• Episode 116: Stephen Corey!

    Episode 116 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 Stephen Corey, Editor-in-Chief of The Georgia Review, Plus August Evans writes about Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Margaret Atwood if the first entrant into the Future Library Project, with… Continue reading

  • Shakespearing #12: King John

    Shakespearing #12 by David Foley King John Poor John. Nobody likes him. In The Lion in Winter, he’s portrayed as a pimply, mouth-breathing lout; he’s the villain to Richard Lionheart’s hero in Ivanhoe; and nobody seems to think much of the play Shakespeare wrote about him. Titus Andronicus gets more love. This is strange, because… Continue reading

  • The Curator of Schlock #55: Lupin the 3rd

    The Curator of Schlock #55 by Jeff Shuster Lupin the 3rd: The Mystery of Mamo Okay, you Japanese animation fans, never let it be said that The Curator of Schlock doesn’t provide his readers with what they want.  First I want to point out that you younglings probably can’t appreciate just how good you have it when… Continue reading

  • Heroes Never Rust #57: Paneling

    Heroes Never Rust #57 by Sean Ironman Paneling Ten years ago, I took a Digital Rhetorics course in college. The professor made it a comics class. We spent the semester studying and making comics. When it came to creating our own comics, we were told to draw a grid of panels on a page and… Continue reading

  • In Boozo Veritas #57: RIP Bar-BQ-Bar

    In Boozo Veritas #57 by Teege Braune RIP Bar-BQ-Bar I was thinking about doing a piece for Labor Day about William Blake’s idea of the creative process as a form of labor embodied by the tension and perfect balance between inspiration personified by Urthona (i.e. the Holy Spirit) and reason personified by Urizen (i.e. Satan) and… Continue reading

  • Shakespearing #11: Richard II

    Shakespearing #11 by David Foley Richard II I tried, as I re-read Richard II, to uncover why the play so fascinated me as a teenager. Some of the first Shakespearean speeches I memorized were from Richard II. With a couple of drinks in me, I can still give a quite moving rendition of the “sad… Continue reading

  • Episode 115: Mailbag 6 (The Sweet Cheat Gone)

    Episode 115 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s show, I answer some mail with my friend, David James Poissant, Plus Clint Peters writes about how reading Montaigne changed his life. NOTES Check out David James Poissant’s wonderful story collection, The Heaven of Animals.… Continue reading

  • The Curator of Schlock #54: The King of Kong

    The King of Kong or A Fistful of Quarters (Ape of the Week: Donkey Kong) I hate it when movies give me two titles to choose from. I hate that kind of nonsense! Just pick one! I know. I know. The King of Kong or A Fistful of Quarters is a documentary, so I should forgive such excesses. In fact, this… Continue reading

  • Heroes Never Rust #56: Showing the Details and More Details and More Details

    Heroes Never Rust #56 by Sean Ironman Showing the Details and More Details and More Details Billy Butcher has been telling Hughie for three issues that superheroes are dicks. We’ve gotten a little bit of a taste for that a couple of times. For example, in issue one, Hughie’s girlfriend was killed when a superhero… Continue reading

  • In Boozo Veritas # 56: The Endless Summer

    In Boozo Veritas # 56 by Teege Braune The Endless Summer Not even the day after Christmas was as disappointing as the last day of summer vacation. It doesn’t matter on what day the Autumnal Equinox falls, all kids know that summertime is over the day the new school year begins. Never mind that much of… Continue reading

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