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Episode 386: A Craft Discussion of Mystery and Manners, with Vanessa Blakeslee and Lisa Roney!

28 Saturday Sep 2019

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Flannery O'Connor, Lisa Roney, Mysteries and Manners, Pollyana, The Straight Story, Vanessa Blakeslee

Episode 386 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

In this week’s episode, I wear an ugly shirt from outer space  to speak with Vanessa Blakeslee and Lisa Roney about Flannery O’Connor’s Mysteries and Manners.

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Check out my literary adventure novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

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The Curator of Schlock #292: Death Kiss

27 Friday Sep 2019

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Charles Bronson, Death Kiss, Robert Kovacs

The Curator of Schlock #292 by Jeff Shuster

Death Kiss 

Death Wish 6: The Kiss of Death

Sadly, we lost Charles Bronson back in 2004. Hopes of a Death Wish 6 went with him. Sure, we got the Death Wish remake with Bruce Willis and that was fine, but Bruce Willis isn’t Paul Kersey, he’s John McClane. Still, we’ve got a few billion people on this planet. There’s an old saying that there’s at least one other person in the world that looks exactly like you so surely there’s at least one person in the world who looks exactly like Charles Bronson. Ladies and gentlemen, I present Robert Kovacs.

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Now, I know what you’re thinking. You can’t just find some random guy who looks like Charles Bronson and just make an unofficial Death Wish sequel and just call it Death Kiss.

You can if you’re director Rene Perez!

Don’t be a Negative Nancy! Robert Kovacs plays “The Stanger,” but for the purposes of this review, we’re calling him Paul Kersey. So Paul Kersey goes to this house in a shady part of some unnamed city (Washington, D.C.) and asks the man standing out front for a cheese pizza. I’m more of a pepperoni and green peppers man myself. And this request is odd, as this dump does not resemble a pizza parlor.

Oh, cheese pizza is code for…uh…okay…not good.

Kersey hogties the pimp and goes inside to find a young girl tied up on the bed, pleading, “Please not again.” A degenerate who reminds me a little of Jared the Subway guy pops of the bathroom zipping up his pants. Kersey pulls out Wildey and shoots some slugs into the pedophile. Kersey then leaves and shoots the pimp in the back. Death Wish has returned for the 21st century!

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We get more scenes of Kersey taking out the bad guys. He shoots and kills a couple of gangbangers. At an airport, he kicks a guy repeatedly in the stomach. This man is smuggling drugs into the country by ingesting little bags of them. After the repeated kicking, the man ODs right there in the airport. Between these killings are scenes of a right wing radio talk show host, Dan Forthright (Daniel Baldwin), complaining about how the news media prioritizes reporting about racism instead of child sex trafficking or how the police treat spousal abuse more seriously than the drug gangs.

In the midst of all of this chaos, Kersey is sending envelopes of money to a single mom named Ana (Eva Hamilton) whose daughter is paralyzed and bound to a wheelchair. Turns out Ana was a junkie who got her daughter caught in a crossfire when she was going to get her fix from a drug lord named Tyrell (Richard Tyson). Kersey doesn’t know if it was his bullet or Tyrell’s that paralyzed Ana’s little girl. He keeps spying on Ana until she notices him and invites him over to lunch, the least she could do after Kersey sent her so much money.

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Tyrell is a nasty, sadistic drug lord. After Tyrell’s son gets sent to jail because one his new recruits didn’t have the stuff to murder a witness, he makes the recruit kill some guy wearing a burlap sack on his head. The gang hands the recruit a baseball bat and he bashes the guy until the sack goes red. Tyrell then removes the sack revealing the guy to be the recruit’s own father! Kersey eventually catches up with Tyrell and I don’t want to spoil things, but don’t be surprised if Tyrell ends up getting tied to a tree, covered in barbeque sauce, and beset by wolves.

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Death Kiss can best be described as a month in the life of Paul Kersey. Not a bad way to waste away your Friday night.


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Photo by Leslie Salas.

Jeff Shuster (episode 47, episode 102, episode 124, episode 131, and episode 284) is an MFA graduate from the University of Central Florida.

