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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #261: But, Doctor…
Regardless of if we want them or not, we have to send in the clowns. But then that would make us feel better, right? The descendants of jesters traipsing around and pulling long strings of hankies out of their mouths for shits and giggles. They’re supposed to be funny—we expect them to be funny. But… Continue reading
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Replay: Episode 570 with Kathleen Rooney!
On this replay episode, I talk to Kathleen Rooney about finding the fun despite the end of The Great Enlightenment, the joys of mixing wit and earnestness in verse, the fun of exploring the landscapes of AWP locations despite mentally frying beneath fluorescent lights, the tactile pleasures of typewriters, and other important matters. TEXT DISCUSSED… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #449: Killer Party
Where was I? Right. A few punks were messing around with a corpse I had on display in my exhibit of Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond at the Museum of Schlock. They removed the spikes that attached the corpse to a facsimile of a basement wall. With no more support, the corpse slumped to the ground.… Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia #64: Over the Bent World Broods
Sublime eclectic mayhem. That’s been my playlist project and musical life, one that begins with The Muppet Movie soundtrack and later involves performing hymns, death metal, surf, and bluegrass. I’ve played in theaters, tents, and basements, for multi-stage festivals and squirrel rodeos. I’ve written and recorded music for The Drunken Odyssey. Sublime eclectic mayhem. A warning and a… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #260: Keeping One City Afloat
Cities are odd. Living on top of and around one another, makes things hectic. Even more so when these people are humans, elves, mermaids, satyrs, gaseous beings, and all other manner of creatures. Note that the setting of in Kelly Thompson, Meredith McClaren, and Becca Carey’s Black Cloak is the only remaining city on the planet after… Continue reading
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Episode 614: Celeste Ng & Ben Fountain!
On today’s show, Samantha Nickerson interviews the fiction writers Celeste Ng and Ben Fountain! TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Learn more about Miami Book Fair. The Kerouac House is re-opening its writers residency after taking a 1-year hiatus. We have also expanded the number of residencies from four to SIX per year. If you’re interested, visit our Submittable page and… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #448: The Vagrant
A group of punks dragged the Revenging Manta, the ninja vigilante of downtown Orland, into my exhibit of Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond. One encphlitic punk whipped the limp body of the Revenging Manta with a chain. Another guy in a ski mask mocked my display of the ungodly warlock Schweick. I had a sign warning customers… Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia #63: Last Night at the Three of Cups
Sublime eclectic mayhem. That’s been my playlist project and musical life, one that begins with The Muppet Movie soundtrack and later involves performing hymns, death metal, surf, and bluegrass. I’ve played in theaters, tents, and basements, for multi-stage festivals and squirrel rodeos. I’ve written and recorded music for The Drunken Odyssey. Sublime eclectic mayhem. A warning and a… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #259: A Hole in the Locked Room
Arkham Asylum, Ryker’s Island, Belle Reve, The Raft, all superhuman prisons designed the be relatively improbable to be broken out of—although, let’s be honest, their walls are typically make of colanders. It isn’t often, though, that someone tries to break into any of these prisons. And less often that someone breaks in with the express… Continue reading
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Episode 613: Jamel Brinkley & M. Evelina Galang!
On today’s show, Chelsea Alice interviews the short story writer Jame Brinkley and John King interviews short story writer M. Evelina Galang. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Learn more about Miami Book Fair. The Kerouac House is re-opening its writers residency after taking a 1-year hiatus. We have also expanded the number of residencies from four to SIX… Continue reading
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The Drunken Odyssey is a forum to discuss all aspects of the writing process, in a variety of genres, in order to foster a greater community among writers.
Recent Posts
- Episode 721: A Secret DVD Commentary of Stephen King’s Maximum Overdrive, with Chad Coup!
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- Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #380: Mistakes Are Made
- Episode 720: A Discussion of Sylvia Plath’s Ariel, with Rachael Tillman!
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