Episode notes
“We narrate the story of our lives to ourselves. We narrate it in linear fashion. And I know many writers have played with time in all sorts of amazing ways, but we're storytellers. This is what we do. And if you give the brain a story, a prepackaged story, you're giving a cheesecake. That's what it wants. That's why it loves stories. That's why our society is just built on stories. Politics is nothing but stories. Everything you do in the evenings – we sit down, we're watching Netflix – just stories. We consume them all the time. We are just machines for belief.”
Paul Lynch is the author of five novels. His most recent novel, Prophet Song, won the 2023 Booker Prize and the Dayton Literary Peac ...
Keywords
Paul Lynch, Prophet Song, Creative Process, dystopia, totalitarianism, Ireland, Irish literature, Mia Funk, literary heritage, storytelling, narrative, cosmic fiction, film criticism, metaphysical, spiritual, human condition, writing process, intuiti