A new documentary about life under the corona virus captures voices from around the country with stories of resilience, creativity, and resolve. Called “Navigating the Curve”, the film showcases fresh perspectives on the emerging crisis with intimate first-person accounts of life suddenly and unexpectedly transformed. The 44-minute production appears online. (URL HERE)
Read MoreTHE SURVIVAL INVENTION
How did those who came before manage to endure? We retell and retell and retell, the stories preserving information as much has they preserve motivation.
Read MoreUNCONSTRAINED BY FACTS
Without a desire to examine the surrounding world—without intense curiosity about how things might look or sound or be told to others—people don’t generally feel powerful urges to create.
Read MoreSAVING THE WORLD
Science is an endless process. It builds on itself. But just like life, science means nothing if the fruits of its efforts aren’t shared with others.
Read MoreEarly Morning at Mickey's Diner
“They can do all sorts of stuff with them computers. I heard on the radio that you can put all sorts of neat stuff together with these new computers they got now. They’re prob’ly just getting a bunch of them computers to keep the fire from, y’know, getting put out by the water. Oh, yeah, with all this new science and computer machines and stuff they can do lots of things like that -- easy.
Read MoreTHE STORY YOU JUST PASSED
Artists of all types spend their days telling stories of all types. When you consider that everybody has them, some more dramatic than others, perhaps, we begin to realize how important it is to simply pay attention whenever we can. When we do—when we notice and recognize the pointillistic aspects of a complex world told one story at a time, we gain an ever-so-slightly greater ability to refract and transform our own stories into creative enterprise that relate and resonate.
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Novelists and journalists both use the same tools. Pens, paper, computers, and digital audio recorders are really at the bottom of the list. Narrative tales, regardless of which camp tells them, require information to start, followed by synthesis, context, and perspective. From there, the potential for interesting results grow.
A REPORTER AND A NOVELIST WALK INTO A BAR…
That experimental space of narrative invention is simultaneously the great dividing line between fiction and journalism, as well as the bridge between the two camps. Where journalism trades in carefully considered observations, backed up by sources and evidence, fiction makes sense of how received information fits into a larger cultural context. Where journalism digs up hard-to-reach raw minerals, fiction polishes them into jewels.
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