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Aesthetic Drift #14: I Read Ethan Frome Every January
Aesthetic Drift #14 by Scott Hoffman I Read Ethan Frome Every January For the past decade or so, I’ve read Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome every January. I’m still trying to figure out why. The story is simple. (I suppose I should announce “spoilers alert!” here, but we’re all adults.) Ethan is a hard-scrabble farmer trapped Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #166: Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
The Curator of Schlock #166 by Jeff Shuster Beyond the Poseidon Adventure That’s Sir Michael Caine It’s hard to believe that 2016 is almost over…finally. I wouldn’t say that this year has been as excruciating for me as it has for some because I’ve been reviewing nothing but pre-1980 classic schlock. Still, we’ve had a Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #159: It! The Terror from Beyond Space
The Curator of Schlock #159 by Jeff Shuster It! The Terror from Beyond Space Huh? What’s beyond space? Your curator had a nightmare the other night. In my dream, there was a raccoon tapping at my bedroom window. I tried shooing it away, but the raccoon got real angry, scratching the glass with its claws. Continue reading
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21st Century Brontë #25: Breathtaking Characters
21st Century Brontë #25 by Brontë Bettencourt Breathtaking Characters Last Saturday, I went to see Kubo and the Two Strings. The movie begins on a small boat at night, during a storm in the middle of an ocean. A lone, distraught woman is about to be swallowed by a massive tidal wave when she parts Continue reading
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Episode 221: There Will Be Fan Fiction 2 (The Revenge)
Episode 221 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 share There Will Be Fan Fiction 2, a special edition of Jesse Bradley’s prose reading series, There Will Be Words. This installment features the fan fiction of Shauna Basques Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #146: The Return of Ringo
The Curator of Schlock #146 by Jeff Shuster The Return of Ringo (I didn’t know he had left!) As I write this, the world is celebrating the 75th birthday of Ringo Starr, the most influential Beatle as Yoko Ono recently claimed as claimed by James Woodhall in his recent article for The Spectator, “Ringo’s no Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #133: Nude for Satan
The Curator of Schlock #133 by Jeff Shuster Nude for Satan (This movie makes less sense than Lost Highway.) So I watched Olympus Has Fallen last night. That’s the one where Gerard Butler saves the President of the United States from North Korean terrorists. I like that movie. Butler kills the terrorists, saves the United Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #41: English Kills
Buzzed Books #41 by Amy Watkins Monica Wendel’s English Kills Monica Wendel’s chapbook, English Kills (winner of the 2015 Coal Hill Review Chapbook Prize) elegantly meditates upon the themes of birth, language, history, and survival. The speaker of these poems is a teacher contemplating becoming a mother, but the book doesn’t slap you in the face Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #127: Don’t Torture a Duckling
The Curator of Schlock #127 by Jeff Shuster Don’t Torture a Duckling I’m a free American. I’ll do what I want Am I the only one who caught this season of Grantchester on Masterpiece Mystery? The show is about an Anglican priest who helps the police solve crimes in a small village near Cambridge. He’s also in love Continue reading
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