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Episode 677: A Discussion of The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt, with Rachael Tillman!
Episode 677 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this episode, John and Rachael discuss the poetic output of Hannah Arendt’s poetry, newly translated into English in a new book from Norton, translated by Samantha Rose Hill and Genese Grill, plus Fred… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #533: From Corleone to Brooklyn
“Hey, man,” Banana-Man said standing in nothing but his underwear. “Don’t kill me.” The Revenging Manta, the ninja vigilante of downtown Orlando, held his sword at the ready. I could see the bloodlust in his eyes. He wanted to cut the head off of this man who feigned selling chocolate covered bananas to children with… Continue reading
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McClurg’s Marginalia #131: Stupid Orbits
Sublime eclectic mayhem. That’s been my playlist project and musical life, one that begins with The Muppet Movie soundtrack and later involves performing hymns, death metal, surf, and bluegrass. I’ve played in theaters, tents, and basements, for multi-stage festivals and squirrel rodeos. I’ve written and recorded music for The Drunken Odyssey. Sublime eclectic mayhem. A… Continue reading
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Episode 676: Skye Jackson!
Episode 676 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this episode, John speaks with Kerouac Project of Orlando resident Skye Jackson about how to create a poetry collection that can be read in one sitting, how to balance the concrete and imaginative… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #532: The Violent Professionals
In a flash, the Revenging Manta sliced his blade into the bullet flying toward my heart, cleaving it in two. The ninja vigilante of downtown Orlando then directed his attention to the man in the banana costume, cutting the fabric to ribbons until all that was left standing was a hairy man wearing nothing but… Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia #130: Barking Angels
Sublime eclectic mayhem. That’s been my playlist project and musical life, one that begins with The Muppet Movie soundtrack and later involves performing hymns, death metal, surf, and bluegrass. I’ve played in theaters, tents, and basements, for multi-stage festivals and squirrel rodeos. I’ve written and recorded music for The Drunken Odyssey. Sublime eclectic mayhem. A… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #327: A Room Full of Corpses
One of the prevailing conspiracy theories in this country’s history has been how a secret cabal of some kind—rich people, aliens, subterranean terrors, etc—has really been in control of everything happening and that whatever else we see is just spectacle. But for those doing the controlling, the spectacle does have to get boring after a… Continue reading
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Episode 675: Tom McAllister!
Episode 675 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this episode, John speaks with Tom McAllister about writing burnout, writing prompts, revision, and discovery, as well as Tom’s wonderful new collection of flash memoirs, It All Felt Impossible. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Check… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #531: Revolver
My life flashed before my eyes. That first time seeing Howard the Duck, Roadhouse, and Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. That time I got my outward retainer stuck in my left eye. That time I stuck a wad of aluminum foil in the microwave to see what happened. These are the things one thinks of before one dies. The bullet… Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia #129: Possession and Other Spiritual Maladies
Sublime eclectic mayhem. That’s been my playlist project and musical life, one that begins with The Muppet Movie soundtrack and later involves performing hymns, death metal, surf, and bluegrass. I’ve played in theaters, tents, and basements, for multi-stage festivals and squirrel rodeos. I’ve written and recorded music for The Drunken Odyssey. Sublime eclectic mayhem. A… Continue reading
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