I think that ending a story may be even harder than beginning it. People do expect some kind of redemptive quality of the enclosure, yes. But there's a mystery at the heart of it that doesn't make me hold together so well. And e and, and with game of trinds, i don't know that that was really a, that wu a, surprised me that it was not more successful. I mean, this is a series that violated all the rules, starting with the fact that hurmane characters were killed off in the first episodes. So, of course, it's not going to have a redemptive ending.
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.