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On Top of It #17: A Lesson in Humility and Tone
On Top of It #17 by Lisa Martens A Lesson in Humility and Tone: Talia Jane This weekend, the Internet caught fire with Talia Jane, a Yelp customer support representative who wrote a public, scathing letter to the CEO of her company and, of course, was fired soon after. I agree with a higher minimum… Continue reading
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Episode 193: Mary Gaitskill!
Episode 193 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I interview fiction writer Mary Gaitskill, and share her reading from Miami Book Fair International, plus Beverly Army Williams and I discuss Mary Gaitskill’s new novel, The Mare. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES… Continue reading
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21st Century Brontë #10: Notes on the Commonality of the Depressed Writer
21st Century Brontë #10 by Brontë Bettencourt Notes on the Commonality of the Depressed Writer When I was younger I idolized Anne Rice. All of her long, winding, ornate descriptions of her elegant vampires and their plights over humanity, immortality, and the ruthless effects of time on all things but them had me yearning to… Continue reading
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McMillan’s Codex #26: Bioshock Infinite
McMillan’s Codex 26 By C.T. McMillan Bioshock Infinite Audiences seem split between having better story over gameplay, or vice versa. Some do not like Metal Gear Solid for being all story and some do not like Call of Duty for being all gameplay. In the case of Bioshock Infinite, there is only one way you… Continue reading
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On Top of It #16: Letting Go of Holden
On Top of It #16 by Lisa Martens Letting Go of Holden The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody’d move. You could go there a hundred thousand times, and that Eskimo would still be just finished catching those two fish, the birds would still be… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #17: Love’s Labour’s Lost (2000)
#17: Love’s Labour’s Lost (2000) Oh fuck. Fuck. I mean: shit. Don’t see this movie. Don’t see this movie unless you are totally high. Okay, let’s consider what Branagh tried to do with Love’s Labour’s Lost. This adaptation presented the Shakespeare comedy as a Hollywood musical from the late 1930s, in which Shakespeare’s language is interrupted… Continue reading
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Episode 192: Erotic Poetry Night IV
Episode 192 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. This week features our 4th annual Erotic Poetry Night, featuring Jesse Bradley, Teege Braune, Stephanie Rizzo, Danielle Kessinger, Amy Watkins, David James Poissant, Ashley Inguanta, Sarah Viren, and (ahem) John King. NOTES Get tickets for… Continue reading
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21st Century Brontë #9: The Dance Macabre
21st Century Brontë #9 by Brontë Bettencourt The Dance Macabre Last fall, I couldn’t step into the University of Central Florida’s Anime club without stumbling into an Undertale conversation. This unassuming 16-bit indie game (8-bit in combat) took the gaming community by storm in under a month, earning numerous awards proclaiming it the best game… Continue reading
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McMillan’s Codex 25: Deus Ex: Human Revolution
McMillan’s Codex 25 By CT McMillan Deus Ex: Human Revolution In my last entry, I brought up the subject of level design in Dishonored and how it is adapted to accommodate any play style. Loud or quite, there were many avenues of approach one could traverse depending on how they want to play or what… Continue reading
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