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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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Episode 158: Julian Chambliss
Episode 158 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 historian Julian Chambliss, plus Dmetri Kakmi writes about how reading Paul Bowles’s The Sheltering Sky taught him how to write about psycho-geographic dis-associations. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Check… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #93: Race with the Devil
The Curator of Schlock #93 by Jeff Shuster Race with the Devil Fonda and Oates. Need I say more? I guess I do need to say more, otherwise I’ll have a seven-word review. 1975’s Race with the Devil from director Jack Skarrett was a nice surprise. The Internet dubs this movie as an “occult thriller” which is what… Continue reading
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Aesthetic Drift #4: On the Road, After Living in Jack Kerouac’s House, Part 2
Aesthetic Drift #4 by Ciara Shuttleworth On the Road, After Living in Jack Kerouac’s House, Part 2 When I left off with Part 1 of this blog, I was in Winside, Nebraska, where I lived for a large chunk of my childhood. After sending Part 1 off to John King, I spent one more day in… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #98: The Graphic Nature of Storytelling
Heroes Never Rust #98 by Sean Ironman Terror Inc.: The Graphic Nature of Storytelling Terror Inc. is part of Marvel’s MAX imprint—a collection of comics geared toward an adult audience. The imprint was launched in 2001 and is known for featuring explicit content: sex, violence, profanity. Stan Lee, who co-created the Marvel universe, has spoken… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #28: Making Sense of Marshall Ledbetter
Buzzed Books by Rachel Kolman Making Sense of Marshall Ledbetter Around 4 A.M. on a June night in 1991, a 22-year-old man—drunk, stoned—stumbled up to Florida’s capitol building. He wrapped a whiskey bottle in a towel and threw it at a glass door, which broke. No alarm sounded. Nothing. Wouldn’t you want to wander around inside,… Continue reading
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Shakespearing #36: The Winter’s Tale
Shakespearing #36 by David Foley The Winter’s Tale The second most extraordinary moment in The Winter’s Tale is Act V, Scene ii, the penultimate scene of the play. We’ve just been brought to a place of high, incipient drama. The King of Bohemia has arrived offstage, exposing Florizel’s plan to marry a shepherd’s daughter against… Continue reading
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