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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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The Curator of Schlock #122: Look What’s Happened to Rosemary’s Baby
The Curator of Schlock #122 by Jeffrey Shuster Look What’s Happened to Rosemary’s Baby (Can’t imagine anything good) Your Curator of Schlock has a confession to make. I am Rosemary’s baby! Yeah, my mom’s name is Rosemary, but don’t worry, I’m not the Anti-Christ or anything. Lots of women are named Rosemary. Plus, if I… Continue reading
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21st Century Brontë #7: The Unlikeable, Likeable Character
21st Century Brontë #7 by Brontë Betterncourt The Unlikeable, Likeable Character Late last year I started a Dungeon & Dragons 5e campaign. The decision occurred around 2:30-3:00 A.M. Previously, my D&D experience ranged from on and off participation in my friend 3.5th edition, and the inkling of participation in my other friend’s Pathfinder edition. Both… Continue reading
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On Top of It #10: Holiday Market
On Top of It #10 by Lisa Martens Holiday Market Last year, I sold jewelry at the holiday market in Columbus Circle. This involved standing in the freezing rain with a heater at my feet. My hands and head cold. The soles of my shoes melting. Inching forward and back to wrap necklaces with a… Continue reading
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On Top of It #5: Governors Island: A Decaying Fantasy
On Top of It #5 by Lisa Martens Governors Island: A Decaying Fantasy “Governors Island looks so insignificant from up here.” — Marge Simpson There are three small islands forming a triangle in New York Harbor, and all of them contain National Parks. You probably know two of them—The Statue of Liberty, which you may have… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #44: Outsiders
Heroes Never Rust #44 by Sean Ironman Outsiders While the second issue of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen begins with the gang taking down Mr. Hyde and features the team stopping the Invisible Man from molesting women, the comic still seems very concerned with the treatment of minorities and outsiders in England. When the team… Continue reading
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