Showing posts with label Storytelling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Storytelling. Show all posts

Monday, 9 February 2009

Click Here To Listen: Blue Sky Dreams on This American Life

This is an exerpt from a powerful memoir that recounts the author's world (together with his family), growing up in middle-class suburbia, from Sputnik to the present, and writes of the great institutions--the government, the multinational corporations, the church, the suburban tract home neighborhood--in which his family put their faith, and how that faith was betrayed.

Ira Glass: 69 Dreamhouse, This American Life
http://www.powells.com/biblio?PID=28734&cgi=product&isbn=015600531X

Tuesday, 13 January 2009

Click Here To Listen: This American Life on Americans In Paris

An American in Paris - This episode relates lived experiences and stories about Americans living and settling in Paris, a city historically known for its open attitude towards them. Yet these narratives also reveal some idiosyncracies in the notion of Paris as a romantic and dreamy place.

Tuesday, 6 January 2009

We Tell Stories

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Penguin Publishing's site, We Tell Stories, makes use of various digital media (blogging, flash games, etc) to tell a selection of short stories. The first story, Charles Cumming's The 21 Steps, makes use of digital maps to literally trace out the movements of the protagonist and is an interesting method of storytelling.

Click Here to Listen: 'You Are Here' from This American Life Podcast

Jailbreak the 'Map'.... Another instalment of place 'stories' from This American Life.