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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #246: A Hot Mug of Ghosts
I now grind my own coffee beans. If this indicates that I’m getting older, I suppose I embrace that. While some of us grind beans every morning, some do it in the deep night to keep sleep—and monsters—at bay. Or rather, one person does that while we follow a life of continual caffeine and ghost… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #99: B.H. Fairchild’s An Ordinary Life
Being a first-generation middle-class poet isn’t easy. I sit at a desk and peck at a laptop all day. Not poems; emails to colleagues, research summaries, proposed company policies. The Florida sun bakes the streets outside and I think back to the rural Midwest, the place I was apparently born, but don’t remember. I struggle… Continue reading
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#602: Walter Mosley!
On today’s show, John talks to best-selling author Walter Mosley about his process, especially when exploring unsettling, psychological science fiction in his new novel, