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In Boozo Veritas #43: Instead of Bowing Out Gracefully
In Boozo Veritas #43 by Teege Braune Instead of Bowing Out Gracefully Like Napoleon at Waterloo; Like Truman according to The Chicago Tribune on November 3, 1948; Like Ahab lashed to the whale, waving the Pequod to its doom before being dragged to the bottom of the ocean; Like Dr. Duke “alone in Las Vegas, completely… Continue reading
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Episode 100: Mailbag Episode 5 (The Dream Child)
Episode 100 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 Rose Tran shares a memoir piece about her unpleasantly Proustian relationship to Florida weather. TEXTS DISCUSSED Mary Gordon’s essay… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #40: Bloodsport
The Curator of Schlock #40 by Jeffrey Shuster Bloodsport (Van Damme Hits Below the Belt!) I have to warn you. 1988’s Bloodsport from director Newt Arnold is not for the faint of heart. This movie is based off real life events surrounding the Kumite, an underground martial arts tournament located in the dingy back alleys of Hong… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #42: Aftermath
Heroes Never Rust #42 by Sean Ironman Aftermath There’s only so long a person can hide from their failures. Even though the X-Men put an end to Quentin Quire’s rebellion, failures (both personal and professional) are the focus of each story in New X-Men #138. The issue begins with the X-Men flawlessly taking down the… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #9: Remember Me Like This
Buzzed Books #9 by Jordan Magill Brett Anthony Johnston’s Remember Me Like This Too often novels read as though authors imagine complex topics demand florid, even labyrinthine, sentences. Perhaps they see Proust’s magisterial–and mammoth!–examination of sense and memory, In Search of Lost Time, as their touchstone. Yet one mark of a gifted storyteller can also beto… Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #42: Move It Or Booze It
In Boozo Veritas #42 by Teege Braune Move It Or Booze It A fresh start, new digs, a clean slate, a hook to hang your hat on. Home is where the heart is, and sometimes a person comes to that time in her life, for any myriad of reasons, in which it becomes necessary or advantageous… Continue reading
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Episode 99: Kseniya Melnik!
Episode 99 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 Kseniya Melnik, Plus Matt Berman writes about Jean Craighead George’s My Side of the Mountain. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Chipotle cups will become a venue for literature curated by Jonathon… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #39: Van Damme and Trejo, Together Again for the First Time
The Curator of Schlock #39 by Jeffrey Shuster Desert Heat: Van Damme and Trejo, Together Again for the First Time In Desert Heat from director John G. Avildsen, Jean-Claude Van Damme plays Eddie Lomax, a motorcycle enthusiast who has given up on life. He drives his Indian out to middle of the desert with a bottle… Continue reading
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Loading the Canon #24: Molotov Bouquet
Loading the Canon #24 by Helena-Anne Hittel Molotov Bouquet What do you do when you think the Tate Gallery in London needs a little extra “something” on the wall? If you’re Banksy, you take that something and hang that “something” up there yourself. It will only remain there for an hour before the gallery gets… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #41: To What End?
Heroes Never Rust #41 by Sean Ironman To What End? New X-Men #137 shows Quentin Quire’s riot, his rebellion against Xavier’s ideals, a rebellion meant to change the school, if not the world. The riot was Quentin standing up against humanity, against mutants who stand by while humans murder mutants in the streets. Three issues… Continue reading
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