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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

  • Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #133: Broth-y Comics

    Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #133 by Drew Barth Broth-y Comics It’s been a while since I last talked about food in comics, so let’s change that. Ramen overlaps with comics in a weird way as something ubiquitous, but still perceived as cheap and for a very specific crowd. That’s why it’s so… Continue reading

  • Episode 482: A Discussion of Introducing Cultural Studies, with Leslie Salas!

    Episode 482 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, Leslie Salas and I discuss Ziauddan Sardar and Borin Van Loon’s Introducing Cultural Studies. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES TDO Listeners can get… Continue reading

  • The Curator of Schlock #363: Crimes of Passion

    The Curator of Schlock #363 by Jeff Shuster Crimes of Passion Kathleen Turner and Anthony Perkins, together again for the first time. Hooray. Canada will start letting in fully vaccinated citizens and permanent residents of the United States beginning on August 9th. Good thing I got my first dose a few weeks back and will… Continue reading

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  • Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #132: Peeling the Layers

    Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #132 by Drew Barth Peeling the Layers According to the cinematic touchstone, Shrek, onions have layers. They can be peeled until the core is reached. But then no one wants to talk about the skin. But we should consider the onion skin, particularly Edgar Camacho’s Onion Skin. Broken up into… Continue reading

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  • Episode 481: Catherine Raven!

    Episode 481 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). On this episode, I talk to biologist Catherine Raven about her wonderful new memoir, Fox & I: An Uncommon Friendship. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES TDO Listeners… Continue reading

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  • The Curator of Schlock #362: The Zero Boys

    The Curator of Schlock #362 The Zero Boys From zeroes to heroes in no time flat.  Edwige and I have been exploring this abandoned mall somewhere on the outskirts of Pittsburgh. There was once a Spencer’s Gifts in this mall. Do any of you remember Spencer’s Gifts? I bought my first whoopee cushion at Spencer’s… Continue reading

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