December 2017
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #68: Hamlet (1948)
68. Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet (1948) I first saw Olivier’s Hamlet sometime in 1988 or 1989 in my English class as a senior in high school. The film was Shakespearean kryptonite for teenagers: a shaky black and white print of a study of melancholia expressed with exaggerated erudition. The very notion that I should flatter such work with… Continue reading
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Episode 294: Ben Blum!
Episode 294 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 catch up with Ben Blum, who was my colleague in a Jonathan Lethem workshop circa 2009, and talk about finding room for earnestness in a postmodern outlook, finding room… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #209: Three O’Clock High
The Curator of Schlock #209 by Jeff Shuster Three O’clock High No touchy! No touch! Happy New Year from all of us here at The Museum of Schlock: I, you’re humble curator, John King, the leader of Drunken Odyssey, and Henry Silva, manager of The Museum of Schlock’s new casino, Schlocker’s Wild, set to open in May… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #57: Bloodroot
Buzzed Books #57 by Amy Watkins Annemarie Ní Churreáin’s Bloodroot As I pretty much devoured Annemarie Ní Churreáin’s Bloodroot, I felt a little embarrassed because American readers (like me) tend to romanticize Ireland. A small, foolish part of me expects both magic and grit from Irish writers. I can only rationalize my silliness by pointing… Continue reading
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Episode 293: A Star Wars Roundtable (Happy Life Day!)
Episode 293 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, Tod Caviness, Julian Chambliss, Dianne Turgeon Richardson, and Jared Silvia join me in a roundtable discussion of the Star Wars Christmas Special of 1978 and maybe got a few other topics in there… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #208: I Come in Peace
The Curator of Schlock #208 by Jeff Shuster I Come In Peace And you go away in pieces! Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night, especially if the “good night” is being uttered by an angry Dolph Lundgren as he spin kicks your face. That’s right. It’s time to cover my favorite… Continue reading
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Pensive Prowler #14: Nobody from Nowhere
Pensive Prowler #14 by Dmetri Kakmi Nobody from Nowhere I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you Nobody, too? Then there’s a pair of us — don’t tell! They’d banish us, you know. How dreary to be Somebody! How public, like a Frog To tell one’s name the livelong June To an admiring Bog!… Continue reading
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Episode 292: On the Road’s 60th Anniversary Show!
Episode 292 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, we return to September 5th, 2017, the 60th anniversary of the publication of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. This celebration included Tod Caviness, Janna Benge, Bob Kealing, Erik Deckers, Suleika Jaouad, Karen Price, Holly… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #207: 2017 in Review Part 3D
The Curator of Schlock #207 by Jeff Shuster 2017 in Review Part 3D I didn’t actually see any movies in 3D. Fail. August Wind River Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen star in a non-Avengers movie. I guess you would surmise that they’re playing different characters since this is a non-Marvel related movie and you’d be… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #56: All I Want to Do is Live
Buzzed Books #56 by Justin T. Brozanski Trace Ramsey’s All I Want to Do is Live, a collection of creative nonfiction and poetry, is an unmistakably great book. Ramsey’s writing is brave against the noise of daily life as he struggles against his “desire to not live,” and seeks strength in the people who love him: his… Continue reading
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