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Verisfy #2: Cities & Memory
Versify #2 by Monica Wendel Cities & Memory I write this in the desert, reading Italo Calvino and visiting family. Las Vegas is in a valley, and the heat bakes us like the inside of a pizza oven. We spend the day inside, shades drawn, reading books and watching TV and eating, waiting for it to… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #2: Linking Stories
Buzzed Books #2 by Alise Hamilton Linking Stories Recommendation: I Want to Show You More: Stories by Jamie Quatro Jamie Quatro’s book I Want to Show You More, with its original and eye-catching cover, is a debut full of unique stories and damn good writing. Of the fifteen stories in the collection, seven tackle the same story… Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #2: Don’t Bet on the Muse
In Boozo Veritas #2 by Teege Braune Don’t Bet on the Muse This is a literary anecdote that I hope is true despite everything else I’m going say in this post: I once heard that Charles Bukowski’s nightly routine, after he finished another grueling day at the post-office and had a quick bite at his favorite… Continue reading
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Like a Geek God #1: Pacific Rim and the Ballet of Mayhem
Like a Geek God #1 by Mark Pursell Pacific Rim and the Ballet of Mayhem Mayhem is problematic. In recent years, it seems as if action filmmakers have lost the thread of what makes grand-prix melee both engaging and eye-widening. The fight scenes in the Transformers movies are a dark, disorienting blur of flailing metal. … Continue reading
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Episode 61: Chad Benson, or Quinn W. Shagbark!
Episode 61 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. This week, I interview my friend, the fiction writer Chad Benson, who also happens to be a rock musician called Quinn W. Shagbark, plus Jesse Duthrie talks about John Barth’s The Floating Opera. TEXTS DISCUSSED… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #1: Nightmare City
The Curator of Schlock #1 by Jeffrey Shuster Nightmare City Why should you pop Umberto Lenzi’s Nightmare City into you’re DVD player? It’s called Nightmare City. What makes the city a nightmare city? Zombies. Lots and lots of zombies. Apparently, somewhere in Europe there was a radioactive spill at a nuclear plant. The movie doesn’t specify if it’s… Continue reading
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Loading the Canon #1: Museum Glass
Loading the Canon #1 by Helena-Anne Hittel Museum Glass I don’t like art. I LOVE it. People look at me like I’m crazy when I tell them I go through museums or galleries in hours, maybe even days depending on the exhibit. I read every single label or bit of information presented and try to… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #1: Gambit
Heroes Never Rust #1 by Sean Ironman Gambit The first comic book I remember reading is X-Men (second series) #33 written by Fabian Nicieza with art by Andy Kubert. I was ten years old and had read comics before, but X-Men #33 was the first to have an impact on me, enough of an impact… Continue reading
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Gutter Space #1: Why Focus on Comics-That-Aren’t-Superhero-Comics?
Gutter Space #1 by Leslie Salas Why Focus on Comics-That-Aren’t-Superhero-Comics? Comics as a medium has a richer and more involved history than many people recognize or remember. Comics analyst Douglas Wolk explains in Reading Comics “the argument about the between relationship between painting and poetry, the generic classical terms for image-making and word-assembling, has been… Continue reading
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Versify #1: Brian Turner’s Here, Bullet
Versify #1 by Monica Wendel In Brian Turner’s Here, Bullet (Alice James Books, 2005) some people don’t die, exactly; they are evaporated, or disappear as if they never existed, moving not from living to not-living but from something to nothing “as if even the idea of them were being / destroyed, stripped of form.” For this blog,… Continue reading
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