The film tackles its big subject through small stories.
But that complicated the puzzle: 32 small stories all had to fit together.
Yet the best the film can offer for an antidote is small stories.
The Journal has published three small stories, all deep inside the front section.
The point of the show, Mr. Prady said, is to tell small stories.
But Shakespeare does; his soliloquies are, in a sense, small stories, arias, secret confessions.
Sometimes the small stories, the most apparently inconsequential, are the best.
"I've been writing for many years, but just small stories or fragments of things that could become stories," he said.
He moves adroitly from the particular to the general, humbly revealing the greatness in each one of his small stories.
Like his most recent book, "Drama City," this novel weaves dozens of small stories into one big, overarching one.
"Every day I find something new, often from small stories of people coming to see the exhibition," he said.
