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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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The Curator of Schlock #85: Blade
The Curator of Schlock #85 by Jeff Shuster Blade All vampires must die! Batman & Robin killed the superhero movie. No one really mourned. We had all given up hope that Hollywood would ever get the genre right. I didn’t care. I still had the new Superman: The Animated Series to keep me entertained. Warner… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #90: Skip the Door
Heroes Never Rust #90 by Sean Ironman Watchmen: When Not to Show Watchmen, for the most part, is devoid of action. There are blips on the radar, but the comic is very much a bunch of talking heads. But the eighth issue is the most action packed. We get Rorschach taking on Big Figure and… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #25: Across a Green Ocean
Buzzed Books #25 by Leslie Salas Across a Green Ocean Across a Green Ocean, by Wendy Lee, presents the intertwined stories of an immigrant mother and her two children living in the suburbs of New York City. When Ling can’t get a hold of her son, Michael, she sends his older sister, Emily, to check… Continue reading
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Shakespearing 32.1: More thoughts on Coriolanus
Shakespearing 32.1 by John King More thoughts on Coriolanus I confess: I don’t get Coriolanus. Not on a gut level, anyway. Perhaps one has to be a soldier to see into the hero’s spirit properly. A soldier before the modern epoch. Certainly before Ulysses S. Grant. The idea that one’s identity can be granted stature… Continue reading
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Episode 148: Jennifer Hoppe-House!
Episode 148 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 playwright Jennifer Hoppe-House, whose debut play is experiencing its world premiere at Orlando Shakespeare Theater, plus Lori D’Angelo writes about discovering The Scarlet Letter as a teenager,… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #84: Batman & Robin
The Curator of Schlock #84 by Jeff Shuster Batman & Robin When you’re young and foolish, you do foolish things. Like going to see Batman & Robin because you’ve seen every Batman movie in the theater including the animated Batman: Mask of the Phantasm and excluding that 1960s Batman movie since you technically hadn’t been… Continue reading
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