How Fiction Heals
The Awakenings Review
This essay is an exploration of the various therapeutic functions that literature serves for readers.
7 Ways Kurt Vonnegut Poisoned Readers’ Minds with Humanity
The Good Men Project
Kurt Vonnegut once said he wanted his novels to “catch people before they become generals and Senators and Presidents,” to “poison their minds with humanity. Encourage them to make a better world.” It was also published in Writer's Digest.
The Anatomy of Bibliotherapy
Hektoen International Journal
Similar to the process of psychotherapy, literature can help resolve conflicts, navigate traumatic experiences, integrate disowned aspects of ourselves, and perhaps even achieve inner wholeness or self-actualization. Fiction is indeed medicine for the soul.
The Banality of Reality Television
Thought Catalog
Fiction writers invent. Journalists report. Editors of reality TV shows do both, mostly the former, selecting without thinking, just following orders.
The Secret Life of a Con Man
Narratively
One of Narratively's top stories in 2014. It was also featured in The Week, Longread's Art of the Con, and syndicated with YourTango.