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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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Episode 299: Laleh Khadivi!
Episode 299 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 Laleh Khadivi about empathy, anticipating the future, the snarl of time management, challenging oneself as a writer as a form of motivation, the absolute transformation… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #213: The Witch
The Curator of Schlock #213 by Jeff Shuster The Witch: A New England Folktale Suffer the children! Looks like there’s a new TV show in the works. It’s called Metropolis. It’s a series about the city of Metropolis from the Superman comics, but will focus on what the city was like before Superman arrived. Ummmmm…We… Continue reading
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Episode 298: A Night of Protest Poetry!
Episode 298 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On January 19th, 2018, Dianne Turgeon Richardson hosted an evening of protest poetry at Milk Bar in Orlando, Florida! The readers included on this recording are Talor Carr, Rachel Fox, Lana Ghannam, Drew Weinbrenner, John… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #212: The Invitation
The Curator of Schlock #212 by Jeff Shuster The Invitation RSVP: No! In lieu of a proper review this week, The Museum of Schlock will provide some advice on when to leave a dinner party early. Of course, your humble curator tends to get kicked out of dinner parties regularly, due to arguing over the… Continue reading
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Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #4: Fever Ray’s Plunge
Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #4 by Stephen McClurg Fever Ray: Plunge (2017) “Seeing these exhibitions I’ve longed to laugh, with the rest, but that strange imitation was impossible. Taking a penknife with a sharp-edged blade, I slit the flesh at the points joining the lips. For an instant I believed my aim was achieved.… Continue reading
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Pensive Prowler #15: Craft Your World with Words
Pensive Prowler #15 by Dmetri Kakmi Craft Your World with Words “Craft your world with words.” I’m captivated by this sentence on the cover of a writing program. There’s no end to the implications, permutations and possibilities in that short construct. And because I’m interested in origins, the beginning place of things, I think of… Continue reading
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Episode 297: Paul Muldoon & Patricia Smith!
Episode 297 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 poets Paul Muldoon and Patricia Smith! Texts Discussed NOTES Please subscribe to my youtube channel, and leave a review of the show on iTunes. Episode 297 of… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #211: The Lazarus Effect
The Curator of Schlock #211 by Jeff Shuster The Lazarus Effect Olivia Wilde goes wild. Live in the now! That’s this year’s motto here at The Museum of Schlock. The Disappointments Room made me realize that schlock isn’t something that exists in the past, but in the present! I think I will spend the rest… Continue reading
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