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Buzzed Books # 53: Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History
Buzzed Books # 53 by Amy Watkins Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History Near the end of my MFA, a new writer friend asked the topic of my critical thesis. I launched into a long and not particularly coherent description of the 20 or so ideas–all inextricably related in my mind–that… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #57: Gnomeo and Juliet (2011)
57. Kelly Asbury’s Gnomeo and Juliet (2011) Nope. John King (Episode, well, all of them) holds a PhD in English from Purdue University, and an MFA from New York University. He has reviewed performances for Shakespeare Bulletin. Continue reading
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Episode #268: Kathleen Rooney!
Episode 268 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 show, I talk to the poet and novelist Kathleen Rooney about the flaneur as geographic narrator of imaginative space, the aesthetic pleasures of walking, writing about New York City, the value of… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #187: First Blood
The Curator of Schlock #187 by Jeff Shuster First Blood They’re not hunting him. He’s hunting them! Sorry if I freaked out a bit last week. Maybe it’s my delicate sensibilities, but a movie where a ten-year-old boy gets shot and killed because of the decision of some old guys in a board room meeting… Continue reading
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Episode 267: A Discussion of Stanley Elkin’s The Magic Kingdom, with Orlando author Nathan Holic!
Episode 267 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 show, I talk to my friend Nathan Holic, who is an Orlando writer and editor of the 15 Views of Orlando anthology series. While in situ at The Contemporary Resort, we… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #186: Kidnap Syndicate
The Curator of Schlock #186 by Jeff Shuster Kidnap Syndicate And I thought last week’s movie was depressing. I am in a bad way this week. When you start bashing your head into the bathroom mirror and actually grin as the blood trickles from the cuts on your forehead, it may be time to give… Continue reading
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Episode 266: Shasta Grant!
Episode 266 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 show, I talk to fiction writer Shasta Grant, the Kerouac House resident from the spring of 2017, about novel writing, planning and plotting, and finding the life in the words. NOTES… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #185: Shoot First, Die Later
The Curator of Schlock #185 by Jeff Shuster Shoot First, Die Later Crime doesn’t pay! I’ve been criticized over the fact that I choose too many violent pictures for this blog. Hey, I don’t choose violent movies. Violent movies choose me. That being said, I’m willing to switch things up for one night. How about… Continue reading
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Pensive Prowler #8: Alienating the Alien
Pensive Prowler #8 by Dmetri Kakmi Alienating the Alien Let’s not mistake this for a review of Ridley Scott’s Alien Covenant. It’s more of a free-wheeling jazz improvisation on what went through my benumbed brain as I watched the vaudevillian pantomime. It’s also full of spoilers. So I recommend you read it and save your… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespearean Film #56: The Merry Wives of Windsor (1982)
56. David Jones’s The Merry Wives of Windsor (1982) My sweet readers, I have broken a promise in watching a BBC Complete Shakespeare film. I well know that fine actors were unable to rescue such productions, but I was tempted by my desire to see more Falstaff, and in particular my desire to see the great… Continue reading
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