Sam Baker (@theothersambaker.bsky.social)

'When you grow up with oral stories... you cannot be a linear storyteller in the European tradition. To the best of my ability, I’d like my fiction to be a bridge builder: between written culture and oral culture.' Elif S, refusing to compromise her belief that readers can handle complexity.

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Once There Was, Once There Wasn't.... Many moons ago, I gave a TED talk called “The Politics of Fiction” (2010). https://open.substack.com/pub/elifshafak/p/once-there-was-once-there-wasnt?r=2ep7bq&utm_medium=ios