A monthly letter from Gotham’s dean of faculty, Kelly Caldwell (usually writing advice)
Awhile back, I started scrounging around for new ways to put together my summer reading lists. I love the ones that are out there already, the beach reads and must-reads and exciting reads. But have you ever noticed how they all tend to recommend the same small pool of books? I wanted a list that would lead me to titles I might not have found otherwise. Continue reading “Summer Reading”
Lately, as many of you know, Gotham’s Be a Hero contest has me obsessing about Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey, the core narrative at the heart of our favorite myths and stories. Continue reading “The Belly of the Whale”
Among the many gifts bequeathed to us by the novelist Kurt Vonnegut, one of my favorites is The Shapes of Stories, where he visualized different kinds of stories by drawing them on a line graph. Continue reading “Story Shapes”