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Buzzed Books 89: The World’s Desire (Ballantine 1977 edition)
Buzzed Books 89 by Mark Scroggins H. Rider Haggard and Andrew Lang’s The World’s Desire (Ballantine 1977 edition) The story behind this lurid paperback is fascinating, though not quite as fascinating as the book itself. In 1965, Ballantine Books issued a paperback edition of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, which had been published in hardcover… Continue reading
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Episode 359: Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman!
Episode 359 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 talk to Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman about classical music, social class, memoir, and authenticity. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES TDO will be sharing a table with Black Fox Literary Magazine at AWP… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #266: Twilight of the Cockroaches
The Curator of Schlock #266 by Jeff Shuster Twilight of the Cockroaches Not to be confused with Grave of the Fireflies. The VHS cassette box for Twilight of the Cockroaches, a live action/anime hybrid movie, has a quote from Richard Harrington of The Washington Post. He says, “Could do for cockroaches what ‘The Secret of NIMH’… Continue reading
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Episode 358: Mark Blake, Part 2!
Episode 358 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 talk to Mark Blake, biographer of Peter Grant, about what happened to Led Zeppelin after Led Zeppelin. TEXT DISCUSSED Episode 358 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about… Continue reading
Atlantic Records, Bad Company, Boogie with Stu, Burning Down One Side, Chris Farlowe, David Coverdale, Hot Dog, In Through the Out Door, Jason Bonham, Jimmy Page, John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Led Zeppelin, Live Aid, Mark Blake, No Quarter, Now and Zen, Outrider, Paul Rodgers, Peter Grant, Robert Plant, Shaken ‘n Stirred, Swan Song, The Black Crows, The Firm, The Principle of Moments, Whitesnake -
The Curator of Schlock #265: The Professional: Golgo 13
The Professional: Golgo 13 Sex & Violence: The Motion Picture I was on a James Bond kick around the same time I started getting into state of the art Japanese animation. Naturally, I wanted these two interests to converge in the form of an anime that resembled a Bond film. Eventually, I would discover Lupin the… Continue reading
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Episode 357: Mark Blake!
Episode 357 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 talk to music writer Mark Blake about his new biography of Peter Grant, the man who empowered Led Zeppelin to become the most popular rock band of all time.… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #264: Lily C.A.T.
The Curator of Schlock #264 by Jeff Shuster Lily C.A.T. Not for kids. Streamline Pictures was instrumental in bringing state of the art Japanese animation to the United States back in the early 90s. It wasn’t marketed as anime like it is now. There was no existing audience for Japanese animation like there is today.… Continue reading
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