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Episode 344: Loose Lips December 2018!
Episode 344 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I share a recording of Loose Lips, the monthly current events literary thing run by Burrow Press, who selected Katherine J. Parker to curate and host this installment. TEXTS… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #252: A Wish for Christmas!
The Curator of Schlock #252 A Wish for Christmas Be my most tasty little dish! Thus begins week 2 of our Hallmark Christmas Movie Yuletide Extravaganza. I love these movies. They’re like the cozy sweater vest of American cinema. If only they would have a marathon of them in an IMAX theater. I want that… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #82: Flavor
Buzzed Books #82 by Drew Barth Joseph Keatinge and Wook Jin Clark’s Flavor Vol. 1 (Collects Issues 1-6) “Culinary consultant” may be my favorite thing I’ve seen in a comic credits page in a while. Seeing a culinary consultant, specifically Ali Bouzari, on a credits page in a comic that is about food in all… Continue reading
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Episode 343: A Very Italian Christmas!
Episode 343 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I talk with Vanessa Blakeslee about the new story anthology, A Very Italian Christmas, from New Vessel Press. In our discussion, we manage to talk about yuletide loneliness, poverty, despair, prostitution, elk herds, Christmas,… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #251: A Christmas Melody
The Curator of Schlock #251 by Jeff Shuster A Christmas Melody All I want for Christmas is poo. I’m still reeling from last week’s column on Raw, a French/Belgium production about the trials and tribulations of two sisters who happen to be cannibals. Sometimes you gaze into the abyss and it gazes right back. Other… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #81: Alyson Hagy’s Scribe
Buzzed Books #81 by Drew Barth Alyson Hagy’s Scribe Let’s talk about magic realism. Magic realism is kind of odd and nebulous in how it behaves, but a reader always knows it when they see it. Magic realism gives off a feeling of being immersed, being familiar and yet not. These senses all come together… Continue reading
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Episode #342: Linda Buckmaster!
Episode 342 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I talk to poet and memoirist Linda Buckmaster about how our subjects sometimes choose us, the wondrous weirdness of Florida, and how the find form in the flux of composition.… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #250: Raw
The Curator of Schlock #250 by Jeff Shuster Raw I’m not moving to France. Each year, I try to cover a cannibalism movie the day after Thanksgiving as a means to gross out my readership after they’ve gorged themselves on candied yams and other assorted delicacies. But I may have bit off more than I… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #80: Jason Heller’s Strange Stars
Buzzed Books #80 by Drew Barth Jason Heller’s Strange Stars Stars, man. Also, Starman. We can bring in the 70s music scene with the crippling depression of the Altamont Free Concert, or with a blast of cosmic literature radiation that would seep its way into popular culture throughout the decade. And this explosion of new… Continue reading
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Pensive Prowler #25: The Algorithm That Ate the Dick Pic
Pensive Prowler #25 by Dmetri Kakmi The Algorithm That Ate the Dick Pic It all started with a dick pic. This one to be precise. It’s the cover for Taschen’s The Big Penis Book. I posted it in response to a friend’s Facebook post—from here on referred to as Facepalm Booklet. The friend wanted to… Continue reading
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