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The Curator of Schlock #227: Assassination Games
The Curator of Schlock #227 by Jeff Shuster Assassination Games Play this game and you might get burned. (Nope. Let me try this again.) In this game, the winners are the losers. (Nope. That subhead doesn’t make any sense. Third time’s the charm.) Check, mate! The great Sidney Lumet once said that being a movie… Continue reading
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Pensive Prowler #19: A Life in the Day of an Editor
Pensive Prowler #19 by Dmetri Kakmi A Life in the Day of an Editor When I’m not being a writer, I am disguised as a mild mannered freelance editor, complete with spectacles, and I do what all editors must do to earn a buck. Prostitute myself. That’s to say, I sell myself to publishers and… Continue reading
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Episode 315: Terri Witek!
Episode 315 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s program, I talk to the poet Terri Witek. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES I’ll be reading with the other contributors to this awkward sexcapade anthology! Episode 315 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #226: Pound of Flesh
The Curator of Schlock #226 by Jeff Shuster Pound of Flesh Bad movie! Bad! It looks like there’s some scuttlebutt online about a new TV show in the works set in the Batman universe. It’s called Pennyworth? Oh, it’s about Alfred Pennyworth, Batman’s butler. And it’s a prequel series. So I expect we’ll be seeing… Continue reading
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Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #10: Diamanda Galás with John Paul Jones: The Sporting Life
Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #10 by Stephen McClurg Diamanda Galás with John Paul Jones: The Sporting Life (1994) […]For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying. ~Rainer Maria Rilke,… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #61: The Madeleine Project
Buzzed Books #61 by Amy Watkins Clara Beaudoux’s The Madeleine Project: Uncovering a Parisian Life When Clara Beaudoux moved into a new apartment in Paris, she inherited the overflowing basement storage unit of the deceased previous tenant, an elderly woman named Madeleine. Madeleine had no living relatives, and her next of kin, a godson, told… Continue reading
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Episode 314: Tom Stern!
Episode 314 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s program, I talk to the novelist and filmmaker, Tom Stern. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES I’ll be at two forthcoming events in the City Beautiful. Laura Lee Bahr will give her farewell reading… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #225: Dragon Eyes
The Curator of Schlock #225 by Jeff Shuster Dragon Eyes And Ol’ Blue Eyes…sort of. No blog last week. I was busy celebrating May the 4th, spent the whole day dressed as Sy Snootles. We here at The Museum of Schlock would like to extend a belated May the 4th to all the Star Wars… Continue reading
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Episode 313: A Craft Discussion of An Essay on Criticism, with Vanessa Blakeslee!
Episode 313 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 with Vanessa Blakeslee about Alexander Pope’s Essay on Criticism and twitter and other stuff. NOTES Pre-order Vanessa’s forthcoming short story collection, Perfect Conditions, or check out Vanessa’s other work. If you like Walt… Continue reading
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Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #9: Stump: Quirk Out (1986)
Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #9 by Stephen McClurg Stump: Quirk Out (1986) Stump, a band difficult to categorize, is compared most frequently to Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band. Stump formed right around the time that Beefheart’s last official album, Ice Cream for Crow (1982), came out, so maybe something in the ether passed… Continue reading
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