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Why AI Narrators Will Never Be Able to Tell a Real Human Story

Why AI Narrators Will Never Be Able to Tell a Real Human Story

Adam Verner Explores the Uncanny Valley of Automated Audiobooks

By Adam Verner | September 3, 2025

How Tochi Eze Found Her Writing Voice in Igbo Folklore

How Tochi Eze Found Her Writing Voice in Igbo Folklore

“Myth is not just fabrication or metaphor, it is method and craft.”

By Tochi Eze | August 5, 2025

The Art of Lying: Kate Weinberg on the Similarities Between Fibs and Fiction

The Art of Lying: Kate Weinberg on the Similarities Between Fibs and Fiction

“Let’s be more honest with ourselves and all those who may learn from us: about the slipperiness of truth, about the wonders of fiction.”

By Kate Weinberg | July 30, 2025

The Church of the Screen: A Daughter’s Reflections on an Early Cinematic Education

The Church of the Screen: A Daughter’s Reflections on an Early Cinematic Education

Joanna Howard Explores the Impact of Her Mother’s Passion For Film on Her Own Storytelling

By Joanna Howard | July 10, 2025

What You See Is What You Get: The Optical Illusions That Shape Fiction—and Ourselves

What You See Is What You Get: The Optical Illusions That Shape Fiction—and Ourselves

T.J. Martinson Explores the Narrative Role of Sight on the Page and in the Real World

By T.J. Martinson | May 23, 2025

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Mark B. Perry Celebrates the Quieter Freedoms of Fiction

By Mark B. Perry | May 12, 2025

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Nick Newman Considers the Act of Writing as a Form of (Game) Play

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What We Lost In the Fire: On the Stories We Tell To Fill Life’s Empty Spaces

What We Lost In the Fire: On the Stories We Tell To Fill Life’s Empty Spaces

For Lea Carpenter, “There is a third story, the one told in the second person. This is the story you tell yourself.”

By Lea Carpenter | January 30, 2025

Why Absolute Truth is Still Worth Pursuing In a Narrative-Driven World

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By Jay Nicorvo | January 27, 2025

In Defense of the Messy Queers: Why “Good” Representation Isn”t Enough

In Defense of the Messy Queers: Why “Good” Representation Isn”t Enough

For Edward Underhill, “The fullness of life comes from the struggle.”

By Edward Underhill | January 14, 2025

Betsy Fagin on the Undivided Self, Mystical Verse, and Reimagining Hemingway and Kerouac

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Simple Yet Profound: On the Timelessness of Aesop’s Fables

Simple Yet Profound: On the Timelessness of Aesop’s Fables

Robin Waterfield Explores Some Little-Known Aspects of These Ancient Bite-Sized Tales

By Robin Waterfield | October 24, 2024

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