ENTHRALLING‘ (Jonah Lehrer, Author of  How We Decide and Imagine)

QUITE A WONDERFUL BOOK‘ (E. O. Wilson, Harvard)

FASCINATING AND RIVETING (Michael Gazzaniga, UC Santa Barbara)

A DELIGHT TO READ (Paul Bloom, Yale)

MASTERFUL (Terry Castle, Stanford)

 

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Humans live in landscapes of make-believe: we spin fantasies, we devour novels, films, and plays, and even our dreams unfold as narratives. Yet the world of story has long remained an undiscovered and unmapped country. It’s easy to say that humans are “wired” for story, but why