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Episode 160: Ciara Shuttleworth!
Episode 160 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 poet Ciara Shuttleworth, plus Don Royster writes about how Isaac Asimov helped him to appreciate Shakespeare. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES To read about Ciara’s post-residency road-tripping with Flat… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #95: American Ninja 2
The Curator of Schlock #95 by Jeff Shuster American Ninja 2: The Confrontation I take it the first American Ninja movie didn’t have a confrontation. Happy 4th of July to my legion of readers! We here at The Museum of Schlock love the red, white, and blue as much as Paul Kersey’s Wildey Magnum so we’re… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #100: Adequacy is Okay
Heroes Never Rust #100 by Sean Ironman 1985: Adequacy is Okay At the end of issue one of Marvel’s 1985, Toby, the protagonist, runs into the Hulk one night in the woods. The second issue picks up from that point, with the Hulk asking Toby if he’s seen the Juggernaut, who is apparently causing trouble.… Continue reading
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Shakespearing #37.1: More on The Tempest
Shakespearing #37.1 by John King The Tempest I adore The Tempest. David Foley was entirely right last week: the drama of this play is peculiarly light and strangely weighted. The wizard Prospero’s grievances seem unfathomable, and his sense of family, of relationships, is both intense, yet distant, pushed through his mind like a vicious abstraction… Continue reading
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Episode 159: Mixtape #4 (Lost in Sinatraland)
Episode 159 of the world’s greatest writing podcast is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I talk to myself and share some music. Musicality affects my writing a lot. Perhaps I cherish sound since I nearly went deaf as a child. It took awhile for Sinatra to enter my imagination, but since… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #94: The Devil’s Rain
The Curator of Schlock #94 by Jeff Shuster The Devil’s Rain Shatner versus Satan? My money’s on Shatner! There are days I really don’t like my job as the Curator of Schlock, days where’s I’d rather just up and quit and raise ferrets for a living. That’s because every so often I run into… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #99: 1985
Heroes Never Rust #99 by Sean Ironman 1985 I grew up reading comics, specifically X-Men comics. At first, my father would come home with a bag full of random comics for me, my brother, and my sister. My siblings lost interest over the years, but my interest grew. As a teenager, I would go weekly… Continue reading
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Shakespearing #37: The Tempest
Shakespearing #37 by David Foley The Tempest Sometimes it takes a production that doesn’t work to make you understand how a play does. As I re-read The Tempest, I wondered guiltily if I’d ever much liked it. Coming after Cymbeline and The Winter’s Tale, it felt tepid. Where was the drama, the deep emotion? The next… Continue reading
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