In your first book, the art of immersion, both of them atter water, have a water motive. Is is that deliberate or coincidence? That's entirely coincidence. In fact, i'm not at i even quite recognized it until tjust now. Ok, let's let's start off talking about internet story telling. As your first book was really about how the internet opened up a whole new form of narrative a for people. How much has changed since that first book in his view? Oh, it's been ten years, which is like a century of internet time.
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.