Harry Bingham, who blogs at Toasting Napoleon, has announced that he has a publishing deal to write a book with the provisional title of The Storytelling Ape. Here’s how he describes it:
The book will deal with why humans tell stories; what role narrative plays for us; and how these things ought to affect the way we go about reading fiction.
Bingham notes that he was excited when he first pitched the book, but is now “very, very excited.” He goes on:
There’s just so much to write about. Fields like evolutionary linguistics, evolutionary psychology, [and] neuroscience are just fizzing with ideas on these topics, in a way they just weren’t 15 years or so ago. What’s more, although there are popular books written for the lay reader on individual topics in these areas, no one has ever joined the dots the way I’m hoping to.