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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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Episode 336: Sean M. Conrey!
Episode 336 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 the poet Sean M. Conrey about poetry, religion, trees, and our long ago time at Purdue University. TEXT DISCUSSED Episode 336 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #245: Wish Upon
The Curator of Schlock #245 by Jeff Shuster Wish Upon Whatever happened to Ryan Phillippe? What’s up, home skillet? Just your resident non-boomer here, curating the most shocking movies he can get his hands on. I thought I would review a young adult movie this week. We’re all about the young adult movies here at… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #74: The Only Harmless Great Thing
Buzzed Books #74 by Drew Barth Brooke Bolander’s The Only Harmless Great Thing There aren’t that many books I’ve read that include exploding elephants. There are even fewer books that include exploding elephants that have an emotional impact that hits with the force of an exploding elephant. And yet here we are. The elephant in… Continue reading
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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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