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The Perfect Life #1
The Perfect Life #1 Dear Dr. Perfect, Three months ago, I married the most wonderful man. He was completely supportive of me keeping my name after our wedding. My mother-in-law gave us Versace tableware that costs more than my car. The problem is that she had them monogrammed. My husband and I actually share our… Continue reading
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Episode 455: Elif Shafak!
Episode 455 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 talk to the novelist Elif Shafak about the importance of the structure of literary novels, the sublime oddity of the… Continue reading
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Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #16
Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #16 by Stephen McClurg Dua Saleh: Rosetta EP (2020) The songs on Dua Saleh’s Rosettasurge through rap, pop, and rock–sometimes in the same track. Considering the namesake of the EP is Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Dua Saleh’s Sudanese-American Musilim background, the record expresses the desires, joys, and challenges of a multi-hyphenated existence. A video… Continue reading
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Episode 454: Sarah Kuhn!
Episode 454 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). This week, I talk to the novelist and graphic novel writer Sarah Kuhn about writing about Cassandra Cain for a YA audience, the demographics of… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #338: Space 1999 (Season One)
The Curator of Schlock #338 by Jeff Shuster Space 1999 (Season One) Lightning strikes twice for Gerry Anderson. The kangaroo and I are finally getting along. Turns out she loves Fruit Roll Ups. I’ve gone ahead and named her Edwige. Apparently, she must be a professional boxer because she’s wearing baby blue gym shorts and… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #87: All is True (2018)
87. Kenneth Branagh’s All is True, 2018. I have a fraught relationship with Kenneth Branagh’s cinematic Shakespeare work. As an actor, he perhaps has no equal, certainly among his own generation. As a director, his indiscriminate courting of Hollywood has led to so many embarrassments. He has made more Shakespeare films than Olivier, yet as… Continue reading
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453: Carolyn Forché!
Episode 453 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). This week, I talk to the poet and memoirist Carolyn Forché about her latest collection, In the Lateness of the World. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES TDO… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #337: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
The Curator of Schlock #337 by Jeff Shuster On Her Majesty’s Secret Service The Bond everyone forgets. Okay. I got a little tipsy last night on too much of the bubbly. I wake up wearing nothing, but a pair of red polkadot boxer shorts. My right arm has a bloody gash. No doubt someone in the… Continue reading
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