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April 6, 2012 04:52 am PDT

Why storytellers lie

In the wake of Mike Daisey's exposure as a fabulist, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human arrives at the perfect moment. The Atlantic's Maura Kelly examines Jonathan Gottschall's argument that storytelling's deceptions emerge from deeply human needs: When we tell stories about ourselves, they also serve another important (arguably higher) function: They help [...]


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