Vahid Friedrich, advisor to financial advisors, is talking to us about storytelling—in sci-fi, video games, religion, and more!
Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay.
Episode artwork: Cover of Science Fiction Quarterly, Nov. 1952 [cropped]. Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon—and show your support at Liberapay!
Archive of Our Own
Richard Bachman
James Baldwin / Nikki Giovanni
Soul! Interview
Iain (M.) Banks
John Banville
Bashō
The Beatles
Benjamin Black
Yosa Buson
Johnny Cash
"Hurt"
Noam Chomsky
Charles Dickens
Dungeons & Dragons
Percival Everett
James
Mark Ford
W. Mark Ford
Natalie Goldberg
Three Simple Lines
Natalie Goldberg
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Frank Herbert
Dune
William J. Higginson
The Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku
Isekai: "A Beginner's Guide to Isekai"
(Introductory article on the genre by Amanda Pagan)
Kobayashi Issa
John Landis
An American Werewolf in London
Larian Studios
Baldur's Gate 3
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Books of Earthsea
David Lynch
Dune
Vladimir Nabokov
Speak, Memory
Nine Inch Nails
"Hurt"
Larry Niven
"Flash Crowd"
nobody103
Mother of Learning
Terry Pratchett
Royal Road
Hiroaki Sato
On Haiku
Screen Actors Guild
Settlers of Catan
Peter Singer
Practical Ethics
Sleyca
Super Supportive
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
Mark Twain
Huckleberry Finn
Denis Villeneuve
Dune
David F. Walker / Mark Kwame Anderson
Big Jim and the White Boy
D. D. Webb
The Gods Are Bastards
William Carlos Williams
Paterson
Gene Wolfe
