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Storytelling

  1. A Funny Thing #24: Downtown Dinner Party with Sam DingmanJust how far will you go to get what you want? How high a price for fame, for love, will you deduct from your dignity to deposit on the […]
  2. A Funny Thing #23: To the Dogs with Mike GuildDo you like dogs? Before you answer, let Mike Guild tell you what he’s seen. While the rest of the world coos over and preens their puppies, […]
  3. A Funny Thing #22: Monkey Shines with Jim O’GradyOn this week’s A Funny Thing Jim O’Grady goes tete-a-tete with a clever little monkey. The prize? Romance! The complicating factor? Horror […]
  4. A Funny Thing #21: Code Brown with Andrea RosenPaper plates, salad bowls, the unwilling folds of a boyfriend’s testicles. What won’t our intrepid heroine squeeze her excreta into/onto? Not […]
  5. A Funny Thing #20: The Swing Set with Jenice MatiasThis week Jenice Matias, born of Spanish Harlem, raised on Father Knows Best, aspiring social climber, is led along the primrose path with […]
  6. A Funny Thing #19: If You Show Me Yours with Aileen ClarkAileen Clark is a woman of the world, but when the body images of the next generation are challenged by her own family will she step up and […]
  7. A Funny Thing #18: Step Five: UNKNOWN with Laura WillcoxScoliosis! Flat chests! The unknowable, occult mysteries of the nefariously inscrutable STEP NUMBER FIVE! What obstacles won’t the universe set […]
  8. A Funny Thing #17: I See You In a Cape with John FlynnJohn Flynn is off to see the wizard! But what will the wizard give him? A pretty hot pink cape, a believable sexual alibi, or perhaps the […]
  9. A Funny Thing #16: Know Thy Cops with Anthony AtamanuikThe winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. - Edward Gibbon This week, Anthony Atamanuik, our ablest navigator, […]
  10. Learn How to Tell a Story Pixar-StylePixar might make kids movies but they are impeccably crafted kids movies. Their films tend to be simple, not because they’re dumb or shallow, […]
  11. Watch Conan Narrate a Story About a Bear-Wrestling, Clock-Dancing, Ice […] I’d be in 21st grade if the school grade system continued on through adulthood. That is 19 more grades than the 2nd grade boy who wrote this […]
  12. ken burns
    Listen to Ken Burns’s Thoughts on StorytellingMore like “Ken Burns’s Thoughts on Basically Everything.”
  13. Telling Stories in New YorkOver at the Times, comedy critic Jason Zinoman takes a look this week at the flourishing storytelling scene in NYC, talking about stories and […]