Category Archives: Storytelling

Relishing Alexander Chee’s How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

I got off to a slow start with Alexander Chee’s How to Write an Autobiographical [...]

Reading Between the Lines of 9 ½ Weeks

However, as a work of fiction, it stands as exquisitely powerful storytelling of a woman [...]

Seeking Inspiration from Fiction

The Cheerleader captures what it feels like to be a teen and trying to figure [...]

The Stories We Need to Hear About Mental Health

May, mental health awareness month, makes me more aware than usual of the standard narrative [...]

Perspective Please: Bad Vegan fails to address addiction and mental health

Netflix nailed handling how the nuances of racism played out in the two-hour documentary The [...]

Afterparties—A Masterpiece

Author Dana Spiotta noted So’s ease with traversing so many different subjects, “from pop culture [...]

Freedom Writers Movie Misrepresented Teachers

How teachers are characterized in the 2007 movie Freedom Writers makes me jump out of [...]

The Voice’s Paris Winningham Spills His Heart and Soul on Stage

What would it sound like if you were singing for your life? Singing to stay [...]

When Inspiration Accosts You—Write a Short Story

Former mayor of Stockton Michael Tubbs gave a recent interview to the Los Angeles Times [...]

Could modern psychiatry save Sylvia Plath?

Why would a brilliant, young, beautiful woman kill herself? Heather Clark’s new biography, Red Comet: [...]