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Shakespearing #42: New York Classical Theatre’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespearing #42 by Chuck Cannini New York Classical Theatre’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Central Park) Central Park West’s entrance at 103rd Street welcomed all beneath the gentle glimmer of lampposts as green as the surrounding undergrowth, tree leaves, and shrubs. Manhattan’s brick-walled apartments and rumbling cars ceased to exist. This transition from a city to… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #30: The Merchant of Venice (2004)
#30. Michael Radford’s The Merchant of Venice (2004) In the 1970s, Pacino could do little wrong, even when chewing up the scenery in a paint-by-numbers message film like And Justice for All. Film culture had changed by the 1990s, however. His triumph in Scent of a Woman was to offer an apologetic corrective to a… Continue reading
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Episode 211: Hunter S. Thompson Roundtable
Episode 211 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, we have a roundtable discussion of Hunter S. Thompson. The participants included Geoff Benge, Frank Messina, Josh Dull, Shawn McKee, and Dianne Turgeon Richardson. TEXTS DISCUSSED Episode 211 of The Drunken… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #133: Nude for Satan
The Curator of Schlock #133 by Jeff Shuster Nude for Satan (This movie makes less sense than Lost Highway.) So I watched Olympus Has Fallen last night. That’s the one where Gerard Butler saves the President of the United States from North Korean terrorists. I like that movie. Butler kills the terrorists, saves the United… Continue reading
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McMillan’s Codex #43: Doom
McMillan’s Codex #43 by C.T. McMillan Doom (2016) “Pure” and “shooter” are the only words you need when describing this game. From top to bottom, back to front, every conceivable inch is dedicated to making Doom (2016) the most genuine shooter experience I have ever played. The game is a classic, reminiscent of an age… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #41: English Kills
Buzzed Books #41 by Amy Watkins Monica Wendel’s English Kills Monica Wendel’s chapbook, English Kills (winner of the 2015 Coal Hill Review Chapbook Prize) elegantly meditates upon the themes of birth, language, history, and survival. The speaker of these poems is a teacher contemplating becoming a mother, but the book doesn’t slap you in the face… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #29: Richard III (1995)
#29. Richard Loncraine’s Richard III (1995) In Looking for Richard, Al Pacino seemed flummoxed by the possibility of coming to a basic understanding of Shakespeare, using the relatively obscure Richard III as his point of entry into the bard’s oeuvre. In a conspiracy of timing, Pacino must have been working on Looking for Richard around… Continue reading
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Episode #210: Ron Cooper!
Episode 210 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 interview fiction writer and philosopher Ron Cooper, plus I chat with actor Jeremy Palko, who many of you might recognize as Andy from season 6 of The Walking Dead. TEXTS DISCUSSED… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #132: Daughters of Satan
The Curator of Schlock #132 by Jeff Shuster Daughters of Satan Satan, leave our daughters alone! Just leave them alone! Not for nothing, but when my Blu-ray player did the whole Grace Notes thing for my Brotherhood of Satan DVD, it read the disc as The Essential Bugs Bunny Volume 1. I guess that’s… Continue reading
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21st Century Brontë #22: Let’s Talk Fanfiction!
21st Century Brontë #22 by Brontë Bettencourt Let’s Talk Fanfiction For many years I revered Anne Rice. I read The Vampire Chronicles in the moments of my life when I understood what it was like to be the “other”, harboring crippling fear of mortality. When I learned that Rice forbade fanfiction of her work, I… Continue reading
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