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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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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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