2017
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #67: Tromeo and Juliet (1996)
67. Lloyd Kaufman’s Tromeo and Juliet (1996) Last week, the bourgeoisie wet dream that is Carlo Carlei’s Romeo and Juliet so dismayed me that I decided the time had come to try Tromeo and Juliet. From time to time, I review films that may seem tangential to Shakespearean theatre, such as Strange Brew and Gnomeo and Juliet and… Continue reading
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Episode 291: A Very French Christmas!
Episode 291 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 the new fiction anthology, A Very French Christmas, from New Vessel Press. NOTES Some context for the dubious Dutch tradition of Black Pete. David Sedaris discusses this in… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #206: 2017 in Review Part Deux
The Curator of Schlock #206 by Jeff Shuster 2017 in Review Part Deux More movies, more troubles. Your curator continues this week with more impressions of the films of 2017. This was a mistake. I really don’t know what to say about them. But maybe something will come to mind as I plug along. By… Continue reading
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Dispatches from the Funkstown Clarion Herald Tribune Mirror: International Version #4: Guns and Roses’s Next Move
Dispatches from the Funkstown Clarion Herald Tribune Mirror: International Version #4 by Simon Bluespire My distant cousin Clement Hooker, once a townsperson of Funkstown, Maryland, is currently stationed in a secret location in Finland doing genetic experiments. Once a proud portion of the fourth estate, The Funkstown Mirror has merged with several other newspapers during the last hundred thirteen years,… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #66: Romeo and Juliet (2013)
66. Carlo Carlei’s Romeo and Juliet (2013) Why does Carlo Carlei’s Romeo and Juliet make me cranky? I think part of the problem is that David Tattersall’s camera is a little too enamored with the posh art direction of Gianpaolo Rifino and Armando Savoia. These Renaissance mansions of Verona make our best museums look like hovels,… Continue reading
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Episode 290: Jacob Shores-Agüello
Episode 290 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. This week I talk to Jacob Shores-Agüello, the resident of the Kerouac House in summer of 2017. We talk about the roles that genres play in the process of mourning, the improvistory games that can… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #205: 2017 in Review
The Curator of Schlock #205 by Jeff Shuster 2017 in Review I’m finished. I just can’t anymore! Okay. Maybe that was an overstatement. It’s not a cry for help. Just a little burned out these days. I saw many movies this year, many in the actual movie theater. Was 2017 a good year for movies?… Continue reading
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Pensive Prowler #13: Flying High
Pensive Prowler #13 by Dmetri Kakmi Flying High I don’t want to brag, but … I recently flew to Rome and London business-class. It’s quite the experience. There’s nothing like it. The problem is I’m now elevated to a higher state and can’t possibly travel cattle-class again. It’s too too ghastly, I tell you, sitting… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #65: King of Texas (2002)
65. Ali Edel’s King of Texas [King Lear] (2002) Those fucking snobs who discuss Shakespeare’s plays pretend like he didn’t even write any westerns. I wonder why? Oh—right. So Patrick Stewart has performed King Lear on film once, but it was set in Texas, and didn’t use Shakespeare’s text, but was re-written into a nineteenth century Texas… Continue reading
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Episode 289: Laurie Stone!
Episode 289 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. This week I talk to the fiction writer Laurie Stone, and we talk about the need for more craft in experimental work, what New York means for writers, the tricks of memory and aging,… Continue reading
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