Why Is This Good? episode 022: "Black-Eyed Women" by Viet Thanh Nguyen

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In this episode, we discuss "Black-Eyed Women" by Viet Thanh Nguyen. What can we learn from a story that features a ghost? What function can a ghost serve in a narrative? How can a strong central metaphor inform the shape and details of a story? How do our cultural conventions inform the metaphors of our stories, and can close examination help us discover more?

Read the story here: https://electricliterature.com/black-...


Why Is This Good? is a podcast from the Naples Writers' Workshop in which we read successful stories and ask "Why is this good?"

Through our discussion, we hope to discover useful things to say about how fiction works, the craft of writing, and literary art. We try to find lessons for our own writing by closely examining well-written stories, and we hope to share some of those lessons with our audience.


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