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #37: Much About Samurai and Mecha

25 Wednesday Sep 2019

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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #37: Much About Samurai and Mecha

Comics have always been political despite what some in the fandom scream on Twitter.

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If any singular creator’s work has enhanced the political in contemporary comics, it is writer Greg Pak. His work with Boom! Studios, like the series Ronin Island with Giannis Milonogiannisand Mech Cadet Yuwith Takeshi Miyazawa, deal with post-colonial themes, presenting these with subjects commonly associated with Asian cultures, like samurai and giant robots.

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When looking here at the beginning pages of Mech Cadet Yu, we see Stanford Yu in a janitorial position, speaking a different language, and being othered from more privileged characters. During a ceremony in which the giant mecha descend down to choose their pilots, Yu is not present due to his social status. He is not supposed to have a role in defending his world from alien invaders, yet he finds one of the mechs crashed in the desert a short distance from the ceremony. And with this robot behind him, Yu enters that world that had shunned him.

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Takeshi Miyazawa’s art helps to foster this sense of bright hopefulness that is interlaced with the return of a catastrophic invasion and the sense that Yu will never be accepted as a pilot due to his class and otherness. The world is vibrant even when on fire or being crushed under a massive invasion force; characters emote in a way that plays with our hearts; and the mecha themselves feel classic as though pulled straight from early 70s Toei TV series.

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Likewise with Ronin Island and Giannis Milongiannis’ artwork, we’re transported into a full-color Kurosawa epic. And while Ronin Islandshares many of the same themes as Mech Cadet Yu, it does so with a more specific critique of imperialism. From the beginning of the series, our main characters, Kenichi and Hana, are the first generation to be born on The Island after an event known as The Great Wind that caused the deaths of thousands and forced a small band of survivors from many parts of Asia to take refuge on a single small island. In an effort to both find an immunity to the disease of The Great Wind and weaponize the disease itself, the current Shogunate created a breed of nigh unkillable demons of the recently deceased.

Ronin Island wears its disdain for imperial ideologies on its sleeve. From the general incompetence of a Shogun who clings to the old traditions of family names and blood to the ignorance of life outside the palace, Pak continually speaks truth to power. And for the residents of The Island who face an invasion from the Shogunate as well as the demons they’ve created, it only highlights the incompetence that endangers its people for short-term gain without thinking of consequences or the people caught in the middle.

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For monthly western comics, it’s hard to find a series that will take its critical lens to ideas of invasion and colonialism, but Greg Pak has come through with an approach that is direct and surprising. At times to better push the medium, we need to push more critically into the stories we tell. Monthly series like Ronin Island and Mech Cadet Yu help bring those serious political themes into local comic shops where they need to be.

Get excited. There’s more than you think.


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Drew Barth (Episode 331) is a writer residing in Winter Park, FL. He received his MFA from the University of Central Florida. Right now, he’s worrying about his cat.

Episode 385: Gilbert King!

21 Saturday Sep 2019

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Beneath a Ruthless Sun, Devil in the Grove, Gilbert King

Episode 385 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

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In this week’s episode, I talk with historian and crime writer Gilbert King about the history of justice and journalism, the role of luck in research, experimenting with presentation until a passage feels right, and how to manage one’s doubts when pursuing a writing project.

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This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at Scribophile.

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Check out my first interview with Gilbert back on episode 60!

Check out my literary adventure novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

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The Curator of Schlock #291: 10 to Midnight

20 Friday Sep 2019

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10 to Midnight, Charles Bronson

The Curator of Schlock #291 by Jeff Shuster

10 to Midnight

After midnight, Warren gonna let it all hang down.

Week 3 of Charles Bronson Month is here. This week will be a return to form with his salt and pepper hair and boss mustache, none of that black mop nonsense we bore witness to last week. Who did he think he was? One of the Beatles? Unbelievable. Charles Bronson is supposed be the dad we never had, if the dad we never had was a man that killed other men indiscriminately.

