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Episode 132: Joanna Rakoff and Tony Hoagland!
Episode 132 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 novelist and memoirsit Joanna Rakoff, and then talk once again with the poet Tony Hoagland, plus Brittany McIntyre writes bravely about how a book I never expected to… Continue reading
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Shakespearing #23.1: Four Observations About Hamlet
Shakespearing #23.1 by John King Four Observations About Hamlet Wow, a whole five weeks have passed since I borrowed David Foley’s Shakespearing. I promised I wouldn’t do this again. But then, again: Hamlet. Hamlet is my play. Don’t even try to argue that with me. Observation #1 C. S. Lewis is not the only twentieth-century… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #70: The Muppet Christmas Carol (Redux)
The Curator of Schlock #70 by Jeff Shuster The Muppet Christmas Carol (Redux) Yeah, I’m revisiting the movie! Okay. I’ll admit I can be a bit of an ogre when it comes to my own personal taste. We all have our Christmas Carols. I grew up with Scrooge the Musical, the one with Albert Finney.… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #73: Adjusting to the Story’s Needs
Heroes Never Rust #73 by Sean Ironman Adjusting to the Story’s Needs In a graduate-level fiction workshop a couple of years ago, a student used footnotes in a few places in a manuscript. The story was somewhere around fifteen pages, and footnotes were used three or four times, mostly toward the beginning of the piece.… Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #71: MEMO from the In Boozo Veritas Offices
In Boozo Veritas #71 by Teege Braune MEMO from the In Boozo Veritas Offices To: John King, Host of The Drunken Odyssey From: Teege Braune, Author of In Boozo Veritas Subject: The Greatest Film Every Made or An Average Tuesday for John King? Date: December 22, 2014 You’ve called me out! It’s true that I… Continue reading
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Episode 131: A Christmas Radio Play
Episode 131 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. This week’s episode got a bit out of hand. Jared Silvia tells me that, for legal reasons, this needs to be called a radio play. Anyway, I talk to Santa, have an interview you… Continue reading
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Shakespearing #23: Hamlet
Shakespearing #23 by David Foley Hamlet For a certain kind of theatre/English lit nerd, Hamlet was our Catcher in the Rye. Hamlet not Holden was the disaffected hero who awakened our sense that we were surrounded by phonies in a messed-up world. I remember being puzzled to learn that scholars argued back and forth about… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #69: The Muppet Christmas Carol
The Curator of Schlock #69 by Jeffrey Shuster The Muppet Christmas Carol Michael Caine Returns to The Museum of Schlock We’ve gone a whole year without a Michael Caine movie present in The Museum of Schlock. He plays Ebenezer Scrooge in 1992’s The Muppet Christmas Carol from director Brian Henson. So yeah, it’s Muppets and Michael Caine… Continue reading
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The Lists #12: Literature Questions for Further Discussion (e.e. cummings “anyone lived in a pretty how town”)
The Lists #12 by John King Literature Questions for Further Discussion (e.e. cummings’ “anyone lived in a pretty how town”) If e.e. cummings’s “anyone lived in a pretty how town” is an allegory for obscure figures from The Holy Bible, who would anyone and who would noone be? Recite the poem naked. Doesn’t that sound… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #72: Fattening the Story
Heroes Never Rust #72 by Sean Ironman Fattening the Story When I took Introduction to Creative Writing when I was an undergraduate in college, I was taught that everything in a story had to be there for a reason. I had to interrogate each word, and every one had to characterize and move the plot… Continue reading
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