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Shakespearing #1: An Overabundance, Pleasures
Shakespearing #1 by David Foley A few weeks ago—late night, between books—I pulled the collected plays of Christopher Marlowe off my shelf and started reading Edward II. I hadn’t read it, or any Marlowe, since high school, and what struck me most about it now was how un-Shakespearean it is. Having first encountered anti-Shakespearean theories… Continue reading
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Episode 105: Alden Jones!
Episode 105 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 talk to fiction writer and memoirist-extraordinaire Alden Jones, plus Peter Demarco writes about discovering Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES According to The Guardian, Salman Rushdie has won the… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #44: The Funhouse
The Curator of Schlock #44 by Jeff Shuster The Funhouse (or, Don’t Go to the Carnival, Kids) 1981’s The Funhouse from director Tobe Hooper (of Texas Chainsaw Massacre fame) has one of the most terrifying opening credit sequences I’ve ever seen in a movie. That’s because it’s clip after clip of audio-animatronic dolls! I don’t like puppets… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #46: The Turning Point
Heroes Never Rust #46 by Sean Ironman The Turning Point The fourth issue of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is the most action-packed one yet. The league attempts to retrieve the cavorite from “The Doctor” and stop the devious foreigner from building his airships. We finally see Mr. Hyde cut loose and rampage his way… Continue reading
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Episode 104: Bloomsday 2014!
Episode 104 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this bonus episode, I guide listeners through a lovely tour of Ulysses on today, which is Bloomsday. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES Check out Black 47’s music here, or wherever you buy music. “I Got Laid… Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #46: My Old Man
In Boozo Veritas #46 by Teege Braune My Old Man (for Stuart Braune) “I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.” -Umberto Eco “A man knows when he is growing old because he begins… Continue reading
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Episode 103: Alan Michael Parker!
Episode 103 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 talk to the fiction writer and poet Alan Michael Parker, Plus Andrew Gretes offers his “Ode to Zorba.” TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Davis Sedaris talked about the Amazon/Hachette battle to Parnassus… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #43: Friday the 13th, Part VII: The New Blood
The Curator of Schlock #43 by Jeff Shuster Friday the 13th, Part VII: The New Blood–Don’t go to Crystal Lake! I know there are some of you out there who think there’s no rhyme or reason to what I decide to curate on any particular week. For instance, you might think that I realized at the last… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #45: Undercover
Heroes Never Rust #45 by Sean Ironman Undercover Now that the team has come together, the mission can begin. As Captain Nemo puts it, “An enemy of Britain has stolen its one sample of cavorite, the key to the mastery of the air.” The more I re-read The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, the more I… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #12: Iris Jamahl Dunkle’s Gold Passage
Buzzed Books #12 by Nicole Callihan Iris Jamahl Dunkle’s Gold Passage In the title poem of Iris Jamahl Dunkle’s Gold Passage, she writes, “What illumines our path forward is what once consumed us,” and the book itself seems born from this exchange of consumption and enlightenment. Steeped in music and place, Dunkle’s poems orient me:… Continue reading
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