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1983’s 10 to Midnight from director J. Lee Thompson is a depressing little film about a man named Warren Stacy (Gene Davis). We don’t like Warren in a similar fashion to how we don’t like Bad Ronald from Bad Ronald. Warren is a creepy dude who repairs electric typewriters for a living. He’s not too good with the ladies. They see him as a loser weirdo. No, he’s not almost forty seeking out sixteen-year-old girls. But Warren does decide to murder one of the office women who rejected him.

Yeah, this isn’t going to be a fun movie. Watching young women scream in terror as a naked psychopath stabs them to death is not my idea of a good time. Yes, Warren stabs his victims while naked so as not to get blood on his clothes. That’s rather clever, the sort of thing I can see a serial killer doing in real life. Maybe that’s why I find Warren so disgusting. He’s like a real life serial killer as opposed to a Hollywood serial killer.

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Enter Detective Leo Kessler (Charles Bronson), a tough as nails Los Angeles cop who’s seen it all, seen how the justice system lets the scum of the earth back on the streets to terrorize the rest of the citizenry. He’s joined by Detective Paul McAnn (Andrew Stevens), a wet-behind-the-ears kid who still thinks law is here to protect us. Paul still idolizes Leo for all the commendations he’s earned over the years.

Warren’s first victim, Betty (June Gilbert) was a childhood friend of Leo’s daughter, Laurie Kessler (Lisa Eilbacher). While at the victim’s funeral, Betty’s parents tell Leo that their daughter kept a diary of the men she dated and the creepers who stalked her. Also at the funeral is Warren Stacy, who overhears this tidbit. Warren goes to Betty’s apartment, tries to pry open her locked dresser drawer to get at the diary, stabs Betty’s roommate to death when she comes home, and continues to pry at the drawer until it opens. Warren finds a box with word Diary inscribed on it, but there’s no diary inside.

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When Warren gets back to his apartment, Detective Leo and Paul are waiting for him, Betty’s diary in Leo’s hand. Leo asks Warren about how he knew Betty, and why she wrote about how much of a creeper he is in her diary. Leo uses Warren’s bathroom and discovers a plethora of nudie magazines and sex toys. They’re about to question Warren further, but the detectives get a phone call informing them about Betty’s murdered roommate.

Leo is convinced Warren is the culprit. Meanwhile, Warren is developing an obsession with Laurie Kessler. He keeps calling her, saying obscene things to her over the phone. I don’t know. At some point, Warren gets arrested for something and lawyers up with a dirtbag lawyer. Leo plants some of Betty’s blood on Warren’s clothes hoping to put him away once and for all, but Paul doesn’t want to give false testimony during Warren’s trial. Leo admits he fabricated evidence, gets fired, and Warren goes free. Boo!

Well, you know how it goes. Warren is going to kill more women. Charles Bronson will put a slug in his forehead. That should make me happy, but the whole experience left me feeling empty inside.


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Jeff Shuster (episode 47, episode 102, episode 124, episode 131, and episode 284) is an MFA graduate from the University of Central Florida.

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #36: The Comeback

18 Wednesday Sep 2019

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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #36 by Drew Barth

The Comeback

On rare occasions, comic series go on extended hiatuses before returning in a glorious fashion. Two such series—Warren Ellis and Jason Howard’s Trees and Kelly Sue DeConnick and Emma Rios’ Pretty Deadly—have each made a such return after three-year breaks.

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Launched in 2013, Pretty Deadly flows continually down Rios’ line work and along the words DeConnick brings to the surface about Death’s daughter, Ginny. The series both mythologizes and humanizes Ginny as she intermingles with a single family, the Fields, through the American west, the trenches of WWI-era France, and now 20s Hollywood.

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Trees by Warren Ellis and Jason Howard ask a question we’ve all pondered: what if giant, alien space trees descended from the sky and slammed into the planet? With Trees, the answer is people reacting poorly. What Ellis is doing in this series, bolstered by Howard’s frantically precise artwork, is working quietly with the mystery of these trees in a patiently evolving plot that avoids cataclysmically escalating plots.The new Three Fates installment continues this trend.

