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Shakespearing #29: King Lear
Shakespearing #29 by David Foley King Lear I’ve had a mental block about my Lear posting. I finished reading the play a few weeks ago, wrote two paragraphs, and stalled. It may be because I’ve already written about Lear in this series, or it may be because I began with the claim, “King Lear is… Continue reading
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Episode 140: Marya Hornbacher!
Episode 140 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 and novelist Marya Honrbacher, plus J.J. Anselmi reads his personal essay, “Atrophy,” and I offer a tribute to the late Philip Levine. TEXTS DISCUSSED Read Marya… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #77: Street Law
The Curator of Schlock #77 by Jeff Shuster Street Law Franco Nero is ABOVE THE LAW!!! Okay. Back to Vigilante Month: International Edition. This week our journey around the world brings us to Italy, a country that was plagued with more street crime in the 1970s than New York City, if the cinema has anything… Continue reading
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The Lists #17: Reasons to Watch Fifty Shades of Gray
The Lists #17 by John King Reasons to Watch Fifty Shades of Gray You have a personal grudge against one of the cast members. You like to masturbate to Architectural Digest. You hate women. You really hate women. You are really drunk, and bought a ticket to Selma, but ended up in the wrong theater and couldn’t make your… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #81: Personal Taste, or Bad Craft?
Heroes Never Rust #81 by Sean Ironman Personal Taste, or Bad Craft? If it has been unclear in my last two posts, I’ll come right out and say it here—I dislike Nemesis. I think it represents everything wrong with comics in the last ten years. It’s a comic consisting of shock after shock. So many… Continue reading
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Shakespearing #28.1: Four Observations About Othello
Shakespearing #28.1 by John King Four Observations About Othello 1. In Shakespeare is Hard, But So is Life, the Irish theater critic Fintan O’Toole says, If you look at the character of Othello in isolation, and in particular if you look at him through the notion of the “tragic flaw’, then he is not, for all… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #76: Friday the 13th
The Curator of Schlock #76 by Jeff Shuster Friday the 13th (Yeah, this was inevitable) There was some fine print I neglected to look at when I took this job as Curator of Schlock. Any movie reviewed on Friday the 13th must be a Friday the 13th movie or I will be summarily fired, forced… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #80: Ridiculousness in Fiction
Heroes Never Rust #80 by Sean Ironman Ridiculousness in Fiction As the story speeds along in the second issue of Nemesis, the situations get more and more over the top. That’s not necessarily bad, unless you wanted a different type of story. In the last few decades in comics, there’s been a push toward realism… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #21: The Call
Buzzed Books #21 by Leslie Salas Pat Rushin’s The Call The Call: A Virtual Parable, is the novella that inspired the screenplay for Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem. Both novella and screenplay, penned by Pat Rushin, explore existentialism and causality through the exploits of a certain entity-cruncher who refers to himself in the first-person-plural perspective.… Continue reading
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