Sam Lipsyte

Literary Term Larcency: the Co-opting of Narrative

In “The Cognitive and Anthropological Origins of Narrative,” Richard van Oort argues for the “coeval origin” of narrative and language. If that’s true, maybe I have no business complaining about this, but I’m going to anyway. As a writer, we have certain literary devices and terms which we call our own. They are the toolsContinue reading “Literary Term Larcency: the Co-opting of Narrative”