Show Notes: S03, E09 - Foreshadowing: The Guts of Storytelling
In this week's episode, we're trying to bring storytelling devices into our real lives, with the help of Frasier, Hamilton, Hemingway, The Sopranos, Cool Runnings, and much, much more.
Here's all the art we recommended.
(Art we only mentioned in passing, and never intended as a problem-solving recommendation, is in italics.)
Underlined items are this week's top picks from each of our presenters. If you're only going to try one of the pieces of art we mentioned, try these ones first.
Books
- The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
- Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan
- American Royals - Katherine McGee
- The Three Most Important Lessons You've Never Been Taught - Martin Lewis
- Your Money or Your Life - Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez
- The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine - Michael Lewis
- The Wolf of Wall Street - Jordan Belfort
- Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
Films / TV
- Cool Runnings
- Frasier
- Cheers
- The Simpsons
- Steptoe and Son
- The Crown
- Crazy Rich Asians
- Succession
- Game of Thrones
- The Greatest Showman
- The Sopranos
Music
- She Bangs - Ricky Martin
- Come Together - The Beatles
- Stand By Your Man - Tammy Wynette
- Definitely Maybe - Oasis
- One Step Closer - Linkin Park
- My Old Man's a Dustman - Lonnie Donegan
- Don't Dilly Dally on the Way - Fred W Leigh & Charles Collins
- Any Old Iron - Charles Collins
- Knees Up Mother Brown
- Ghost Town - The Specials
- A Message to You Rudy - The Specials
- Off the Wall - Michael Jackson
- Ironic - Alanis Morissette
A selection of the music mentioned in this episode can be found in the Agony Art Spotify playlist.
Other
Corrections
We are currently unaware of any errors made in this episode. That doesn't mean we didn't make any - just that they haven't been spotted yet.
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