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Aesthetic Drift #17: A Truckload of Corpses, or Violence’s Meaning in Narrative
Aesthetic Drift #17 by Brontë Bettencourt A Truckload of Corpses, or Violence’s Meaning in Narrative I am haunted by Tokyo Ghoul. The anime’s pacing was slow and dull and the finale was a hot mess, but one scene left me intrigued and horrified. Kaneki Ken has a good heart but no backbone. He is a recently… Continue reading
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Lost Chords and Serenades Divine #3: Sparks: Hippopotamus (2017)
Lost Chords and Serenades Divine #3 by Stephen McClurg Sparks: Hippopotamus (2017) The writers and composers work the street. Bach’s new score is crumpled in his pocket, Dante sways his ass-cheeks to the beat. ~ from “Hollywood Elegies” by Bertolt Brecht (trans. Adam Kirsch) Sparks has maintained their standards and strangeness throughout more than a… Continue reading
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Episode 296: Denise Duhamel!
Episode 296 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 Denise Duhamel about the role of politics and play in poetry. BOOKS DISCUSSED NOTES Here in Orlando, the City Beautiful, come out and hear some… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #210: The Disappointments Room
The Curator of Schlock #210 by Jeff Shuster The Disappointments Room Stick this one back in the oven. It ain’t done yet. It’s a new year and a new month and I have to give you, my demanding public, more musings on movies you’ve never heard of. So I checked out a DVD from the… Continue reading
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21st Century Brontë #32: The First Low-Residency Semester
21st Century Brontë #32 by Brontë Bettencourt The First Low-Residency Semester Hello, Readers! Last May I finished my first semester at Hamline University. Every month, I submitted a packet of my work to the amazingly talented Phyllis Root. My packets consisted of twenty pages of new material, twenty pages of edited material, ten annotated bibliographies… Continue reading
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Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #2: Junk Genius, Ghost of Electricity (1999)
Lost Chords and Serenades Divine #2 by Stephen McClurg Junk Genius, Ghost of Electricity, (1999) Lights flicker from the opposite loft In this room the heat pipes just cough The country music station plays soft But there’s nothing, really nothing to turn off … The ghost of ’lectricity howls in the bones of her face ~… Continue reading
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Episode 295: Charles Simic & Richard Blanco!
Episode 295 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 Charles Simic about James Tate, Kansas surrealism, humor in poetry, and embracing the unconscious, plus I talk to Richard Blanco about the accidents that turn us into… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #69: Twelfth Night (1996)
69. Trevor Nunn’s Twelfth Night (1996) Songs in Shakespeare can be a tricky thing since his texts share lyrics, but not melodies. The normal theatrical approach to these songs is to keep them brief, and not to commit to melodies that are catchy or especially even musical, which kind of defeats the presumed delightful fucking… Continue reading
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Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #1: Khun Narin’s Electric Phin Band: II (2016)
Lost Chords and Serenades Divine #1 by Stephen Mcclurg Khun Narin’s Electric Phin Band: II (2016) Music has all encompassing merits, its worth is of a city, it can be as useful as you wish… —from Phra Aphai Manee, by Sunthorn Phu Certain sounds are familiar, but as a whole, this music has a welcome strangeness. Melodies like surf ballads or… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #68: Hamlet (1948)
68. Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet (1948) I first saw Olivier’s Hamlet sometime in 1988 or 1989 in my English class as a senior in high school. The film was Shakespearean kryptonite for teenagers: a shaky black and white print of a study of melancholia expressed with exaggerated erudition. The very notion that I should flatter such work with… Continue reading
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