July 15, 2012
Life Alone Lives Forever: Quest Stories and the Principle of Irreplaceability
I’ve read somewhere (in more than one place, I think) that all stories, or almost all stories, are variations on one story, treasured across cultures and eras, the Quest. The […]
January 4, 2012
The Virtues of Bad Writing
What we go to when we go to literature is an exit. Even social realism is escapist: We escape from ourselves into another self, that of the character. Readers like […]