Showing posts with label C. S. Lewis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label C. S. Lewis. Show all posts
Thursday, May 29, 2025

The Power of Stories

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The blog of fantasy author Deborah J. Ross, "In Troubled Times," includes a post on the healing function of stories: How Stories...
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Stages of Enchantment

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The latest issue of MYTHLORE (the journal of the Mythopoeic Society) contains a review of a book called ART AND ENCHANTMENT: HOW WONDER WORK...
Thursday, December 12, 2024

Old-Fashioned Holidays

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Having recently discovered we own a copy of Washington Irving's SKETCH BOOK, published around 1820 (one of the books we inherited from m...
Thursday, June 20, 2024

Do Spoilers Really Spoil?

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The latest issue of SKEPTICAL INQUIRER includes an article exploring whether advance exposure to spoilers actually makes the experience of r...
Thursday, May 02, 2024

RavenCon 17 (April 2024)

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Last weekend, my husband, our daughter, and I attended RavenCon near Richmond, Virginia. Here's the convention's website. Informatio...
Thursday, April 11, 2024

Art Versus Life

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A work of art (specifically, literature, including poetry such as song lyrics) does not necessarily reveal the life or personality of the ar...
Thursday, November 16, 2023

Bad People Versus Bad Institutions

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In his latest LOCUS essay, Cory Doctorow discusses whether "all the internet services we enjoyed and came to rely upon became suddenly ...
Thursday, September 28, 2023

In Celebration of Happy Endings

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In fiction, is a sad conclusion more "realistic" than a happy one? "The belief seems to be that tragic or unhappy endings are...
Thursday, December 08, 2022

Commercialized Holidays

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Recently I saw a Facebook post lamenting the materialistic nature of the Christmas season nowadays. The holidays focus too much on buying an...
Thursday, November 17, 2022

The Purpose of Horror

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What is horror fiction (whether in print or on film) good for? My parents certainly took a dim view of my fervent interest in the genre, beg...
Thursday, October 27, 2022

Is Time Travel Impossible?

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A character in C. S. Lewis's posthumously published novel fragment THE DARK TOWER asserts it is. (Granted, one faction within Lewis scho...
Thursday, May 26, 2022

Age Ranges for Fiction

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Editor Laura Simeon writes about determining whether a children's or YA book is "appropriate" or "inappropriate" for...
Thursday, May 12, 2022

Writing to the Future

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Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column, on writing nonfiction pieces that will still be relevant by the time they're published: Six W...
Thursday, February 24, 2022

Verbicide

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The final chapter of C. S. Lewis's STUDIES IN WORDS shifts from the narrowly focused topics of the rest of the book (each chapter delvin...
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Thursday, October 28, 2021

Survival Through Storytelling

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Recently I came across an ad for a book subtitled something like, "How to survive hard times by telling stories." I can't find...
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Thursday, July 08, 2021

Educating the Passions

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Over the July 4th weekend, columnist David Brooks wrote about the importance of storytelling: America Has a Great Story to Tell Skipping...
Thursday, December 24, 2020

Xmas Musings

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I've just read a recent book about Dorothy Sayers, SUBVERSIVE, by Crystal Downing. One theme to which the author frequently alludes is t...
Thursday, December 17, 2020

Good Guys and Bad Guys

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Kameron Hurley's latest LOCUS essay discusses empathy versus selfishness and why being the "bad guy" is actually taking the ea...
Thursday, March 19, 2020

Risk Assessment and Fear

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So schools, bars, restaurants, theaters, concert venues, casinos, etc. in Maryland have been ordered to close, and gatherings of more than f...
Thursday, February 20, 2020

Social Media in the Raging 20s

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In her latest LOCUS post, Kameron Hurley writes about tension and anxiety in the era of instantaneous communication and miscommunication: ...