2017
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Episode #268: Kathleen Rooney!
Episode 268 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s show, I talk to the poet and novelist Kathleen Rooney about the flaneur as geographic narrator of imaginative space, the aesthetic pleasures of walking, writing about New York City, the value of… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #187: First Blood
The Curator of Schlock #187 by Jeff Shuster First Blood They’re not hunting him. He’s hunting them! Sorry if I freaked out a bit last week. Maybe it’s my delicate sensibilities, but a movie where a ten-year-old boy gets shot and killed because of the decision of some old guys in a board room meeting… Continue reading
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Episode 267: A Discussion of Stanley Elkin’s The Magic Kingdom, with Orlando author Nathan Holic!
Episode 267 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s show, I talk to my friend Nathan Holic, who is an Orlando writer and editor of the 15 Views of Orlando anthology series. While in situ at The Contemporary Resort, we… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #186: Kidnap Syndicate
The Curator of Schlock #186 by Jeff Shuster Kidnap Syndicate And I thought last week’s movie was depressing. I am in a bad way this week. When you start bashing your head into the bathroom mirror and actually grin as the blood trickles from the cuts on your forehead, it may be time to give… Continue reading
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Episode 266: Shasta Grant!
Episode 266 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s show, I talk to fiction writer Shasta Grant, the Kerouac House resident from the spring of 2017, about novel writing, planning and plotting, and finding the life in the words. NOTES… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #185: Shoot First, Die Later
The Curator of Schlock #185 by Jeff Shuster Shoot First, Die Later Crime doesn’t pay! I’ve been criticized over the fact that I choose too many violent pictures for this blog. Hey, I don’t choose violent movies. Violent movies choose me. That being said, I’m willing to switch things up for one night. How about… Continue reading
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Pensive Prowler #8: Alienating the Alien
Pensive Prowler #8 by Dmetri Kakmi Alienating the Alien Let’s not mistake this for a review of Ridley Scott’s Alien Covenant. It’s more of a free-wheeling jazz improvisation on what went through my benumbed brain as I watched the vaudevillian pantomime. It’s also full of spoilers. So I recommend you read it and save your… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespearean Film #56: The Merry Wives of Windsor (1982)
56. David Jones’s The Merry Wives of Windsor (1982) My sweet readers, I have broken a promise in watching a BBC Complete Shakespeare film. I well know that fine actors were unable to rescue such productions, but I was tempted by my desire to see more Falstaff, and in particular my desire to see the great… Continue reading
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Episode 265: Todd Boss!
Episode 265 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s show, I talk to Todd Boss, whose new book, Tough Luck, includes a poem sequence inspired by the disaster of the I-35W Bridge’s collapse in Minneapolis, plus Malcolm Kelly reads his poem,… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #184: Stunt Squad
The Curator of Schlock #184 by Jeff Shuster Stunt Squad And the crowd goes wild. We’ve covered vigilante movies on this blog before. We know the basic premise. Crime is out control. The justice system is either anemic or is actually complicit in rising crime. An honest citizen stands up and takes the law into… Continue reading
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