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These series’ returns are not simply branded as Pretty Deadly and Trees. Rather, they are Pretty Deadly: The Rat and Trees: Three Fates. This switch was discussed both on DeConnick’s Twitter and Warren Ellis’ newsletter: with such a long break between issues, it made more publishing sense to start these returns as new series, to help new readers find their way in more easily, and to give collector’s a new inaugural issue to collect. The quality of the new first issues of Pretty Deadly and Trees demonstrates how fortunate a new reader would be encountering these series for the first time and how much of a treasure they are for readers that have been waiting for their return.

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The return of these two series is to delight in the words of De Connick and Ellis and to marvel at the art of Howard and Rios. There is still nothing else on the monthly shelves that rivals these series in raw creative force and freedom. To sink into a page of Pretty Deadly is to be immersed in the continual splendor of a dreadful, wondrous world. Trees brings to mind mysterious offices filled with smoke and people yelling at each other because not a soul can figure out what a giant, silent alien device is doing.

Get excited. We’re coming back.


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Drew Barth (Episode 331) is a writer residing in Winter Park, FL. He received his MFA from the University of Central Florida. Right now, he’s worrying about his cat.

Episode 384: Galaxy’s Edge Review, with Todd James Pierce!

14 Saturday Sep 2019

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Episode 384 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

In this week’s episode, I talk with creative writer and Disney historian Todd James Pierce about the new developments in role-play storytelling that were and perhaps still are planned for Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland and Disney’s Hollywood Studios park at Walt Disney World.

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According to the end of the line cast member outside Oga’s Cantina, you can’t see all three of Batuu’s suns, but you could certainly feel them, on a day called Heatstroke-in-the-Shade.

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My score as a gunner, on a later visit to Smuggler’s Run.

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This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at Scribophile.

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Check out Todd James Pierce’s site and podcast, Disney History Institute.

Check out my literary adventure novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

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Episode 384 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

The Curator of Schlock #290: Lola

13 Friday Sep 2019

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The Curator of Schlock #290 by Jeff Shuster

Lola

I think you’re growing up too soon, girl. 

I don’t like it when box art lies. This goes back to the days of Mom & Pop video rental palaces, when you’d see some movie you’ve never heard of with an intriguing cover only to be disappointed when you popped it in the VCR when you got home. This brings us to tonight’s movie, 1969’s Lola from director Richard Donner (of Superman fame).

Look at this DVD cover.

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We have Charles Bronson in a coat brandishing a pistol. This brings to mind Paul Kersey, the vigilante from the Death Wish movies, but there’s one big problem. Charles Bronson doesn’t have a mustache, nor does he brandish a gun in this movie. The back of the case claims that the movie was directed by John Sturges, but it was, in fact, directed by Richard Donner. The backs reads, “Charles Bronson, Susan George, and Trevor Howard star in this gritty portrayal of a man struggling to keep his demons at bay.” Nope. Again, I’m not seeing it.

This is a goofy 60s comedy about a thirty-eight year-old man dating a sixteen-year-old girl.

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Susan George plays Lola (also known as Twinky in some versions), a sixteen-year-old English girl who just happens to be having intimate relations with Scott Wardman (Charles Bronson), a close to middle-aged writer of pornographic fiction who’s living in a London flat. Lola tells Scott that she spilled the beans to her parents, and her father is furious. Scott asks her what the age of consent is in England. She says it’s sixteen, but England can still deport Scott or send him to jail for other reasons. Lola consulted the family lawyer on this. Scott chases Lola out the apartment, but then chases after her. They decide to get married in Scotland, where a man can marry a sixteen-year-old girl. Problem solved!

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What am I watching here? The movie presents this situation as cute and zany. I wasn’t alive in ’69. I’m not that clear on what the social norms were, but I’m surprised that at no point in this movie do we find an angry mob surrounding Scott and beating him to death. Maybe if John Sturges had directed this movie.

