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Fiction is More Real Than Non-Fiction

Jun 16, 2023

40:56

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

The Importance of Sound Effects in a Podcast

2min

How Fiction Helps Us Understand Ourself and the World Better

3min

Lord of the Rings

4min

The Importance of Classical Books

3min

Jane Eyre's Truth-Bouding Goodness

2min

The Power of Archetypes

5min

The Purpose of the Church

3min

The Rise and Fall of the Room and Empire

4min

10.

The Power of Fiction

2min

11.

The Awakening of Misprim

5min

12.

How to Be a Better Writer

2min

13.

The Pros and Cons of Being Off Instagram

2min

14.

The Pillars of the Earth by Kin Follot

4min

Stories (the good ones, anyway) tell us more than an entertaining tale—they tell us why the world is the way it is, as well as the way it should be. In this way, fiction is often more real than non-fiction. Everyone should read fiction, especially folks who want to know how the world works and how we're called to make it better. Seth & Tsh unpack why good stories do just that.

* Seth’s Newsletter & Website

* Tsh’s Newsletter & Website

* Pick up a round of drinks

* Our recommended reads

* The Observationalist, by Seth

* Pre-order Seth & Amber’s new book, The Deep Down Things

* Pre-order Tsh’s journal, First Light & Eventide

* The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway

* Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë

* Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr

* The Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett

* It Can’t Happen Here, by Lewis Sinclair