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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #78: O [Othello] (2001)
78. Tim Blake Nelson’s O [Othello] (2001) This nugget of a film fell between the cracks of the art house crowd and the teenagers who went to see Save the Last Dance, The Princess Diaries, and Final Destination. Admittedly, the premise didn’t seem promising: set Othello in a prep school with the tragic hero being… Continue reading
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Episode #341: The Interplanetary Acoustic Team!
Episode 341 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 Brian Turner & Jared Silvia about making a beautiful, experimental poetic album of space ballads and duets. Episode 341 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #249: Holiday Movie Preview 2018
The Curator of Schlock #249 by Jeff Shuster Holiday Movie Preview 2018 I’ve got nothing. I was going to cover 2018’s Skyscraper from director Rawson Marshall Thurber. It stars Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Neve Campbell. There are evil terrorists trying to burn down the world’s tallest building located in Hong Kong. The Rock’s character has a… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #79: Spy Seal: The Corten-Steel Phoenix
Buzzed Books #79 by Drew Barth Rich Tommaso’s Spy Seal: The Corten-Steel Phoenix (Collects Issues 1-4) Let’s talk about adventure comics. While DC Comics published their own, titled Adventure Comics in kind with Action and Detective, the realm of adventure comics as a genre is uniquely European. Hugo Pratt’s Corto Maltese, the various works of Jacques… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #77: King Lear (2018)
77. Richard Eyre’s King Lear (2018) I basically hate Macbeth, and I like Lear even fucking less than that, sweet reader, but when the BBC released a film of the elderly tragedy starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson, my hand was obviously forced into watching it. As I’ve said before, in Lear “There’s a lot… Continue reading
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Episode 340: LaTanya McQueen!
Episode 340 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 creative nonfiction writer LaTanya McQueen about how our stories sometimes choose us, how to write a really good footnote, and how to try to talk about history… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #248: Peppermint
The Curator of Schlock #248 by Jeff Shuster Peppermint Jennifer Garner as Mrs. Vigilante. This must be the year of the vigilante film. We had the Death Wish remake with Bruce Willis, which was pretty good. We have that Death Kiss movie coming out starring a “Robert Bronzi,” but we all know someone out there in tinsel… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #78: Edgardo Franzosini’s The Animal Gazer
Buzzed Books #78 by Drew Barth Edgardo Franzosini’s The Animal Gazer Consider the elephant. Consider what you know about its form and presence, for that is the first thing the reader is asked to do in Edgardo Franzosini’s The Animal Gazer. We are given a picture of a sculpture by Rembrandt Bugatti, famed sculptor and… Continue reading
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Episode 339: Kimberly Lojewski!
Episode 339 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 fiction writer Kimberly Lojewski! TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES Check out my interviews with Tony Hoagland back on episode 40 and 132. Episode 339 of The Drunken Odyssey, your… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #77: Melissa Broder’s The Pisces
Buzzed Books #77 by Drew Barth Melissa Broder’s The Pisces Let’s talk about mermen. They’re old lore. More or less. We’re all familiar with the general structure of a person with human bits on top and fish bits further down. But that’s just the myth, and myths aren’t the whole story. The backstory for The… Continue reading
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