Mar 13, 2023
Emma Dayton Petersen lives in NYC, and is working towards getting her Masters Degree in Speech Pathology. While studying, she works full time as a Client Success Manager for a life and career coaching company for creatives. She became interested in the field of speech and linguistics during her time as a theater student at CSU, Fullerton. Emma’s dream is to use performance and theater as a tool to help people with communicative disorders. Her love of language is what initially drew her to the short story, “Story of Your Life,” and we had a fascinating discussion about what language is, how we communicate, and if we’d want to know the future.
Host: Julie Strauss
Emma Dayton Petersen
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Discussed in this episode:
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang (this is a book of short stories; the one we discussed today, ‘Story of Your Life’, is the story that the movie ‘Arrival’ is based on.
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
Arrival movie – this movie is also one of my all-time favorites!
The Best Short Stories 2022, The O. Henry Prize Winners, Edited by Valeria Luiselli
The Strand Bookstore
Modern Love: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption edited by Daniel Jones
From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout
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