The Story Patrick Pittman
Patrick Pittman is a Toronto-based writer and editor for print, radio and film. He was previously the editor of the magazines Dumbo Feather and The Alpine Review. His freelance writing has appeared in Smith Journal, The Saturday Paper, Monocle and The Calvert Journal.
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Kurt Vonnegut graphed the world’s most popular stories. Do his diagrams tell us something important about humanity? Art & Science Close Reads
The Slaughterhouse-Five author believed there were just eight different story 'shapes'—and that they might be of interest to anthropologists. The anthropologists thought otherwise. But why?