An "insightful consideration of all things story."
"Library Journal" "A lively pop-science overview of the reasons why
we tell stories and why storytelling will endure..[Gottschall's]
snapshots of the worlds of psychology, sleep research and virtual
reality are larded with sharp anecdotes and jargon-free summaries
of current research... 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. Very few of us pause to wonder why. 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. 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. Wilson, University Research Professor and Honorary
Curator in Entomology, Harvard University ""The Storytelling
Animal" is a delight to read. It's boundlessly interesting, filled
with great observations and clever insights about television,
books, movies, videogames, dreams, children, madness, evolution,
morality, love, and more. 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. 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. Haas Professor in the Humanities, Stanford
University "
"A lively pop-science overview of the reasons why we tell stories
and why storytelling will endure..[Gottschall's] snapshots of the
worlds of psychology, sleep research and virtual reality are larded
with sharp anecdotes and jargon-free summaries of current
research... 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. Very few of us pause to wonder why. 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. 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. Wilson, University Research Professor and Honorary
Curator in Entomology, Harvard University "Stories are everywhere.
Stories make us buy; they make us cry; they help us pass the time,
even when we're asleep. In this enthralling book, Jonathan
Gottschall traces the enduring power of stories back to the evolved
habits of mind. He reveals the ways in which we are trapped, for
better or worse, in a world of narrative. If you are in the
storytelling business -- and aren't we all? -- you must read this
book." --Jonah Lehrer ""The Storytelling Animal" is a delight to
read. It's boundlessly interesting, filled with great observations
and clever insights about　television, books, movies, videog
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