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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #311: The Detective Eats His Own Tail
I’ve read enough Grant Morrison comics to know that characters meeting their creators rarely goes well for the character. And while I did touch on the first issue of Peter Milligan, Raül Fernandez, Giada Marchisio, and Jeff Eckleberry’s Profane, the final issue came out not too long—for me at least—ago and the story continues its playing with the… Continue reading
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Video: Daniel Handler Interview
Back on episode 657, John spoke with Daniel Handler at Miami Books Fair 2024. Here is a video of that interview. They also spoke back on episode 625, for which there is only the audio. Continue reading
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The Perfect Life #81
Dear Dr. Perfect, A local funeral home recently ran a promotion in which one could pay for one’s cremation for only $2,000, which I eagerly paid. However, when I showed up for my cremation, those swindlers refused me service. The agent at the Better Business Bureau refused to help me. Why won’t anyone help me?… Continue reading
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Episode 661: Kathy Fish!
In this episode, John interviews the notable flash fiction writer Kathy Fish about the anxious nuances of that medium and genre. Is flash fiction just a very short story, with all the rules of fiction at work? Or is flash fiction a less traditional, immersive fictional happening that takes somewhere between the length of a… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #518: Alligator
Alligator We needed a break while waiting to see if Waldo was going to survive his wounds suffered to him by the Goose Lord and his gang. Luckily, I found an outdoor Italian restaurant that was kangaroo friendly. Edwige, my kangaroo companion from my misadventures in North America, had eggplant parmesan. The Revenging Manta, the… Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia #113: Sepia Living
Sublime eclectic mayhem. That’s been my playlist project and musical life, one that begins with The Muppet Movie soundtrack and later involves performing hymns, death metal, surf, and bluegrass. I’ve played in theaters, tents, and basements, for multi-stage festivals and squirrel rodeos. I’ve written and recorded music for The Drunken Odyssey. Sublime eclectic mayhem. A… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #310: Never Blunders
Last year, I wrote about the first issue of Juni Ba, Chris O’Halloran, and Aditya Bidikar’s The Boy Wonder. This was a first issue that brought us back into the perspective of Damian Wayne and his first bit of time as Robin. While things didn’t go well for him, they were going even less well for the child… Continue reading
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Video: Laura Van Den Berg & Kent Wascom’s Florida Novels
In LAURA VAN DEN BERG’s State of Paradise: A Novel, a ghostwriter for a famous thriller author is living in her mother’s small-town Florida home, tracking ominous and eerie changes. Contending with family secrets, spotty memories of her troubled youth, a burgeoning cult in the living room, and her suddenly missing sister, she begins to… Continue reading
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Episode 660: A Conversation about John D. MacDonald
In this episode, John discusses the career of crime novelist John D. MacDonald (1916-1986) in light of a new posthumous short story, “The Accomplice.” In this interview, John speaks with with Andrew Gulli, editor of The Strand Magazine about the rigors and ethos of editing and publishing and MacDonald’s son and literary executor Maynard about… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #517: Creepshow
By the time we made it to the hospital, Waldo was a deathly white. Albert Simmons, the accountant for the Goose Lord, agreed to stay with Waldo as he was the most presentable among us and he owed me for facilitating the eBay auction of my Beanie Baby collection. I didn’t express this at the… Continue reading
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