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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #41: Omkara [Othello] (2006)
41. Omkara [Othello] (2006) With the exception of The Tempest, the plots of Shakespeare’s plays are not actually original to him. What is original is the exceptional psychological depth that he granted the characters in these plays, and the exquisite language with which he chiseled their psychologies into existence. So when artists adapt Shakespeare onto film,… Continue reading
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Episode 231: Craig Pittman!
Episode 231 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 to the journalist and nonfiction writer, Craig Pittman. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES On November 8th, come hear me, Gelndaliz Camacho, Rachel Kolman, and Whitney Hamrick read at There Will Be Words at The Gallery… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #160: Shock Waves
The Curator of Schlock #160 by Jeff Shuster Shock Waves Nazi zombies are the Taliban of the zombie world. I think I promised you eager beavers a story last week, a twisted tale to keep awake well past the witching hour. Okay. So there was this pigman who lived in Angola, New York. Well, he… Continue reading
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Episode 229: The 6th Annual Flash Fiction Spooktacular!
Episode 229 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 return to Jesse Bradley’s Halloween installment of his prose reading series, There Will Be Words. Plus a final performance from The Terrible Mr. Sundrop. Episode 229 of The Drunken Odyssey,… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #159: It! The Terror from Beyond Space
The Curator of Schlock #159 by Jeff Shuster It! The Terror from Beyond Space Huh? What’s beyond space? Your curator had a nightmare the other night. In my dream, there was a raccoon tapping at my bedroom window. I tried shooing it away, but the raccoon got real angry, scratching the glass with its claws.… Continue reading
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McMillan’s Codex #57: Berserk Musou (Trailer Analysis)
McMillan’s Codex 57 By C.T. McMillan Berserk Musou (Trailer Analysis) One of the great things about this blog is getting to talk about whatever I want. My pieces on Dawn of War were excuses to talk about Warhammer 40k. When I wanted to write about cyber punk, I reviewed cyber punk games. Now I am… Continue reading
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Episode 228: Readings from HP Lovecraft
Episode 228 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 present a quartet of readings from HP Lovecraft: “The Beast in the Cave,” “The Tree,” “Beyond the Wall of Sleep,” and “From Beyond.” Our readers are Chris Booth, Elise… Continue reading
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21st Century Brontë #28: The Shelf, and Finishing the Draft
21st Century Brontë #28 by Brontë Bettencourt The Shelf, and Finishing the Draft I finally started writing the first book to a series that I’ve been imagining for years, and it’s awful. By awful, I mean the writing process. I feel like I’m slamming my head against the paper until my blood somehow congeals into… Continue reading
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