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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #76: National Theatre Live: Hamlet
75. Robin Lough’s National Theatre Live: Hamlet (2015) My recent thesis, that successful stage productions should just be filmed rather than adapted for a purely cinematic version, isn’t being born out as well as I had hoped, even if The National Theatre Live’s 2015 version of Hamlet sparkles with greatness. “If thou hast nature in… Continue reading
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Episode 335: Jane Ridgeway!
Episode 335 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 Jane Ridgeway about our stories and characters choosing us instead of the other way around, the delicious problem of historical fiction, and what teenagers today like… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #244: Mandy
The Curator of Schlock #244 by Jeff Shuster Mandy This is some weird shit. It’s October, the time of year when your Curator of Schlock becomes the Curator of Shock. Over the next few weeks, we will be showcasing only the most spine-tingling of tales. Last year, I ended October with a review of The… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #73: Some Hell
Buzzed Books #73 by Aurora Huiza Patrick Nathan’s Some Hell Patrick Nathan’s novel, Some Hell, opens with terrible secrets. Colin, a young boy troubled by his queerness, secretly watches his father hold an unloaded gun to his head and pull the trigger. Colin later sneaks into his father’s empty study, finds the bullets, and loads the gun… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #72: Prism Stalker Vol. 1
Buzzed Books #72 by Drew Barth Sloane Leong’s Prism Stalker Vol. 1 (Collects Issues 1-5) The best kind of science fiction is the kind that blends genres, forms, themes, social issues into a stew that heartily sits in a reader’s stomach. It’s this kind of blending that makes Sloane Leong’s solo Image Comics debut… Continue reading
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Episode 334: Ben Gwin & Jared Silvia!
Episode 334 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 novelist Ben Gwin about postmodern satire, addiction, whether MFAs ruin or sustain writers, and for some reason I insist that he needs to write poetry, plus I talk… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #243: Batman vs. Two-Face
The Curator of Schlock #243 by Jeff Shuster Batman vs. Two-Face West and Shatner, together again for the first time. There’s a new insult making its way throughout cyberspace. It’s all the rage right now to label people who may be the teensiest bit out of touch with modern culture and technology, boomers. If like… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #71: Earthling
Buzzed Books #71 by Will Rincon James Longenbach’s Earthling Few poetry collections can connect with both poetry aficionados and newcomers alike the way Earthling does. Professor and critic, James Longenbach exemplifies contemporary poetry with his fifth collection, one that draws readers in with simplicity into the themes of childhood, mothers, and nihilism. The speakers of these poems… Continue reading
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Episode 333: Peter Kuper!
Episode 333 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 Peter Kuper about Kafka, the remarkable art form of comic books, the indie comic book scene in the late 1980s, Spy Vs. Spy, finding your Muse when it… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #242: Batman Ninja
The Curator of Schlock #242 by Jeff Shuster Batman Ninja Batman + Ancient Japan = Awesome! Batman Day has come and gone. The Sewer King display at The Museum of Schlock was a resounding success with a whole five patrons’ eyes transfixed on the five animation cells from The Underdwellers episode of Batman: The Animated Series that… Continue reading
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