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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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Buzzed Books #74: The Only Harmless Great Thing
Buzzed Books #74 by Drew Barth Brooke Bolander’s The Only Harmless Great Thing There aren’t that many books I’ve read that include exploding elephants. There are even fewer books that include exploding elephants that have an emotional impact that hits with the force of an exploding elephant. And yet here we are. The elephant in Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #234: A Death Wish Addendum
The Curator of Schlock #234 Kersey vs. Kersey (A Death Wish Addendum) Here we are again. I had a request from my editor last week to compare Charles Bronson’s performance in the original Death Wish to Bruce Willis’s in the remake. My initial reaction was “Charles Bronson gave a performance in the original Death Wish?” Continue reading
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Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #10: Diamanda Galás with John Paul Jones: The Sporting Life
Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #10 by Stephen McClurg Diamanda Galás with John Paul Jones: The Sporting Life (1994) […]For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Continue reading
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Episode 291: A Very French Christmas!
Episode 291 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 fiction anthology, A Very French Christmas, from New Vessel Press. NOTES Some context for the dubious Dutch tradition of Black Pete. David Sedaris discusses this in Continue reading
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Episode 290: Jacob Shores-Agüello
Episode 290 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. This week I talk to Jacob Shores-Agüello, the resident of the Kerouac House in summer of 2017. We talk about the roles that genres play in the process of mourning, the improvistory games that can Continue reading
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Aesthetic Drift #16: How to Read the Entire Dark Tower Series while Still Having a Life
Aesthetic Drift #16 by Don Peteroy How to Read the Entire Dark Tower Series while Still Having a Life 1. I’ve already lied to you. This essay’s title has little to do with what I’ve actually written. I was thirty-seven when I decided I’d attempt to read every Stephen King novel. I’d made a half-ass Continue reading
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Episode 263: Missy Barnes, Lena Barker, and Nicholas D’Allesandro!
Episode 263 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 show, I talk to Missy Barnes, Lena Barker, and Nicholas D’Allesandro about their production of Urinetown, plus Sasha Graybosch shares some thoughts about Denis Johnson. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Follow the Annie Russel theatre Continue reading
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