“Many readers will recognize Kat’s work from NPR’s Code Switch, where she covered topics ranging from the history of the term ‘gaslight’ to the ways in which the model minority myth sustains racial ...

A friend of a friend told me . . . . Traditional stories are passed down orally, told as truth or told as fiction. Traditional narrative forms include folktales, myths, epics, legends, parables, and ...

Set in Western Iowa at the end of World War I, Michelle Hoover's second novel, 'Bottomland,' is the story of one farming family struggling to come to grips with a horrible fate. When two of their ...

In Meander, Spiral, Explode, Jane Alison tears down the traditional storytelling structure of the arc and boldly ventures out in search of other narrative forms and patterns. Among her discoveries: ...