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November 12, 2022

Episode #551: Elliot Ackerman!

Episode 551 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s program, I talk to the fiction writer and memoirist Elliot Ackerman. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES TDO listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to… Continue reading

Episode, Journalism, Memoir, War

November 9, 2022

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #198: Cat Time

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #198 by Drew Barth Cat Time How much time do we actually have? We sleep, roughly, eight hours and work for an additional nine. But then we have overtime and all the preparations for getting to work and the chores we need to deal with to keep our… Continue reading

Comic Books, Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart

November 5, 2022

Episode 550: Jonathan Ames!

Episode 550 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s program, I talk to the fiction writer and former memoirist Jonathan Ames. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES TDO listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link… Continue reading

Craft of Fiction Writing, Creative Nonfiction, Episode, Television

November 5, 2022

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #196: Damned If You Don’t

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #196 by Drew Barth Damned If You Don’t Although the spooky season will soon close, ghosts and demons flow through the pages of comics—even the ones that Fredric Wertham thought would jump out and murder children—a proudly ignominious tradition. Today, we have a new spookier series releasing in Damn… Continue reading

Comic Books, Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart, Horror

October 31, 2022

Episode 549: TDO Loves The Curator of Schlock #14

Episode 548 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, Jeff Shuster and I discuss a wild, strange, deadpan, homicidal roadtrip story that is The Doom Generation. TEXTS DISCUSSED Roger… Continue reading

Episode, Film, satire

October 29, 2022

Episode 548: TDO vs. The Curator of Schlock #13

Episode 548 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, Jeff Shuster and I discuss the 1993 horror anthology film, Body Bags. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES TDO listeners can get 20% of… Continue reading

Episode, Film, Horror

October 22, 2022

Episode 547: TDO vs. The Curator of Schlock #12

Episode 547 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, Jeff Shuster and I discuss the 1992 Peter Jackson masterpiece of a family drama, Dead Alive. NOTES TDO listeners can get… Continue reading

Episode, Film, Horror

October 19, 2022

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #195: Legendary Status

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #195 by Drew Barth Legendary Status The Spook season isn’t just for the ghosts, goblins, and skeletons we’re all used to seeing stalk the streets on Halloween night, it’s for the legends that accompany them. Much of the aesthetic we associate with spooks comes from the folklore and… Continue reading

Comic Books, Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart, Horror, manga

October 16, 2022

Episode 546: TDO vs. The Curator of Schlock #11

Episode 546 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, Jeff Shuster and I discuss the strange 1991 masterpiece from France that is Delicatessen. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES TDO listeners can get… Continue reading

Episode, Film, Horror

October 13, 2022

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #194: Creep Along

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #194 by Drew Barth Creep Along I hate the comics code. You hate the comics code. We all hate the comics code. Beside the general sanitization of comics in the 50s and Fredric Wertham clutching his pearls so hard his face turned purple, the code caused the cancellation… Continue reading

Comic Books, Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart, Horror

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