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Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Angus Fletcher I’ll out myself as a lifelong nerd by revealing that the original idea for Wonderworks came when I was about five years old and my dad was reading me …moreI’ll out myself as a lifelong nerd by revealing that the original idea for Wonderworks came when I was about five years old and my dad was reading me Watership Down as a bedtime story. I was absolutely enchanted, and I wanted to know: how could those inert little ink squiggles on the book’s printed page pop my mind with living color?

Ever since then, I’ve wondered: How do books do it? What’s the secret to the way they work? And my curiosity built as I went through middle school and high school and college, and discovered literary miracles like Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, and Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and Alison Bechdel's Fun Home. And all that time, I could find books that explained the cogs and gears of satellites and radios and refrigerators and airplanes and everything else. But I couldn’t find a book that explained how poems or novels or films did the remarkable things that they did to my head.

So I thought, wouldn’t it be wonderful to find that book someday?

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to learn how the wonder works?
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	Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature 4.04 avg rating — 728 ratings — published 2021 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Screenwriting 101: Mastering the Art of Story 4.14 avg rating — 222 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Primal Intelligence: You Are Smarter Than You Know 3.84 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 2025 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Evolving Hamlet: Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy and the Ethics of Natural Selection liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2007 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Our drones, our phones, our algorithms, our virtual realities, and our smart homes have all been built to shuttle around meals and data and other stuffs, turning space-time into an extension of our needs and wants.”
― Angus Fletcher, Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature

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“there are a number of judgments that we can suspend permanently, including most of our judgments about other people. Our brain is constantly making such judgments. It looks at strangers on the street—and judges them. It looks at celebrities in magazines—and judges them. It looks at family members and colleagues and friends in homes and offices and restaurants—and judges them. These judgments feel instantly good to our neurons; they deliver pleasant microdoses of emotional superiority. But in the long run, they make us anxious, incurious, and less happy, so we can improve our long-term mental well-being if we suspend them.”
― Angus Fletcher, Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature

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“For the longer we suspend our judgments, the more accurate our subsequent verdicts become. This valuable fact has been uncovered by researchers who’ve spent decades probing the mechanics of better decision-making, only to discover that the key is simply more time and more information. Which is to say: reserving our judgment until the last possible moment.”
― Angus Fletcher, Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature

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