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Episode 153: Leonard Kinsey!
Episode 153 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 interview the iconoclastic Disney author Leonard Kinsey, plus Terry Barr writes about leaning not to teach The Catcher in the Rye. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTE The music accompanying Terry Barr’s… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #88: Mildred Pierce
The Curator of Schlock #88 by Jeff Shuster Mildred Pierce, or All’s Well That Ends Well? I covered a movie about Joan Crawford last week, so I thought it would fitting to cover a movie actually starring Joan Crawford this week. So I’ll review the one she won Best Actress for, Mildred Pierce. I have to admit,… Continue reading
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Aesthetic Drift #2: On Motherhood: Rethinking Hurston’s Most Famous Novel
Aesthetic Drift #2 by Rochelle Spencer On Motherhood: Rethinking Hurston’s Most Famous Novel Though I hadn’t read Their Eyes Were Watching God in more than fifteen years, when I returned to graduate school a couple of years ago to complete a doctorate, I was assigned Zora Neale Hurston’s famous novel three separate times within seven… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #93: Master Plans
Heroes Never Rust #93 by Sean Ironman Watchmen: Master Plans So we have come to this. The penultimate issue of Watchmen. The issue when the villain is truly revealed and his master plan is set. Although a few pages are given over to some of the residents of New York City, most of the issue… Continue reading
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Episode 152: Kattenstoet! A Roundtable Discussion of Cats
Episode 152 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, we have a roundtable discussion of Kattenstoet, the Belgian cat holiday that may or may not be a retroactive apology for medieval atrocities against felines. Present for this discussion were… Continue reading
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Shakespearing #33: Timon of Athens
Shakespearing #33 by David Foley Timon of Athens Timon of Athens is supposed to be one of the plays Shakespeare collaborated on. The speculation is that Thomas Middleton (Women Beware Women) wrote about forty percent of it. To make matters worse, according to James Shapiro, “individual scenes [are] divided between the two, suggesting that the… Continue reading
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Episode 151: Greg Proops
Episode 151 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 comedian, podcaster, and now, author, Greg Proops, plus Rochelle Spencer writes about the liberating politics of Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Read… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #87: Mommy Dearest
The Curator of Schlock #87 by Jeff Shuster Mommy Dearest One of the problems with having older sisters is that they would occasionally get control of the cable box, and thus I was subjected to Mommie Dearest on more than one occasion. I had never even heard of Joan Crawford. I was a kid. The… Continue reading
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The Lists #19: Noah’s Log
The Lists #19 by Brett Pribble Noah’s Log Day 1 It’s kind of sad to watch everyone from my village drown, but it’s sweet to be able to say I told you so. Day 17 Still annoyed that I couldn’t get the unicorns on the arc in time. Day 35 Sometimes I wonder why my… Continue reading
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