"The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives. We live in stories the way fish live in water, breathing them in and out, buoyed...

"Stories can haunt and unsettle us, and the most skilled storytellers can do this with remarkable lexical economy. The imaginative...

"Our brain like the amoeba has one main goal - survival. We can go weeks without food and days without water, but only about 35 seconds...