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Buzzed Books #37: Application for Release from the Dream
Buzzed Books #37 by Amy Watkins Tony Hoagland’s Application for Release from the Dream I enjoyed the second half of Tony Hoagland’s fifth poetry collection, Application for Release from the Dream (Graywolf Press, 2015), so much that I almost felt guilty for how critical I was of the first half. Many of the poems in… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #16: As You Like It (2006)
#16. As You Like It (2006) Some enthusiastic newbies to Shakespeare crave an authentically Shakespearean experience, something satisfyingly old-looking, true to history, and they will primly turn their nose up at productions that have the gall to change the setting of a play. This is a truly silly position. Oh, there isn’t anything terribly wrong… Continue reading
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Episode 191: Erin Belieu!
Episode 191 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 poet Erin Belieu, plus I share the Miami Book Fair International reading she participated in with Carl Phillips, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, and Kevin Young. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Check… Continue reading
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Dispatches from the Funkstown Clarion Herald Tribune Mirror: International Version #2
Dispatches from the Funkstown Clarion Herald Tribune Mirror: International Version #2 by Simon Bluespire My distant cousin Clement Hooker, once a townsperson of Funkstown, Maryland, is currently stationed in a secret location in Finland doing genetic experiments. Once a proud portion of the fourth estate, The Funkstown Mirror has merged with several other newspapers during the last hundred thirteen years,… Continue reading
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21st Century Brontë #8: Notes on Aesthetic Afterlives
21st Century Brontë #8 by Brontë Bettencourt Notes on Aesthetic Afterlives It has been a couple weeks since we lost Alan Rickman. My Facebook feed was a steady stream of pictures consisting of flowers being left outside of Professor Snape’s classroom in Hogwarts castle, silhouettes of wizards pointing their wands skyward. His stoic visage coupled with… Continue reading
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McMillan’s Codex #24: Dishonored
McMillan’s Codex 24 By C.T. McMillan Dishonored If you watch enough entertainment, you realize all stories are the same. Godfather is Game of Thrones; Conan is Django Unchained; and Goodfellas is Scarface. It gets to a point you can predict how a story will turn out without seeing it. Blake Snyder, the avatar of banality,… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #36: When You Cross That Line
Buzzed Books #36 by Chris Blanchard When You Cross That Line Sam Slaughter’s chapbook, When You Cross That Line, was published as an award for the reading series There Will Be Words based here in Orlando. At a mere 41 pages, this little chapbook can fit right in your back pocket. The cover is minimal,… Continue reading
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On Top of It #15: Freelance Growing Pains
On Top of It #15 by Lisa Martens Freelance Growing Pains I now have two jobs, neither of which really have to do with creative writing—I do customer support for a dating site, and manage reservations for a belly dancing school. I’ve seen lots of dick pics and shimmies. While in grad school, I attempted… Continue reading
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