The scrupulous synthesis of art and science here is masterful the real-world stakes high the rewards for the reader numerous, exhilarating, mind-expanding." - Terry Castle, Walter A. And it's beautifully written-fittingly enough, Gottschall is himself a skilled storyteller." - Paul Bloom, Professor of Psychology at Yale and author of How Pleasure Works "Like the magnificent storytellers past and present who furnish him here with examples and inspiration, Jonathan Gottschall takes a timely and fascinating but possibly forbidding subject - the new brain science and what it can tell us about the human story-making impulse - and makes of it an extraordinary and absorbing intellectual narrative. It's boundlessly interesting, filled with great observations and clever insights about television, books, movies, videogames, dreams, children, madness, evolution, morality, love, and more. Wilson, University Research Professor and Honorary Curator in Entomology, Harvard University " The Storytelling Animal is a delight to read. It grips the reader with both stories and stories about the telling of stories, then pulls it all together to explain why storytelling is a fundamental human instinct." - Edward O. Gottschall lays bare this quirk of our species with deft touches, and he finds that our love of stories is its own story, and one of the grandest tales out there-the story of what it means to be human." - Sam Kean, author of The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements "Story is not the icing, it’s the cake! Gottschall eloquently tells you ‘how come’ in his well researched new book." - Peter Guber, CEO, Mandalay Entertainment and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Tell To Win "This is a quite wonderful book. Gottschall brings a light tough to knotty psychological matters, and he’s a fine storyteller himself." - Kirkus Reviews "They say we spend multiple hours immersed in stories every day. snapshots of the worlds of psychology, sleep research and virtual reality are larded with sharp anecdotes and jargon-free summaries of current research. " - Library Journal "A lively pop-science overview of the reasons why we tell stories and why storytelling will endure. draws from disparate corners of history and science to celebrate our compulsion to storify everything around us.”-The New York TimesĪn " insightful consideration of all things story. A Editor's Choice A Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Finalist “A jaunty, insightful new book. The Storytelling Animal finally reveals how stories shape us. Gottschall tells us what it means to be a storytelling animal and explains how stories can change the world for the better. Storytelling has evolved, like other behaviors, to ensure our survival. Gottschall argues that stories help us navigate life’s complex social problems - just as flight simulators prepare pilots for difficult situations.
Even sporting events and criminal trials unfold as narratives.
Humans live in landscapes of make-believe. Drawing on neuroscience and evolutionary biology, The Storytelling Animal explores what stories reveal about human nature, how we process information, and think about the world. In this delightful and original book, Jonathan Gottschall offers the first unified theory of storytelling.
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