Games Killed the Video-Game Star: Tom Bissell on Dead Island - Grantland September 14, 2011
54. The Smart Set: On the Road Again - July 29, 2011 August 4, 2011
55. I Was on the Streets for More Than Half of My Life June 26, 2011
56. Sports by xkcd May 29, 2011
57. A Happy Ending Depends on Where You Stop Your Story May 19, 2011
58. some of my evaluative patterns May 14, 2011
59. I have always wanted to give a voice to my subjects April 21, 2011
60. Before we learned to tell stories, we learned to read them March 3, 2011
61. The Simple Art of Murder - Raymond Chandler January 15, 2011
62. Raymond Chandler - The Simple Art of Murder January 15, 2011
63. On Den of Geek, an overview of corridors in sci-fi cinema January 12, 2011
64. Anagnorisis - Wikipedia November 30, 2010
65. The Gangster Film vs. The Western November 27, 2010
66. Paris Review - The Art of Nonfiction No. 3, John McPhee November 22, 2010
67. Kind Hearts and Coronets: Decadent Dennis Price | Clothes on Film September 29, 2010
68. To Invigorate Literary Mind, Start Moving Literary Feet June 22, 2010
69. The Bechdel Test » Sociological Images May 24, 2010
70. Tintin means, literally, “Nothing” April 1, 2010
71. Mother :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews March 25, 2010
72. Live | TEDxMidAtlantic: Tyler Cowen on Stories November 6, 2009
73. Storytime: Children tell their own tales October 12, 2009
74. Making the Clackity Noise August 25, 2009
75. Dinner at El Bulli: The Greatest Restaurant in the World August 12, 2009
76. Kseniya Simonova - Sand Animation on Ukraine’s Got Talent August 11, 2009
77. Why we love a good yarn August 5, 2008