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In this week’s episode, Angie and Elizabeth discuss the question, can fiction save your life? Elizabeth rapidly fires off a few examples of fiction that served as sign posts for her as she grew up. They once again discuss whether or not we are wired for story, and Angie muses about what purpose story serves. Representation? Teaching us how to live? Saving a life? Perhaps not. Changing lives however… perhaps.
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Later The Same Day by Grace Paley
Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson
Oz Series by Frank Baum
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes and Jeanette Winterson
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
Wired for Story by Lisa Cron
Keep Going by Austin Kleon
Story Makers is a podcast that features in-depth conversations with accomplished writers, filmmakers and industry experts about story craft, technique, habit and survival–everything you need to know to stay inspired, connect to your creativity, find others’ wonderful stories and your own success.
The hosts:
Elizabeth Stark is a published, agented novelist and distributed filmmaker who teaches and mentors writers at BookWritingWorld.com.
Angie Powers is a distributed filmmaker and published short story writer with an MFA in creative writing and a certificate in screenwriting from UCLA who teaches story structure at BookWritingWorld.com.
Hi! I’m editing photos and listening to your podcast today. Thanks for keeping me company! I love this topic. I have absolutely had fiction not only change my life, but absolutely SAVE my life. When I moved to New England, “Enchanted April” by Elisabeth von Arnim totally saved me, as did Alice Munro’s short story collection “Loveship,Hateship, Courtship.” So did the recent novel “Less” by Andrew Sean Greer. Alice Walker and Mary Oliver have pulled me back from utter devastation. Also Steinbeck’s “The Winter of our Discontent” and Spalding Grey’s “Impossible Vacation.” The list goes on and on actually. There is also a huge non fiction list as well – recently Victor Fraenkl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning” brought me back to the living again, but so did “Breakfast with Buddha.” Thanks for the inspiring conversation. I’ll be tuning in during these editing marathons for sure!