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Heroes Never Rust #77: “Down” Time
Heroes Never Rust #77 by Sean Ironman “Down” Time The war in Europe winds down. Germans surrender. U.S. soldiers wait on the decision of whether they are heading home or heading to the war in the Pacific. Sergeant Brewer should be happy. He survived. As a soldier in the Hundred and First Airborne Division, he… Continue reading
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Shakespearing #26: All’s Well That Ends Well
Shakespearing #26 by David Foley All’s Well That Ends Well In the Riverside chronology, All’s Well That Ends Well sits uneasily between Troilus and Cressida and Measure for Measure. More problematic than even those plays, there’s nevertheless something chrysalis-like about All’s Well, as if something were stickily emerging, wings still wrinkled and folded. One thing… Continue reading
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Episode 135: A Craft Discussion About James Wood’s How Fiction Works, with Vanessa Blakeslee!
Episode 135 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 about James Wood’s How Fiction Works with Vanessa Blakeslee, Plus Amy Penne writes about how David Foster Wallace’s Consider the Lobster and Other Essays changed her life. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES On Tuesday,… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #73: Scanners 3
The Curator of Schlock #73 by Jeff Shuster Scanners III: The Takeover Everybody wants to rule the world, but only Liliana Komorowska deserves to! If Scanners 3: The Takeover isn’t schlock then I don’t know what schlock is. I know what you want to know. Does this movie feature exploding heads? Yes, it does, but… Continue reading
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The Lists #15: The Worst of the ’80s
The Lists #14 by Scott Hoffman The Worst of the ’80s “Kyrie Eleison” – Mr. Mister This bloated, pretentious mess reaches for great inspirational heights and falls far, far short of its goal. “Kyrie Eleison” is Greek for “Lord, have mercy.” Mr. Mister chose the phrase supposedly because they liked the way the words sounded.… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #76: Dodgin’ D-Day
Heroes Never Rust #76 by Sean Ironman Dodgin’ D-Day Garth Ennis’s and John Higgins’s War Story: D-Day Dodgers follows Second Lieutenant Ross, a British soldier joining up with B Company in Italy. The Western Front has begun with Normandy and the Allied Forces are gaining ground in France. The Russians are driving Germans back to… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #18: Betty Page, Queen of Curves
Buzzed Books #18 by Madison Strake Bernath Bettie Page: Queen of Curves Do not mistake Bettie Page: Queen of Curves by Petra Mason as simply a coffee table book of sexy photographs. Not that these aren’t seductive pictures—there’s plenty of gorgeous skin lining the pages. Queen of Curves is about more than just the model,… Continue reading
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Shakespearing #25: Troilus and Cressida
Shakespearing #25 by David Foley Troilus and Cressida You have to let critics do what they do, and one who reviewed my play Cressida Among the Greeks said that, although the press release cited both Chaucer and Shakespeare, I was clearly following Shakespeare much more closely. I found the claim bewildering at the time, and… Continue reading
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Episode 134: Stuart Dybek and Denise Duhamel!
Episode 134 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 share another Miami BookFair International interview, this one with fiction writer and poet Stuart Dybek, and I also talk to the poet Denise Duhamel, plus Jim Ross writes about how… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #72: Scanners II
The Curator of Schlock #72 by Jeff Shuster Scanners II: The New Order (Same as the Old Order) I have it on good authority that David Cronenberg refuses to give his blessing on a Scanners remake. This leads me to the inevitable conclusion that he must have approved the Scanners sequels. Oh yeah. I bet… Continue reading
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