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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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Shakespearing #17.2: Another Interlude, This Time Out of Sequence
Shakespearing #17.2: Orlando Shakes’ Merry Wives by John King Note: Once more I am commandeering David Foley’s blog in which he offers his impressions while reading Shakespeare’s plays chronologically. This interruption happens to be a review of a current production of one of Shakespeare’s comedic masterpieces. Orlando Shakespeare Theater is among the best companies interpreting Shakespeare… Continue reading
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Episode 138: Darcey Steinke!
Episode 138 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 novelist Darcey Steinke, plus I share a spoken word poem by Wilson Santos, and a brief interview about his crowdfunding project for literacy in the Dominican Republic.… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #75: Above the Law
The Curator of Schlock #75 by Jeff Shuster Above the Law Yuen Biao is ABOVE THE LAW! It’s high time we had another vigilante month. Why? Because I like seeing low-life scumballs get what’s coming to them, and so do you! We’re going to do something a little different. You guessed right, it’s Vigilante Month:… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #79: Skip the Obvious
Heroes Never Rust #79 by Sean Ironman Skip the Obvious Two weeks ago, I met with an undergraduate student to discuss her thesis, a collection of essays. One of my suggestions for her essay about the sickness and eventual death of her grandfather was to skip the paragraph about how upset she was over his… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #20: The Great Florida Craft Beer Guide
Buzzed Books #20 by Sam Slaughter The Great Florida Craft Beer Guide Writing a craft beer guidebook in a state like Florida—where a new brewery seems to announce plans to open every day—is tricky. Author Mark Denote had to know that the moment this book went to print, The Great Florida Craft Beer Guide would… Continue reading
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Shakespearing #28: Othello
Shakespearing #28 by David Foley Othello Othello is about as streamlined and relentless a play as Shakespeare ever wrote. It’s as if he’s inventing the form of the psychological thriller—the claustrophobic dread, the implacable villain, even the false hope of a reprieve dangled before us. And it’s a tragedy, too, of course, but it’s a… Continue reading
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Episode 137: Annemarie Ní Churreáin!
Episode 137 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 Annemarie Ní Churreáin about the Irish language, poetry, and the allure of nature, plus Will Garland reads his essay, The Art of Telling a Story About Southern Family… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #74: Zapped!
The Curator of Schlock #74 by Jeff Shuster Zapped! Placing an exclamation point in your title really makes it stand out! Your Curator of Schlock has long had the wish for a Chucky vs. Leprechaun movie. Another dream of mine is to one day see a Scanners vs. Highlanders movie. Oooh. Maybe the movie could… Continue reading
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