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Episode 171: A Craft Discussion About Borges’s This Craft of Verse, with Vanessa Blakeslee!
Episode 171 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 about Jorge Luis Borges’s This Craft of Verse with Vanessa Blakeslee, plus Jared Silvia performs Peter Seger’s “Hobo’s Lullaby.” TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Check out the great perks for The… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #104: The Substitute 2
The Curator of Schlock #104 by Jeff Shuster The Substitute 2: School’s Out (There is no substitute for Tom Berenger.) Okay, I think I’m going to have to temporarily change my title of Curator of Schlock to Curator of Made for Video Movies. Do you think The Substitute 2: School’s Out made it to theaters?… Continue reading
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McMillan’s Codex #4: Wolfenstein (New Order)
McMillan’s Codex #4 by C.T. McMillan Wolfenstein: New Order The alternate history genre works well in videogames if done right. The Fallout series is probably the best example with its 1950s post-apocalyptic, atom-punk aesthetic. Though the world may be well constructed and full of depth, players can only suspend their disbelief for so long before… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #5: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1990)
#5: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1990) Tom Stoppard is a great playwright, a British postmodernist who well knows how literary meaning is culturally constructed. His play and film Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (1990) are wonderful accomplishments that construe the comedy team of Hamlet’s bumbling college friends as the hapless heroes of the story, as if… Continue reading
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Episode 170: Danita Berg!
Episode 170 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 prose writer and educator, Danita Berg, plus Catherine Carson reads her poem, “Reverse Evolution, or Sex in the Environment.” TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES If you live in Orlando, check… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #103: The Substitute
The Curator of Schlock #103 by Jeff Shuster The Substitute Tom Berenger kicks some class! Haha! Okay. Week two of Back to School Month here at the Museum of Schlock where we’ve been discussing the problem of juvenile delinquency in American High Schools so naturally we’d have to work up to 1996’s The Substitute from… Continue reading
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McMillan’s Codex #3: Metal Gear Solid V (The Phantom Pain)
McMillan’s Codex #3 by C.T. McMillan Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain From set pieces to story, videogames are making a transition into movies. The self-proclaimed auteur David Cage combines the mediums into titles that are lost in translation and suffer an identity crisis. It is obvious he would like to work in film,… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #4: Hamlet (1990)
#4: Hamlet (1990) Franco Zeffirelli is a creature of opera, and was friends with Maria Callas. He directed the version of La Traviata I attended at the Met. Yet when he directs films of Shakespeare, he avoids the bombast and hyperbole of the operatic mode altogether. His Hamlet is earthy. The problem with Hamlet, as… Continue reading
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Episode 169: J.R. Miller!
Episode 169 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 fiction writer J. R. Miller, plus C.T. McMillan writes about the unsettling moral complexities of Punisher Max. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Check out the great perks for The Drunken… Continue reading
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