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The Curator of Schlock #228: The Devil Inside
The Curator of Schlock #228 by Jeff Shuster The Devil Inside This might be the worst movie of the decade. Hello patrons of my blog. Welcome back to another riveting collection of my personal musings of the cinema of our times. Yes, I continue to marvel at this decade of the 2010s and the movies… Continue reading
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A Word from the King #4: Comic Book Panels from Orlando Megacon 2018
A Word from the King #4 by John King Comic Book Panels from Orlando Megacon 2018 On Friday, I went to the Orange County Convention Center to attend Orlando Megacon, to try to cover it, sort of the way I do Miami Book Fair, in terms of watching and sharing panels. Maybe someday I’ll interview… Continue reading
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Episode 316: Laura Lee Bahr!
Episode 316 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 fiction writer, screenwriter, and film director Laura Lee Bahr at the close of her residency at the Kerouac Project of Orlando. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Episode 316… Continue reading
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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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