October 2017
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Episode 284: Horror Movie Poetry Night IV
Episode 284 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. This week is a live show: Horror Movie Poetry Night IV. We enter the dark rubicons of Saw, Annabel, Child’s Play, The Lady in White, Phantasm, Return of the Living Dead, Halloween III: Season of the Witch, The Omen,… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #201: The Wicker Man
The Curator of Schlock #201 by Jeff Shuster The Wicker Man (I thought Christopher Lee was in this one.) Blog 201. Only 99 more to go before I get to 300. Only 700 more after that until I get to 1,000. I will be the world authority on schlock if I have to lie, cheat,… Continue reading
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Pensive Prowler #12: Walking in the Rain
Pensive Prowler #12 by DMETRI KAKMI Walking in the Rain In memory of George Young, the co-writer of ‘Walking in the Rain’; and for John King, who shares the passion. Melbourne, 1981. It was the height of the New Romantics movement. I was twenty years old and enamoured of the Blitz Kids in England’s club… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #200: The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake
The Curator of Schlock #200 by Jeff Shuster The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake How come he gets four skulls and I only get one? Whoah! 200 blogs. What a long, strange trip it’s been. I remember when John King first approached me on writing this weekly column. We had arranged a deal. If I… Continue reading
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Episode 282: Loose Lips Live Show!
Episode 282 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I share a recording of Loose Lips, the monthly current events literary thing hosted by the inestimable Tod Caviness, with special guests Erik Deckers, Whitney Hamrick, Joe Snyder, Mary McGinn,… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #199: Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
The Curator of Schlock #199 by Jeff Shuster Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter Let’s just get this over with. Sigh. It’s Friday the 13th so I have to cover another Friday the 13th movie. I guess it’s a horror movie so it fits in with this month’s theme. This one is 1984’s Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter… Continue reading
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Shakespearing #48: As You Like It at CSC
Shakespearing #48 by David Foley Wit and Fresh Sorrow: As You Like It at CSC When non-traditional casting is not the same as color-blind casting, things can get interesting. (I realize non-traditional casting is a bit of a misnomer since by now it’s quite traditional.) In John Doyle’s new production of As You Like It… Continue reading
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Episode 281: A Craft Discussion of Colum McCann’s Letters to a Young Writer with Vanessa Blakeslee!
Episode 281 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I talk with Vanessa Blakeslee about Colum McCann’s Letters to a Young Writer. Books Discussed NOTES Colum McCann hosts a lovely Bloomsday reading every year at Ulysses Folk House in downtown Manhattan. Check out… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #198: One Dark Night
The Curator of Schlock #198 by Jeff Shuster One Dark Night One dark night all by yourself in a mausoleum with a psychic vampire! It’s that time of year again! Time for your Curator of Schlock to transform into the Curator of Shock! It’s a full month of super scary movies! So get ready boys… Continue reading
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