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#593 Brian Boyd - On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction

The Dissenter

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Is the Quality of Art on the Decline?

The author says he's been too busy doing other things to read a lot of recent fiction. But some of the examples i knowar are are very fine. He believes that serious literary story telling is ramping up all the time as they build on techniques discovered by great innovators.

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