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Buzzed Books #78: Edgardo Franzosini’s The Animal Gazer
Buzzed Books #78 by Drew Barth Edgardo Franzosini’s The Animal Gazer Consider the elephant. Consider what you know about its form and presence, for that is the first thing the reader is asked to do in Edgardo Franzosini’s The Animal Gazer. We are given a picture of a sculpture by Rembrandt Bugatti, famed sculptor and… Continue reading
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Episode 339: Kimberly Lojewski!
Episode 339 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 fiction writer Kimberly Lojewski! TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES Check out my interviews with Tony Hoagland back on episode 40 and 132. Episode 339 of The Drunken Odyssey, your… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #77: Melissa Broder’s The Pisces
Buzzed Books #77 by Drew Barth Melissa Broder’s The Pisces Let’s talk about mermen. They’re old lore. More or less. We’re all familiar with the general structure of a person with human bits on top and fish bits further down. But that’s just the myth, and myths aren’t the whole story. The backstory for The… Continue reading
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Episode 338: Horror Movie Poetry Night V!
Episode 338 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 am joined by Joshua Begley, AC Warner, Katherine Parker, Elise McKenna, Tom Lucas, Amy Watkins, Joshua Dull, Dianne Turgeon Richardson, and Vincent Crampton Count Orlock for Horror Movie Poetry Night… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #247: Day of the Dead
The Curator of Schlock #247 by Jeff Shuster Day of the Dead: Bloodline Three times is not the charm. Okay, Halloweenies. Your Curator of Shock is here with wrap up October with the George Romero classic, Day of the Dead. Get ready for zombies that say hello to their Aunt Alicia and prepare to eat… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #76: Because Everything is Terrible
Buzzed Books #76 by Will Rincon Because Everything is Terrible by Paul Guest Paul Guest’s fourth poetry collection, Because Everything is Terrible, wastes no time pulling the reader into his world. “First this happened: you woke in a dim glade, / pine trees leaning in, all around.” The twenty-two-page opening poem, “After Damascus” is broken into thirteen… Continue reading
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Pensive Prowler #24: Justice League of Steppenwolf
Pensive Prowler #24 by Dmetri Kakmi Justice League of Steppenwolf The following does not constitute a film review of Justice League. More a running commentary as my befuddle mind tried to make sense of the movie through an alcoholic haze. As the movie begins (I can’t put my finger on what’s wrong with the title),… Continue reading
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Episode 337: A Roundtable Discussion of Stephen King’s Danse Macabre!
Episode 337 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 am joined by Dale Lucas, Tom Lucas, and Elise McKenna for a deep dive into Stephen King’s 1981 treatise on the horror genre, Danse Macabre. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES Check out Don… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #246: Rings
The Curator of Schlock #246 by Jeff Shuster Rings Ring-a-Ding-Ding! I’ve been putting this off. 2017’s Rings from director F. Javier Gutiérrez is the movie responsible for Paramount cancelling the next installment of the Friday the 13th series of films. Apparently, Rings was supposed to be their new cash cow annual horror film series with… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #75: Convenience Store Woman
Buzzed Books #75 by Drew Barth Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman There’s familiarity in a convenience store. Safety, even. We walk into a convenience store and have certain expectations about what’s likely going to happen. Familiar drinks, chips, candy, hot dogs rolling away. It’s within this familiarity we find Keiko Furukura: thirty-eight year-old part-time convenience… Continue reading
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