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Episode 302: Cheryl Della Pietra!
Episode 302 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 Cheryl Della Pietra, an editorial assistant to Hunter S. Thompson in 1992, about the dynamics of working with him, the reality of the actual writer’s… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #216: Blair Witch
The Curator of Schlock #216 by Jeff Shuster Blair Witch That Blair Witch will tear you a new one. I don’t care if some of you didn’t think my Last Witch Hunter review was thorough enough. I don’t care. I’m not part of the Wiki-generation. I don’t get 35th Dolans or witch counsels or the… Continue reading
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Pensive Prowler #16: Would That Which We Call an Arse by any Other Name Smell as Sweet?
Pensive Prowler #16 by Dmetri Kakmi Would That Which We Call an Arse by any Other Name Smell as Sweet? “Are you writing about the whole butt or are you writing just about the hole?” —Rochelle Siemienowicz It need hardly be said that male buttocks have been around since antiquity. We need only… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #70: Henry VI Parts 1 & 2 (2016)
70: Dominic Cooke’s Henry VI Parts 1 & 2 (2016) I am an outright Shakespeare junkie, dear readers. This you should know by now. Yet the prospect of outright speed-balling multiple Shakespeare plays in one sitting seems daunting, even to me. I am aware of festivals that mount all of The War of the Roses… Continue reading
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Episode 301: Loose Lips, February 2018!
Episode 301 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 share a recording of Loose Lips, the monthly current events literary thing hosted by the inestimable Tod Caviness, Teege Braune, Michael Cuglietta, Leigh Fields, Dianne Turgeon Richardson, and moi,… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #215: The Last Witch Hunter
The Curator of Schlock #215 by Jeff Shuster The Last Witch Hunter Time to even the playing field. We’re down two-for-two when it comes to witches with our last two movies. It’s time we started fighting back. And who better to do this than the Yul Brynner of our day, Vin Diesel? Maybe you’ve heard of him. He’s just… Continue reading
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Lost Chords and Serenades Divine #6: John Maus: Screen Memories
Lost Chords and Serenades Divine #6 by Stephen McClurg John Maus: Screen Memories (2017) The less music is a language sui generis to them, the more does it become established as such a receptacle. The autonomy of music is replaced by a mere socio-psychological function. Music today is largely a social cement. […] Individuals of… Continue reading
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Episode 300: A Craft Discussion of Three Uses of the Knife, with Vanessa Blakeslee!
Episode 300 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 David Mamet’s Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama. We manage not to kill one another. TEXTS DISCUSSED Episode 300 of The Drunken… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #214: The Love Witch
The Curator of Schlock #214 by Jeff Shuster The Love Witch Be careful what you guzzle. Looks like the SyFy Channel will be airing a new show about the—wait a minute! When did it become SyFy? I thought it was the Sci-Fi Channel. I guess I didn’t get that memo. But why change the spelling? I’m… Continue reading
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Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #5: Hellraisers
Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #5 by Stephen McClurg Hellraisers: A Complete Visual History of Metal Mayhem (2017) Fists are in the air, banging everywhere! Thrashing to the sound, Face melting down! It’s time to fight for metal tonight! Bangers take your stand and obey… our metal command! —Exodus, “Metal Command” The coffee table books… Continue reading
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