This week’s blog is Isabella Piper’s review of “Bad Feminist”, a collection of essays by Roxane Gay. Isabella Piper is a young poet, blogger and writer. You can find her persistently writing for others and on her own website, isabellapiper.com. She is pursuing a creative writing degree in her near future–in hopes of expanding and perfecting […]
Category: Political
Storytelling in the Age of the Gilded Presidency
“A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When a society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates.” Like many fledgling screenwriters, I internalized Robert McKee’s excellent book, “Story”, which cuts through the mystique of cinematic storytelling with the cold precision of a scalpel. I learned a lot and, more importantly, I thought a lot […]