Storytelling

On Franchise Loyalty, and Storytelling

Jonah Keri | Posted 10.27.2009 | Entertainment


Jonah Keri

A friendly hello to new readers at HuffingtonPost.com. Thanks for riding along. Visit JonahKeri.com for more good stuff on sports, politics and pop cu...

Storytelling Lessons From the Boy in the Balloon

Celeste Ng | Posted 10.21.2009 | Books


Celeste Ng

I'm not sure what life-lessons we're supposed to learn from this whole crazy mess, but the episode of the boy in the balloon tells us a lot about what we want in stories, and how to tell a good one.

Web of Change '09

Kety Esquivel | Posted 10.07.2009 | Technology


Kety Esquivel

Some of the questions that we explored at the Web of Change conference were: What defines the culture of New Media/Web 2.0? How has it started to define the culture of the 'real' world?

Mike Birbiglia Talks Red Carpets, His Awkwardness, And Dust-Bustering In His Sleep

Rip Empson | Posted 09.25.2009 | Home


Rip Empson

Whenever people say, 'wait, how come you're not funny?' Or something like that, I'm always like, 'if I said to you casually the stuff that I say on stage, it would get really uncomfortable.'

What Does Your Life Teach?

Gangaji | Posted 09.18.2009 | Living


Gangaji

You discover your story by noticing what you are telling yourself, over and over. Notice what you tell yourself about your past, your present, and your future.

Red the Book: He Called His Penis John Wayne. He Lied.

Amy Goldwasser | Posted 06.20.2009 | Entertainment


Amy Goldwasser

So I loved a storyteller. Don't we all? Is there anything more seductive, really?

My Mind Is Like My Mother

Carter Phipps | Posted 06.18.2009 | Living


Carter Phipps

When you do nothing for days you begin to see through the spell that the mind casts over the self and can recognize that so much of what goes on in our mental world is truly meaningless.

Will Nepal's Himalayan Yetis Be Ever Found?

Subhash Ghimire | Posted 04.23.2009 | World


Subhash Ghimire

Whether they be Abominable Snowmen to the westerners or a thrilling mystery to the cryptozoologists, Yetis always remind me of the beautiful stories that my grandfather told me.

Slumdog Millionaire's Danny Boyle on Storytelling

Gotham Chopra | Posted 02.12.2009 | Entertainment


Gotham Chopra

If there is one thing we might learn from great filmmaking, as with Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, it is that through our stories we have the ability to inspire, lead, and transform.

Centenarian Newspaper Columnist Leaves Us Many Storytelling Lessons

Sam Ford | Posted 01.08.2009 | Media


Sam Ford

John C. Morris was less than a month shy of his 109th birthday when he passed away in late October, but his passion for storytelling is something we can all learn from.

What Happened in Mumbai is Very Personal

Mallika Chopra | Posted 01.04.2009 | World


Mallika Chopra

My hope is that as a global community we can address the deeper issues that have fostered terrorism in the first place.

The Summer Squawk About Memoir

Lisa Dale Norton | Posted 08.06.2008 | Living


Lisa Dale Norton

Memoir provides a means for anyone writing to become the hero of his or her own life. That's why we write memoir and that's why we read it.

Story is Everything

Lisa Dale Norton | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics


Lisa Dale Norton

Hillary Clinton is shifting the paradigm and the narrative. Because the story is everything in the culture of politics, these are important shifts to ...

Marketing the Story

Lisa Dale Norton | Posted 05.28.2008 | Media


Lisa Dale Norton

No one needs to tune in to "Recount" to find out who won the 2000 Presidential election, but the entire story, told seven years ago, was all brought back instantly with one insert and a dozen chads falling out of the newspaper.