In his 30th published volume The Way of Myth Stories Subtle Wisdom Dennis Patrick Slattery reaches back in Part I Mining the Myths Anew to some earlier essays on classic films and works of literature. He also includes extended meditations on the thought of mythologist Joseph Campbell on creativitys hungers on beliefs as mythic constructs and on the joys of painting. Many of the essays explore the act of reading and the importance of stories as they relate to ones personal myth.In Part II The Social Fabric of Stories Slattery includes a series of 19 short oped essays on a range of topics the classroom as sacred space uncertainty the fact of myth compassion moral injury peace the gifts of conversation gallbladder surgery the pandemic and the poetics of myth among others.