The Story is True
The Art and Meaning of Telling Stories

Explores the ways we use the stories that become a central part of our public and private lives. This title examines how stories narrate and bring meaning to our lives by describing and explaining how stories are made and used.

Making and experiencing stories, remembering and retelling them is something we all do. But how do stories work? What is it about telling and listening to stories that unites us? And, more importantly, how do we change them - and how do they change us? In "The Story Is True", author, filmmaker and photographer Bruce Jackson explores the ways we use the stories that become a central part of our public and private lives. He examines, as no one before has, how stories narrate and bring meaning to our lives by describing and explaining how stories are made and used.

1. Telling Stories
2. The Fate of Stories
3. Wallace Stevens's Jar
4. The True Story of Why Stephen Spender Quit the Spanish Civil War
5. The Stories People Tell
6. Acting in the Passive, or, Somebody Got Killed But Nobody Killed
Anybody
7. Stories That Don't Make Sense
8. The Real O. J. Story
9. Bob Dylan and the Legend of 1965
10. Silver Bullets
11. Storytellers' Storytellers
12. The Deceptive Anarchy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
13. Words to Kill By
14. The Storyteller I Looked for Every Time I Looked for Storytellers
15. Farinata's Silence