Truth and Fiction

Short stories, poems, and essays from Tim Vander Meulen. Listen as the writer reads his work from truthandfiction.org. Thank you to Peter Vander Meulen of To the End of the Age (https://open.spotify.com/artist/3Nk0eePwJ8c6YdoxvyqhFx) for the title track and all background music.

Journal of the Mortuus

It is the year 1257. Philip Cameron writes of his exploits on a nautical journey to a remote island, and the group that is hunting him, in a mysterious journal left him by his uncle.

07-30
16:57

Translation, There in the Grass She Gently Lay, and One

3 more poems from the archives.

02-04
03:54

Unraveling Dostoevsky

Finding a Common Thread Among the Author's Life and Writing

12-27
15:31

An Introduction to Art and Christianity

What might theology have to do with art? In this episode, Tim Vander Meulen takes a survey through history of the artistic blights of popular culture and the great Christian men who stood in opposition.

11-11
28:05

Tragedy and the Limits of Man in Four Literary Masterpieces

Don Quixote, Faust, The Red and the Black, One Hundred Years of Solitude - Each of these presents characters who strive after worldly success, progress, or greatness in some way, and each come ultimately to failure. Why is that?

11-07
28:38

Of the Young Lasgaleth and His Antics (Sample)

A small portion of a larger work of fantasy, this sample presents a portrait of one of its main characters as a young elfling growing up in the city of Dralindor.

04-05
12:39

Imaginary

A short story about a girl and her imaginary friend.

07-21
21:59

A Theory of the Novel in View of Scientific Reductionism

Is the literary novel merely the sum of its individual parts? Tim Vander Meulen compares the novel to a movement in scientific analysis called reductionism.

08-11
23:40

Man on the High Tower

A short story by Tim Vander Meulen, published on truthandfiction.org

08-05
18:49

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