Manny Frishberg was born in the shadow of New York City but saw the error of his (parents’) ways and moved to the West Coast, 40-some years ago. He has held jobs shaping wood, sheet metal and words (not all at once).
Manny has been an independent book editor since 2010. He and his partner serve two cats in their home in Portland.
Sessions in which Manny Frishberg participates
Saturday 13 February, 2021
A recent text analysis by AI found a subtle pattern in stories collected from around the world and in hundreds of languages. This supports my observation that the structures of theater, traditional and modern, from Japanese Noh plays and Chinese operas to the Hollywood 3-Act screenplay, as well as Freitag's Pyramid, and the 7-sentence fairy tale (the basis for all Pixar films) all describe the same basic pattern of rising and falling tension: the secret structure of all stories.