A new episode of the PN Podcast is live! In this episode, Jim Phelan and Christopher González discuss Junot Díaz's "The Books of Losing You." Listen here or on Apple Podcasts: podcast.osu.edu/projectnarrati…

Chris gets into Diaz's treatment of masculinity, his handling of "the breadcrumbs of memory" and more in this story that both stands on its own and connects with our stories about the Yunior, the narrator of Diaz's brilliant Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.

@projectnarrative welcomes Dr. Christopher González in 311 Denney Hall and over Zoom on October 30, 3:30 to 5 p.m., for a lecture on the narrative friction in Cormac McCarthy's Borderlands. For more information: bit.ly/3NoOcph

A new episode of the PN Podcast is up! In this episode, Jim Phelan and Suzanne Keen discuss John Cheever's "The Death of Justina." Listen here or on Apple Podcasts: podcast.osu.edu/projectnarrati…

One of Cheever’s best. Come for Suzanne Keen’s reading of the story, stay for our debate about how to read its ending.

A new episode of the PN Podcast is live! In this episode, Jim Phelan and Aaron Oforlea discuss James Baldwin’s “Going to Meet the Man.” Listen here or on Apple Podcasts: podcast.osu.edu/projectnarrati…

A little longer than usual but, as Aaron shows, Baldwin deserves it!

A new episode of the PN Podcast is up! In this episode, Jim Phelan and Amy J. Elias discuss Lemony Snicket's "The Lump of Coal." Listen here or on Apple Podcasts: podcast.osu.edu/projectnarrati…

A hilarious tale for the season! Great choice by Amy J. Elias. Our discussion also demonstrates how narratologists can’t keep themselves from looking beneath the textual surface—even as they try to read the text on its own terms.

A new episode of the PN Podcast is live! In this episode, Jim Phelan and Eyal Segal discuss Sholem Aleichem’s "Baranovich Station." Listen here or on Apple Podcasts: podcast.osu.edu/projectnarrati…

A new episode of the PN Podcast is up! In this episode, Jim Phelan and Robert Caserio discuss Elizabeth Bowen’s 1945 short story, “I Hear You Say So.” Listen here or on Apple Podcasts: podcast.osu.edu/projectnarrati…

A remarkable story set in London shortly after V-E day, featuring the return of a nightingale to a park, and the emotions and thoughts his song evokes in those who hear it. Robert brilliantly explores what Bowen is up to.

A new episode of the PN Podcast is live! In this episode, Jim Phelan and David Richter discuss Katherine Anne Porter's short story "Theft." Listen here or on Apple Podcasts: podcast.osu.edu/projectnarrati…

A new episode of the PN Podcast is up! In this episode, Jim Phelan and Kelly Marsh discuss Caryl Phillips’s short piece of life writing, “Growing Pains: A Life in 10 Chapters.” Listen here or on Apple Podcasts: podcast.osu.edu/projectnarrati…

Amazing piece by Phillips. A master class in the art of brevity. Kelly unpacks its power.

A new episode of the PN Podcast is live! In this episode, Jim Phelan and Kent Puckett discuss Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Listen here or on Apple Podcasts: podcast.osu.edu/projectnarrati…

A new episode of the PN Podcast is up! In this episode, Jim Phelan and Gary Weissman discuss Shalom Auslander’s short story, “Smite the Heathens, Charlie Brown.” Listen here or on Apple Podcasts: podcast.osu.edu/projectnarrati…

A tale for our polarized times. Gary discusses Auslander’s account of the conflicts between the Schulzians and Pumpkinites in the Peanuts storyworld after the death of Charles Schulz. Come for the metalepsis, stay for the humor and the invitations to allegorize.