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Harrison BlackmanStorytelling and Design from the Edge
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Parable of the Sower
This is the twenty-seventh chapter in a long-simmering miniseries called “Narrative Architecture” about storytelling choices in fiction. There are many ways to tell a story, and in this series, I’ll examine the literary choices a particular...
'Taiwan Travelogue' and the politics of translation
In each installment of The Usonian Interviews, The Usonian spotlights a storyteller from a different corner of the globe. This week, The Usonian speaks with architectural historian Lin King about her English translation of Yáng Shuang-Zi’s...
'The Odyssey' toys with the Bronze Age's original sin
How Nolan updates the Homeric poem with ancient (and modern) relevance
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Watchmen
This is the twenty-sixth chapter in a long-simmering miniseries called “Narrative Architecture” about storytelling choices in fiction. There are many ways to tell a story, and in this series, I’ll examine the literary choices a particular a...
Usonia 250
The dip in the road at the entrance of Anza Borrego State Park in California, the location of the finale of One Battle After Another (2025). (© Harrison Blackman, 2026)
America celebrates its 250th anniversary of independence in a couple d...
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Writer/journalist/screenwriter. Cities, Mediterranean, suspense. Fulbright fellow, MFA at University of Nevada, Reno, Princeton grad. Follow my work on THE USONIAN.
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