Stories All the Way Down by G. M. Baker

Stories All the Way Down by G. M. Baker

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The Rise of Worldbuilding and the Decline of Literature
Why Story Seems to be Increasingly Taking a Back Seat
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Why Christian Fiction Always Seems Forced
Trying to make it seem natural is what makes it seem forced
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No, You Can't Learn History From Historical Fiction
I stumbled into an interesting debate on the Historical Novel Society Facebook group the other day.
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The Rise of Genre and the Fall of Story
Why do so many readers today read one genre exclusively?
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Fairytales are Not Fantasy
The matter of fairytales is the experience of living one’s life under the eye of heaven.
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Serious Popular Fiction
Notes towards a revival
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The Grisly Ghosts of Gruesome Time – Chapter 2
The Great Substack Story Challenge
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Sinners, Saints, and Monsters
There are three kinds of characters: saints, sinners, and monsters.
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The Wistful and the Good, Chapter 1
The Ship
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Classic vs. Modern Fiction, part 2
A conversation with Joseph Harris
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We Are At War With Metaphor
I stumbled upon this piece of silliness on LinkedIn, the home of much earnest Internet silliness.
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Classic vs. Modern Fiction, part 4
A conversation with Joseph Harris
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