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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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McClurg’s Musicalia #112: Green Berets and Ham
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 #309: The Big Picture
The image of New York City is something ingrained in the DNA of comics. DC’s initial office on Broadway, the main hub of activity in the Marvel universe, and countless other creators can all trace their origins to the city. And in that urbanist center, stories swell. The throngs of people, the iconic skyscrapers and… Continue reading
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Video: Robert Pinsky in Conversation with Campbell McGrath
Former U.S. Poet Laureate ROBERT PINSKY reads from his latest book and discusses the role of poetry in the community. In Proverbs of Limbo, he mines and maps limbal regions both demographic and personal – clashing ways of understanding, personal history and world history, health and illness, freedom and compulsion, intimacy and community, personality and… Continue reading
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101 Horror Movie Nights
with Dmetri Kakmi I Married a Monster From Outer Space USA, 1958 Director: Gene Fowler Jnr Cast: Tom Tryon, Gloria Talbott, Ty Hardin, Peter Baldwin I hear you, Gloria! You marry hunky Tom Tryon and you wake up one morning going, ‘Oy, vey, what have I done to deserve this? He doesn’t sleep with me,… Continue reading
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Episode 659: Duy Đoàn!
In this week’s show, John talks to poet Duy Đoàn about his latest collection, Zombie Vomit Mad Libs; the poetic provocations of horror films like Let the Right One In, A Girl Walks Home Alone in the Night, and A Chinese Ghost Story; and experimenting with erase and fragmentation. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES There is a… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #516: Rolling Vengeance
The broccoli-headed boy was about to dial out on his cellular phone, no doubt calling the cops because Edwige, my kangaroo companion from my misadventures in North America, trashed his Subaru Outback. Before he could dial the first digit, a shuriken split his iPhone in two. That flying star came from the Revenging Manta, the… Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia #111: And the Earth–they tell me
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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