Truth and Fiction
Truth and Fiction
Tim Vander Meulen
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.
Unraveling Dostoevsky
Finding a Common Thread Among the Author's Life and Writing
Dec 27, 2023
15 min
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.
Nov 11, 2023
28 min
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?
Nov 7, 2023
28 min
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.
Apr 5, 2023
12 min
Imaginary
A short story about a girl and her imaginary friend.
Jul 21, 2022
21 min
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.
Aug 11, 2021
23 min
Man on the High Tower
A short story by Tim Vander Meulen, published on truthandfiction.org
Aug 5, 2021
18 min