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  • Episode 485: Drew Barth!

    Episode 485 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 Drew Barth about comic book obsessions. NOTES TDO Listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile.… Continue reading

  • The Curator of Schlock #366: Death Walks at Midnight

    The Curator of Schlock #366 by Jeff Shuster Death Walks at Midnight Also known as Cry Out in Terror I got my second vaccine shot yesterday and experienced some nasty fever dreams. I had a vision of Edwige beating me within an inch of my life to the delight of a cheering crowd in Madison… Continue reading

  • Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #135: Crate Digging: Hellblazer #63

    Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #135 by Drew Barth Crate Digging: Hellblazer #63 Did you know that Bruce Wayne would be turning about 102 this year? Dick Grayson would also be well into his nineties. Jason Todd would be a young man in his fifties. That is, of course, if these characters would… Continue reading

  • The Perfect Life #22

    The Perfect Life #22 Dear Dr. Perfect, My husband has tendency to jump onto dieting trends, such as vegetarianism, veganism, keto diets, gluten-free diets, et cetera, et cetera, et-fucking-cetera. These swerves in our food consumption tend to be expensive, and I try to be GGG regarding this experiment in gastrointestinal distress, but now he insists… Continue reading

  • Episode 484: James Tate Hill!

    Episode 484 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 interview fiction writer and memoirist, James Tate Hill. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES TDO Listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription… Continue reading

  • The Curator of Schlock #365: Death Walks on High Heels

    The Curator of Schlock #365 by Jeff Shuster Death Walks on High Heels One of these days these heels are gonna walk all over you.  Just one more week of Edwige, my kangaroo traveling companion, and I camping out in this abandoned shopping mall somewhere on the outskirts of Pittsburg. Next week, I get my… Continue reading

  • Comics are Trying to Break Your Heart #134: History

    Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #134 by Drew Barth History I said in the past that the first issue of The Other History of the DC Universeis the most important comic the publisher has put out this century. Eight months later, the entire series is now out. Is it still the most important… Continue reading

  • The Perfect Life #21: When the Caterpillar Calls Your Child

    The Perfect Life #21 by Dr. Perfect When the Caterpillar Calls Your Child Dear Dr. Perfect, My wife wants to drop acid with our son for his ninth birthday. I have suggested mushrooms instead. How can we compromise to do what’s best for our child? Sincerely, Lost ————- Dear Lost, Do you want to experience… Continue reading

  • Episode 483: Tim Parks!

    Episode 483 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 interview a writer I’m obsessed with, the prose writer Tim Parks. We talk about walking and its relationship to composition,… Continue reading

  • The Curator of Schlock #364

    The Curator of Schlock #364 by Jeff Shuster The Ghoul Not the one with Boris Karloff.  I’m busy wrapping pennies I found in the scummy water fountain at this abandoned mall I’ve been squatting in. I have a total of twenty one dollars and fifty cents so far. That’ll buy me two weeks of Oodles… Continue reading