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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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In Boozo Veritas #41: How To Get My Mom To Gossip And Other Family Secrets
In Boozo Veritas #41 by Teege Braune How To Get My Mom To Gossip And Other Family Secrets for Merla Belle Mothers and sons have, at times, a tenuous relationship. I’m told that for mothers and daughters this is even truer. How many writers have said I can’t publish a word until my mother passes away?… Continue reading
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Episode 98: Kelly Luce!
Episode 98 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 Kelly Luce, Plus Nicole Callihan meditates on motherhood, sustenance, autism, and language in “Notes Toward: Babies, Bananas, Boxes.” TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Nicole Callihan’s “Notes Toward: Babies, Bananas, Boxes” first appeared… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #38: The Order
The Curator of Schlock #38 by Jeffrey Shuster The Order (or, Charlton Heston Gracefully Exits his Career) Guess what? It’s Van Damme month here at The Museum of Schlock. The scuttlebutt around the Internet is that Jean-Claude Van Damme’s career took a nosedive after the poor performance of Street Fighter at the box office back in… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #40: All Will Be Well
Heroes Never Rust #40 by Sean Ironman All Will Be Well The riot portion of the “Riot at Xavier’s” storyline has yet to begin. New X-Men #136 ends with Quentin Quire shouting “Riot!” into a bullhorn on Open Day, a day Xavier invited humans to the school. A sort-of Open House. But, except for the… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #8: Emma Donoghue’s Frog Music
Buzzed Books #8: Emma Donoghue’s Frog Music by Mark Pursell If Emma Donoghue has a byword, it’s “immersion.” The Irish-born author—who first gained international literary attention with her 2000 historical picaresque, Slammerkin—has a knack for building fictional worlds that envelop a reader with the mesmerizing quality of an enchantment. Sights, smells, textures, emotions; blood, dust, lust… Continue reading
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Episode 97: Lu Vickers!
Episode 97 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 historian of Florida attractions Lu Vickers, Plus Joe Marchia writes about Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Check Out our new videos: Check out this indiegogo crowd-sourcing effort… Continue reading
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Loading the Canon #23: The Powers That Be
Loading the Canon #23 by Helena-Anne Hittel The Powers That Be Iconoclastic Chinese artist Ai Weiwei just can’t seem to catch a break this year. Back in February, Miami artist Maximo Caminero smashed one of the vases in Weiwei’s “According to What?” installation at the Perez Art Museum in protest of the lack of local… Continue reading
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