I'm curious, i don't want to sound too a judgmental ot this, but is there something unusual or interesting about the fact that people want to go deeper? I understand. That you might want to find out how much this story was true. You could imagine different things that weren't they wern't true. Ll, they wouldn't be true. They the curse is fictional. Just that interesting thing that human beings, we want those. We have these imaginary friends. There are the characters in our novels, characters in our movies. A, we care about them. Nd, we just did a show that's aring this week. Ied n' talk about or
Once it was The Shadow radio show; now it's the podcast Serial. Is every old storytelling medium new again? Frank Rose, author of The Sea We Swim In, concedes that some things remain sacred--from the power of a great hook to the hope that great stories never end. But he also thinks the Internet has led to new kinds of stories, ones that are not just entertaining, but immersive, and whose worlds are more richly imaginative than ever--even as they leave increasingly little to our imagination.