Preview: TC Boyle tells how stories help us cope with a "preposterous universe"

<p>T. Coraghessan Boyle -- the author of 28 remarkable and completely distinctive books of fiction -- has a powerful perspective on the need for <a href='https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/stories'>#stories</a>. In this excerpt from our forthcoming interview with Boyle, he tells how stories have helped him come to terms with life's absurdity -- and turn it into a lifelong dialogue with the process of <a href='https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/storytelling'>#storytelling</a>. <a href='https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/tcboyle'>#tcboyle</a> <a href='https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/tcoraghessanboyle'>#tcoraghessanboyle</a> <a href='https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/shortstories'>#shortstories</a> <a href='https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/novels'>#novels</a> <a href='https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/absurdism'>#absurdism</a> <a href='https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/existentialism'>#existentialism</a> <a href='https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/modernfiction'>#modernfiction</a> <a href='https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/metafiction'>#metafiction</a> <a href='https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/creativewriting'>#creativewriting</a> <a href='https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/writingmentors'>#writingmentors</a> <a href='https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/wellville'>#wellville</a> <a href='https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/franklloydwright'>#franklloydwright</a> <a href='https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/environmentalism'>#environmentalism</a> <a href='https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/cannabis'>#cannabis</a> @usc @tcboyle</p>