Tolkien on Fairy-Stories
This, from the epilogue of J.R.R. Tolkien’s essay “On Fairy Stories,” was inscrutable to me when I first read it in junior high.
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Story’s Dominance of Life
Jonathan Gottschall’s 2012 book The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make us Human (Mariner Books) begins with the line from Elie Wiesel’s The Gates of the
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