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Heroes Never Rust #97: How Bad is Bad
Heroes Never Rust #97 by Sean Ironman Terror Inc.: How Bad is Bad The third issue of Terror Inc. focuses on the villains. The main villain is revealed as Talita, a woman Terror loved eight hundred years ago. Her team is called Death’s Reign, a group of South American thugs turned special forces. There seems… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #27: Something Rich and Strange
Buzzed Books #27 by Dianne Turgeon-Richardson Something Rich and Strange This is less of a book review and more of a public service announcement: If you’re not reading Ron Rash, you should be. To put it simply and to risk using an already overused word, he is awesome. If you worry that you’re late to… Continue reading
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Shakespearing #35.1: More Thoughts on Cymbeline
Shakespearing #35.1 by John King More Thoughts on Cymbeline 1. Cymbeline is, admittedly, a strange play, as David Foley explained in its theatrical and historical context last week. Cymbeline is a fairy tale, with comic and tragic turns that has some dead bodies at the end, but ends as a comedy, with some reconciliations and a… Continue reading
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Episode 156: Stacy Barton
Episode 156 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 and poet Stacy Barton, plus Shawn Whittington writes about how The Hobbit changed his life. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES New York Classical Theatre‘s production of The Taming of… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #91: The Devil Within Her
The Curator of Schlock #91 by Jeff Shuster The Devil Within Her, or The Movie Critic who Wants to Claw his Own Eyes Out within Me There’s a rumor going around that your Curator of Schlock went on a megalomaniacal rant after hearing that Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen would not be reprising their role of Michelle… Continue reading
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Aesthetic Drift #3: On the Road, After Living in Jack Kerouac’s House, Part 1
Aesthetic Drift #3 by Ciara Shuttleworth On the Road, After Living in Jack Kerouac’s House, Part 1 I am in Winside, Nebraska, the place my family called home from 1983-1988. I am sitting on a porch owned by family friend Lin Brummel, and her dog, Pickles, is beside me, enjoying the shade but ever-aware of… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #96: Characters Who Cannot Die
Heroes Never Rust #96 by Sean Ironman Terror Inc.: Characters Who Cannot Die At the end of the first issue of Terror Inc., Terror is tricked and defeated. Issue two opens with the bad guys, a shady government group, placing Terror’s body parts in acid, melting him, and flushing the remnants down the toilet. Due… Continue reading
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Shakespearing #35: Cymbeline
Shakespearing #35 by David Foley Cymbeline “Staggeringly, unremittingly, unconscionably absurd,” wrote John Simon. “Reckless,” “a travesty,” “a waste,” said Frank Rich. Joanne Akalaitis’s production of Cymbeline, which I saw at the Public in May 1989, was notoriously excoriated by every critic in the city without exception. I saw it before the reviews came out and… Continue reading
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