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Lola’s father says their marriage won’t work out. Lola’s mother seems more sympathetic and wishes them the best. I can’t help, but notice how attractive Lola’s mother is. Then I realize she is none other than Honor Blackman (Pussy Galore from Goldfinger). There’s a theme song for Lola that’s sung by Jim Dale, the narrator of the Harry Potter books, that I mistook for a lost Dave Clark Five track.

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Scott and Lola move to New York City where Scott begins a career as a failed novelist. Scott is required to enroll Lola in high school, as it is the law.

I keep imagining there’s an alternative version of this movie where Lola falls in love with the captain of the football team and asks Scott to drive them to prom.

Anyway, Lola leaves Scott a Dear John letter after they get into a fight over her cat.

The end.

What does it all mean? This movie is messing with my head.


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Photo by Leslie Salas.

Jeff Shuster (episode 47, episode 102, episode 124, episode 131, and episode 284) is an MFA graduate from the University of Central Florida.

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #35: And Once Again

11 Wednesday Sep 2019

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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #35 by Drew Barth

And Once Again

Five years. That’s how long Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, Matt Wilson, and Clayton Cowles have been creating The Wicked + The Divine. With that forty-fifth issue just being released this past week, it’s hard not to get nostalgic. Whether it was through the monthly issues, the trade paperbacks, the various specials, or the online support groups, all of us dug ourselves into the actual fandemonium the series had inspired.

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But that’s all we’ve got. The series has ended.

We all knew WicDiv would end eventually. The premise of the series was that once a generation, young people would be bestowed godhood and would essentially become the cultural icons of their time. But in two years they would die as a means of fighting back the Great Darkness. The cycle happened for thousands of years, hundreds of times. That was the story that was told to each of the reincarnated gods by Ananke.

A more typical version of this story would have the reincarnated gods just fight the Great Darkness and win, or even to simply live out those two years and die one by one. But From Phonogram to Young Avengers to WicDiv, Gillen and McKelvie have never done a simple thing in their collaborations together.

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WicDiv is a story in which all of the stories we had been told before are lies. There is no Great Darkness, and there is no reason anyone has to die outside of one character’s belief that they should be witness to history and that their story should be the one that is sustained throughout all of human culture. And the biggest lie of all is that the story needs to keep going.

But what they never tell you is that the story can just stop. The characters can just say “no” like they’re in an anti-drug ad. The stories ended because these characters gave up being those characters. The gods they had been reincarnated as—and the names we as observers of this story had grown accustomed to calling them—were given up, and they were just people again. Permanently mortal people. The godhood wasn’t a costume or ring to take on and off, but an aspect of the story they would have found themselves trapped in. And as a reader, we can see these changes happening. From the characters themselves to the way in which the panels within the book have been set up—it all points toward an exiting of the programmatic story.

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But then, now what? The last pages of the last issue are intentionally left blank. We’ve begun and ended the story with a mortal Laura Wilson and all the godhood in-between—and we must create a new story from the space we’ve been left.

If The Wicked +The Divine is about anything, it’s about the stories we tell to get through life. It’s about the music we share as a part of those stories. It’s about the drama and the theater of existing. It’s about people making decisions—mostly bad decisions—and having to deal with the repercussions.

For a story about reincarnations of gods, it’s a weirdly humbling experience to see a very human level of consequence. We never felt catharsis during those times we would see the scared kids wearing god costumes underneath all the pomp and circumstance. As far as the story Ananke had told them had gone to their head, there was always that human element within.

I don’t think we’re going to see a series like The Wicked + The Divine for a while. And that’s okay. That’s why those last pages were blank in the last issue.

Get excited. Make a story.


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Drew Barth (Episode 331) is a writer residing in Winter Park, FL. He received his MFA from the University of Central Florida. Right now, he’s worrying about his cat.

Episode 383: Scott Phillips!

07 Saturday Sep 2019

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Cottonwood, Rake, Scott Phillips, The Adjustment, The Ice Harvest

Episode 383 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

In this week’s episode, I talk with crime novelist Scott Phillips, author of The Ice Harvest, Cottonwood, Rake, The Adjustment, and other books.

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TEXTS DISCUSSED

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This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at Scribophile.

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Check out my literary adventure novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

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Episode 383 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

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