March 2022
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The Perfect Life # 36
The Perfect Life # 36 by Dr. Perfect Dear Doctor, Girl Scout Cookie season is upon us, but I was recently diagnosed with a severe gluten allergy. Seriously considering taking a week off work and bingeing a box or four of Thin Mints, for old times sake. Talk me off this ledge. Sincerely, The Sad… Continue reading
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Episode 516: A Discussion of Sally Rooney’s Novels, with Rachael Tillman!
Episode 516 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 show, Rachel Tillman and I discuss the novels of Sally Rooney. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES TDO listeners can get 20% of a… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #374: Leprechaun 4: In Space
Leprechaun 4: In Space That is not how you title a movie! Bad things were going down in a marsupial slaughtering factory in the Canadian Province of Saskatchewan. A bloodied factory worker had screamed about “devils on the loose” before breathing his last. Then came the howls from a shifting black mass of doom creeping… Continue reading
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Episode 515: Sara Manning Peskin!
Episode 515 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 show, I talk to Sara Manning Peskin about the history of the mysteries and discoveries of medical science. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #166: The Long Violent
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #166 by Drew Barth The Long Violent How much do we really inherit from our parents? Right before the plague hit, I took a look at the first issue of Tartarus and how the dual narrative of parent and child influenced how the story presented itself and its… Continue reading
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Episode 514: Laura Costas!
Episode 514 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 show, I talk to Laura Costas about the pleasures of disorientation, the surprises of actual history, the complexity of myth, and… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #373: The Secret of Nimh
The Curator of Schlock #373 by Jeff Shuster The Secret of NIMH I like cartoons. Stop giving me grief. We heard the screeching, a sound of hellish death coming from beyond. The factory security guard brandished a taser and I wondered why we hadn’t run away with the rest of the factory personnel that had… Continue reading
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