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Susan Sontag on Storytelling, What It Means to Be a Good Human Being, and Her Advice to Writers
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
William Gass’s novel Omensetter’s Luck.
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
No One Is an Island
Steven Hayes • A Liberated Mind: The essential guide to ACT
The life of a human, according to the Scottish philosopher David Hume, was of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
Matt Haig • The Midnight Library: The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and worldwide phenomenon
Human environments are rich with clues about those who occupy them.
Will Storr • The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better
No, a fear of ourselves, because we know what we are capable of doing to each other when we are possessed by these convictions.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
However, an imagined order cannot be sustained by violence alone. It requires some true believers as well.