3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American novelist and storyteller — founder of The Moth — author of The Juror and The Caveman's Valentine — who left a fiction career to create the world's most influential live storytelling organization.
General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party (1922–1953) — who industrialized the USSR at the cost of millions of lives (collectivization, Gulag, Terror), defeated Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front, and extended Soviet power to Eastern Europe — the most successful political survivor in modern history.
George Dawes Green's 2022 mystery novel set in Savannah, Georgia — his return to fiction after founding The Moth — exploring the city's history and social structure through a murder investigation.