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Link Next Big Thing - Literary Scholars Turn to…
This layered process of figuring out what someone else is thinking — of mind reading — is both a common literary device and an essential survival skill. Why human beings…

April 6 2010, 12:04pm | Comments
Link The 'Basic' Plots in Literature
Q: I’ve heard there are only 7 (or 5, 20, 36…) basic plots (or themes) in all of literature. What are they? A: People often say that there are only…

March 9 2010, 4:35pm | Comments
Metafilter Innovative Book Designs Innovative Books: I am looking to compile a list of the most innovative uses of the book format. Books that break the mould in their layout and design,…

November 1 2009, 5:37am | Comments
Link What do Amnesia, Immortality, and Mind Control have…
What breaks your sense of presence in a story? The culture of video game playing has developed a tolerance for the common practices and limitations in designing and producing games.…

July 11 2009, 6:53am | Comments
Link Adam Curtis: It Felt Like a Kiss
It Felt Like a Kiss started life as an experimental film I made for the BBC last year. My aim was to try and find a more involving and emotional…

June 20 2009, 5:39am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily I discovered the ants

June 14 2009, 11:22pm | Comments
Link Readers build vivid mental simulations of narrative situations
A new brain-imaging study is shedding light on what it means to "get lost" in a good book — suggesting that readers create vivid mental simulations of the sounds, sights,…

January 29 2009, 7:04am | Comments

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