In response to the question, “Why does a man need to tell stories to others and himself?” Mario Vargas Llosa writes, “It is a way by which the mind uses fantasy to structure the chaos of the original experience. ” Life, as we know it, is not naturally narrative. People have for millennia crafted stories from Vargas Llosa’s “chaos” in an effort to understand its rhythms. From pictures of animals in Spain’s Altamira caves to the creation myths of the Tlingit people in the Pacific Northwest, from Homeric epics passed from bard to bard, to Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five, storytellers …