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Heroes Never Rust #92: Coincidence
Heroes Never Rust #92 by Sean Ironman Watchmen: Coincidence Eventually, a story must come together—well, at least a good one. All the subplots and character interactions must mean something. Many writers seem to try to make their story “realistic.” More like life. But, life is meaningless, and stories help us make sense of the randomness… Continue reading
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Episode 150: Melissa Crandall!
Episode 150 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 fantasy, science fiction, and nonfiction writer Melissa Crandall, plus Síofra Shaman Skye shares a letter she wrote to J.D. Salinger. TEXTS DISCUSSED Check out Melissa Crandall’s blog, The… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #86: Howard the Duck
The Curator of Schlock #86 by Jeff Shuster Okay. I guess I have to ramble on a bit about Howard the Duck. I always think of Blade as the first film adaptation of a Marvel comic, but as the film’s narrator at the start of the movie proclaims, “In the beginning there was Howard the… Continue reading
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Aesthetic Drift #1: A Voice Frozen
Aesthetic Drift #1 by Kseniya Melnik A Voice Frozen My hometown, Magadan, in the northeast of Russia is a port city isolated from the rest of the continent and it is the emotional heart of my first collection of stories, the center of gravity toward which each of the characters is pulled. As I was… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #91: Sentimentality
Heroes Never Rust #91 by Sean Ironman Watchmen: Sentimentality Watchmen presents a bleak world. Superheroes are no the superheroes many people are familiar with. The world, or at least a great deal of the world, seems to hate the vigilantes. But, there is one real moment of, not happiness, but positivity. At the end of… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #26: Attempting Normal
Buzzed Books #26 by John King Attempting Normal I am an obsessive fan of things. Most culture feels blank to me, irrelevant, whether high-, low-, or middle-browed. But when I engage, some lifelong fixation is usually triggered. To be a fan of Tom Waits, for example, is not merely to have a preference, but rather to… Continue reading
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Shakespearing #32.2: Even More Thoughts About Coriolanus
Shakespearing #32.2 by John King Even More Thoughts About Coriolanus Last week, I discussed how Coriolanus eludes me because I don’t feel any empathy for its characters, the minor character Menenius excepted. Considering that my chief axiom about Shakespeare is that he is best known in performance rather than on the page, I thought it… Continue reading
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Episode 149: Chelsey Clammer!
Episode 149 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 memoirist, Chelsey Clammer, plus Susan Brennan shares her poetry sequence, Chromoluminarism, based on the last days of the pointillist, George Seraut. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES If you live… Continue reading
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