Storytelling
39 ABA Journal Storytelling articles.
Humor is the lubricant that enables us to slide through the obstacles life places in our way. That's why we say: "If I didn't laugh, I'd cry."
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Nov 1, 2015 2:10 AM CST
I am driving to the law school where I work, listening to Sirius radio. The Bridge plays music from the 1960s and '70s. Carly Simon sings "You're so vain. I…
Oct 1, 2015 7:50 AM CDT
Character is crucial in most popular storytelling practices. Most especially, it is at the core of the modern novel. The late literary critic and novelist John Gardner observed that at…
Aug 1, 2015 6:50 AM CDT
Last summer I attended an intensive, weeklong postgraduate writing workshop at Vermont College for Fine Arts given by the novelist and memoirist Andre Dubus III (
House of Sand and Fog…
Jun 1, 2015 6:00 AM CDT
Trial storytelling is often highly creative and innovative. It is filled with aesthetic danger and strategic risk-taking—as are all forms of narrative art. But there is far more at stake…
Feb 1, 2015 6:21 AM CST
Peter Brooks, the esteemed narrative theorist, tells an anecdote about a brilliant graduate student in his advanced narrative theory seminar at Yale.
Jan 1, 2015 2:30 AM CST
I've taught at five law schools for almost 30 years now. Here's one takeaway from the experience: Law schools tip the storytelling practitioner's factually complex, often indeterminate and ambiguous world…
Oct 1, 2014 7:00 AM CDT
Aug 1, 2014 8:10 AM CDT