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Buzzed Books #92: Red Comet: Heather Clark’s The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
Buzzed Books #92 by Jan Elizabeth Watson Heather Clark’s Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath at nineteen, smiling broadly, her face scrunched into what Ted Hughes once described as a “tight ball of joy.” It was the photo on The Bell Jar’s back cover that hooked me first. Below that, a paragraph-long bio… Continue reading
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The Perfect Life #11: Risk a Verse
The Perfect Life #11 Dear Dr. Perfect, My girlfriend always wants me to listen to her read her poetry. At this point, listening to her recitations takes up about ten hours every week. I don’t know how she can write so much verse. Frankly, the poems aren’t that bad, but her stentorian reading voice raises… Continue reading
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Episode 465: Samantha Hart!
Episode 465 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 speak with Samantha Hart about her wonderful debut memoir, Blind Pony, Plus I speak with Scott Cunningham about the monthlong poetry… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #348: The Big Knife
The Curator of Schlock #348 by Jeff Shuster The Big Knife Serious movie time! So Big Tom had a heart attack. The doctor says he’s forbidden from trucking for the next six months. That means there’s no one to deliver that fancy canning equipment for that ready-to-eat salmon salad canning factory up in Saskatchewan. No… Continue reading
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The Perfect Life #10: The Art of Compromise
The Perfect Life #10 Dear Dr. Perfect, I love my fiancée, but I am beginning to be alarmed by our love life. He is sensitive and thoughtful, and even writes his own feminist blog. Plus, he loves to cuddle. But we make love only 2-3 times a month. He claims he is too tired from… Continue reading
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Episode 464: A Discussion of Allie Brosh’s Solutions and Other Problems (with Leslie Salas)!
Episode 464 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 Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Half and Solutions and Other Problems. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES TDO Listeners can… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #347: The Shadow
The Curator of Schlock #347 by Jeff Shuster The Shadow Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of Hollywood producers? I’m going to take a break from the Arrow Home Video releases this week as Big Tom subjected me to a rewatch of his favorite movie, 1994’s The Shadow from director Russell Mulcahy. Tom had an… Continue reading
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