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Heroes Never Rust #94: Endings
Heroes Never Rust #94 by Sean Ironman Watchmen: Endings Endings are difficult. Do you leave the story open-ended? Do you lead into another story? Do you connect the story back to the beginning? Do you have an epilogue? There are a lot of questions and no answers. Ambiguous endings work from time to time, but so… Continue reading
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Shakespearing #34: Pericles
Shakespearing #34 by David Foley Pericles Last week I mentioned a tug-of-war I’d felt in college between the Shakespeare-as-literature and the Shakespeare-as-drama camps, but now I wonder if I just don’t get academics in general. In his introduction to the Pelican edition of Pericles, Stephen Orgel of Stanford calls the play “a masterpiece—which is to… Continue reading
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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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