October 2019

October 30, 2019

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #42: Haunting the Panels

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #42 by Drew Barth Haunting the Panels It is the eve of All Hallows Eve! For this, the spookiest time of the year, we have looked at some of the greatest masters of horror comics as well as a new series likely going to maintain chills well into… Continue reading

Comic Books, Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart, Horror

October 29, 2019

Buzzed Books #91: Aaron Sorkin’s To Kill a Mockingbird

Buzzed Books #91 by Chuck Cannini Aaron Sorkin’s To Kill a Mockingbird on Broadway A friend of mine paced in his living room one evening. Bill O’Reilly spoke to him from a television screen; something about a man named George Zimmerman, who had fatally shot African-American teenager Trayvon Martin. What mattered was how this friend of… Continue reading

Buzzed Books, Theater

October 26, 2019

390: The Batalogues, with Patty Hawkins!

Episode 390 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 share the talk Patty Hawkins and I had about Todd Phillip’s Joker. We put it in a Batman context,… Continue reading

Comic Books, Episode, Film

October 25, 2019

The Curator of Schlock #296: The Body Snatcher

The Curator of Schlock #296 by Jeff Shuster The Body Snatcher Karloff and Lugosi together again for the last time. I didn’t know that being a body snatcher was once an up and coming profession for industrious men living in the early 1800s. It would seem that medical schools at the time were hungry for… Continue reading

Horror, The Curator of Schlock

October 23, 2019

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #41: A Short Break

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #41 by Drew Barth A Short Break This week we’re going to take a break from the spooks—although there are some spooks in the comics I’m going to mention—and shift our focus to boxes. Everyone remembers Loot Crate from a couple years ago and the various comic-related paraphernalia… Continue reading

Comic Books, Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart

October 19, 2019

Episode 389: Ron Cooper!

Episode 389 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 interview Ron Cooper about Florida literature, research, and the mystery of existentital characters. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES This episode is… Continue reading

Craft of Fiction Writing, Episode, Florida Literature, Literature of Florida

October 18, 2019

The Curator of Schlock #295: Cat People

The Curator of Schlock #295 by Jeff Shuster Cat People Cat People got no reason to live. My editor seems to think that Mad Love was first romance movie I covered on my blog. Not true. What about The Love Witch, Someone I Touched, Lola, Fist of the North Star, Day of the Dead: Bloodline, My Bloody Valentine, The Vengeance of She, The Boy Next… Continue reading

Film, Horror, The Curator of Schlock

October 16, 2019

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #40: Another Master of Horror

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #40 by Drew Barth Another Master of Horror The spooks continue this week with a look at another creator whose work has kept me awake on more than one occasion: Junji Ito. His work has become synonymous with horror manga over the last fifteen years in the US.… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart, Horror

October 12, 2019

Episode 388: Erik Deckers!

Episode 388 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 interview Erik Deckers about how he finished the novel he began as a resident at the Kerouac Project of… Continue reading

Craft of Fiction Writing, Episode, Kerouac House

October 11, 2019

The Curator of Schlock #294: Mad Love

The Curator of Schlock #294 by Jeff Shuster Mad Love Old movies are weird. The Little Debbie Pumpkin Delights brand of cookies is the greatest packaged soft cookie the American chemical confectionary industry has ever produced. I don’t want to hear about Fig Newtons. Give me a break. Pumpkin Delights taste like fall and Halloween and all that… Continue reading