The Story Chris Harrigan
Chris Harrigan is the editor of The Story, and the former editor of Smith Journal. His freelance writing has appeared in frankie, Junkee, The Lifted Brow and The Age. He lives and works in Melbourne and on the internet.
- Latest post
- 11 Jan 2024
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- 12
5 WEIRD tricks the world’s MOST POPULAR YouTuber uses to GO INSANELY VIRAL How To
MrBeast makes bad content that people can’t stop watching. And—knowingly or not—he uses these five psychological strategies to do it.
11/01/24
The daily writing routines of Joan Didion, Kurt Vonnegut, Haruki Murakami and other famous writers How To Close Reads
“After 8:00 p.m. I tend to be very stupid and we won’t talk about this.”
12/05/23
The digital media experiment is over. What comes next? Close Reads
They were the beloved upstarts of the millennial era. Now publications like BuzzFeed and Vice are the ones being disrupted. Where did the dream of the 2010s go wrong?
12/05/23
What readers hate about books, according to 'The Washington Post' Art & Science
Dreams, italics, the word “lugubrious”—here’s everything America’s newspaper of record wants writers to stop writing.
21/03/23
Would your dream like fries with that? How marketers are coming for your dreams Art & Science
Advertisers want to insert commercials into your dreams. And according to this group of scientists, they're pretty close to having the tech to do it.
08/09/22
In this hundred-storey building, telling tales is much more than child’s play For Good
At a children’s centre in Melbourne’s west, educators are getting kids ready for the future by teaching storytelling as a core life skill.
08/09/22
Where writers write: photos of famous writers’ writing rooms Art & Science
Warning: may cause decor envy.
30/06/22
Listen to this 238-hour playlist of every song Murakami has ever written about Art & Science
Three thousand songs. One very dedicated Spotify user.
01/05/22
12 steps for making “iconic” TV shows, according to noted storytelling genius Jeff Bezos Art & Science How To Close Reads
The bazillionaire once listed a dozen storytelling elements every Amazon TV show had to include. They say more about our obsession with rules than they do about making good TV.
18/04/22
Battle of the brands: how today’s politicians are sold as products on a shelf Art & Science Close Reads How To
If Labor versus Liberal sometimes feels like Campbell’s Soup verus Heinz, that’s no accident.
01/04/22
Four storytelling tips from Robert McKee How To
The screenwriting guru dispensed plenty of advice in a recent interview. Here are a few of our favourite kernels of wisdom.
13/12/21
Sixty-nine pages of writing advice from Werner Herzog, Flannery O’Connor and more or less every other artist who’s ever put pen to paper How To Art & Science
Here’s that inspiration you were looking for.
02/05/21
