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The Lists #35: The Top 10 Films of 2017
The Lists #35 by Brett Pribble The Top 10 Films of 2017 Lists that rank the best films of the year are inherently subjective and often lead to argument. But hearing other people’s opinions can also lead us to check out things we might not have or think about a film in a way we… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #58: Square Inch Hours
Buzzed Books #58 by Amy Watkins Review of Sherod Santos’s Square Inch Hours I read Sherod Santos’ collection of prose poems, Square Inch Hours (Norton, 2017) during a rainy cold snap—what amounts to bleak midwinter for a Floridian—and the poems were perfect for the weather. Not perfect like a warm cup of cocoa to comfort me… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #71: Henry VI Parts 2 & 3 (2016)
71. Dominic Cooke’s Henry VI Parts 2 & 3 (2016) Season 2, episode 1 of “The Hollow Crown” ends somewhere in the middle of Henry VI, Part 2. Our callow King Henry VI was expecting to oversee the trial of Humphrey, Lord Protector of England, only to learn that Humphrey was—ummm—assassinated in the Tower. In his… Continue reading
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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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