November 2020
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448: Peniel E. Joseph!
Episode 448 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). Dr. Peniel E. Joseph and I discuss the careers of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcom X, and how examining them together reveals the complexities… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #333: The Rock
The Curator of Schlock #333 by Jeff Shuster The Rock Sean Connery and Nic Cage. ‘Nuff said. This was the worst Thanksgiving ever! I sat with Jervis, Wally, Celestial, Bud, and some guy that looked like the Amazing Kreskin. They were eating a ham dish with extra glaze. I’m not a big ham eater, and… Continue reading
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Episode 447: Candacy Taylor!
Episode 447 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). On this week’s show, Candacy Taylor and I discuss her new book, Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America. We… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #332: The Black Cauldron
The Curator of Schlock #332 by Jeff Shuster The Black Cauldron I liked it! Wally has kept me locked in my bedroom as I churn out pages for a spec script that reads like My Dinner With Andre, but with vampires. Wally figures once we pique the interest of Hollywood execs, he can pressure them… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #97: Do You Have a Moment to Talk About Robots?
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #97 by Drew Barth Do You Have a Moment to Talk About Robots? From Gundam to Pacific Rim to Big O, I’m likely to be all in if there’s a robot bigger than most buildings stomping around somewhere. The newest series from Vault Comics, Alex Paknadel and John… Continue reading
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The Diaries of a Sozzled Scribbler #21
The Diaries of Saint Sozzled Scribbler #21 Transcribed by DMETRI KAKMI 16 November 2020 In an exclusive interview with CNN’s silver-haired cutie-pie Anderson Cooper, Saint Sozzled Scribbler talks in a sonorous voice through a burning bush about Donald Trump. AC: As a saint of the Catholic Church, how do you feel about the Trump defeat… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #331: Sword of the Valiant
The Curator of Schlock #331 by Jeff Shuster Sword of the Valiant Now in widescreen! Okay. Here’s a summary of my life in the last couple of months. I moved into an old southern manor house somewhere on the outskirts of the Florida Everglades. I had a servant named Jervis who cooked me fine food,… Continue reading
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Episode 446: Phil Klay!
Episode 446 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). On this week’s show, fiction writer and veteran Phil Klay and I discuss finding the right form for a novel, war literature, and winning the… Continue reading
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Aesthetic Drift #26: Dr. Paglia Probes
Dr. Paglia Probes — Pop, the Net and Alfred Hitchcock by DMETRI KAKMI In 1998 I was writing for SevenMag—a print and online publication dedicated to the singer Prince, of all things. One day the editor Vicki Shuttleworth asked who I wanted to interview. Camille Paglia was my immediate response. The feminist firebrand had burst… Continue reading
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