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  • December 11, 2020

    The Curator of Schlock #334: Suspira

    The Curator of Schlock #334 by Jeff Shuster Suspiria The greatest horror movie of all time? I won’t argue.  I made one request of Jervis. While I am busy scribbling away on the My-Dinner-With-Andre-but-with-vampires script, I thought a nice, cool glass of egg nog might hit the spot. I asked that the next time Jervis… Continue reading

    Blog Post
  • December 9, 2020

    Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #100: Cool Cats

    Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #100 by Drew Barth Cool Cats The horrifying ordeal of being famous hits hardest when you’ve been doing something a hundred times. You’ve been reading this blog for a while now and there is something that has been a consistent staple of every single installment since its inception. If… Continue reading

    Comic Books, Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
  • December 5, 2020

    The Diaries of a Sozzled Scribbler #22

    The Diaries of a Sozzled Scribbler #22 Transcribed by DMETRI KAKMI 5 December 2020 I’m writing from Saint School. It’s located in the bush outside the township of Maldon, Victoria. The latter is a state in Australia, for those who don’t know geography, which is just about everyone in the USA, n’est-ce pas? Calm down.… Continue reading

    Sozzled Scribbler
  • December 5, 2020

    Episode 449: A Very German Christmas Discussion (with Vanessa Blakeslee)!

    Episode 449 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 episode, I talk with Vanessa Blakeslee about the excellent new anthology, A Very German Christmas, from New Vessel Press. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES TDO Listeners can get… Continue reading

    Blog Post, Christmas, Christmas literature, Episode, Poetry
  • December 2, 2020

    Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #99: Another History

    Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #99 by Drew Barth Another History DC is one of comics’ oldest publishers, but much of its history is overlooked. DC’s focus occasionally shifts to its Golden and Silver ages, or into periods of the 1980s. Created by John Ridley, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Andrea Cucchui, José Villarrubia, and Steve… Continue reading

    Comic Books, Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
    Black Lightning, John Ridley, The Other History of DC Comics
  • November 28, 2020

    448: Peniel E. Joseph!

    Episode 448 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). Dr. Peniel E. Joseph and I discuss the careers of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcom X, and how examining them together reveals the complexities… Continue reading

    Episode, Miami Book Fair
    Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr, Peniel E. Joseph, The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, The Sword and the Shield
  • November 27, 2020

    The Curator of Schlock #333: The Rock

    The Curator of Schlock #333 by Jeff Shuster The Rock Sean Connery and Nic Cage. ‘Nuff said.  This was the worst Thanksgiving ever! I sat with Jervis, Wally, Celestial, Bud, and some guy that looked like the Amazing Kreskin. They were eating a ham dish with extra glaze. I’m not a big ham eater, and… Continue reading

    Film, The Curator of Schlock
    Nicolas Cage naked, Sean Connery
  • November 25, 2020

    Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #98: November, November

    Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #98: November, November I’ve talked in the past about how much I love short blasts of story. There’s honestly little better to me than picking up a novella after a long novel. And what Matt Fraction, Elsa Charretier, Matt Hollingsworth, and Kurt Ankeny have crafted with the second… Continue reading

    Comic Books, Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
  • November 21, 2020

    Episode 447: Candacy Taylor!

    Episode 447 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 week’s show, Candacy Taylor and I discuss her new book, Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America. We… Continue reading

    Episode, History, Journalism, Memoir
  • November 20, 2020

    The Curator of Schlock #332: The Black Cauldron

    The Curator of Schlock #332 by Jeff Shuster The Black Cauldron I liked it! Wally has kept me locked in my bedroom as I churn out pages for a spec script that reads like My Dinner With Andre, but with vampires. Wally figures once we pique the interest of Hollywood execs, he can pressure them… Continue reading

    animation, Disney, Fantasy, Film, The Curator of Schlock
    Lloyd Alexander, Richard Rich., Ted Berman, The Black Cauldron, The Chronicles of Prydain, Walt Disney Studios
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The Drunken Odyssey is a forum to discuss all aspects of the writing process, in a variety of genres, in order to foster a greater community among writers.

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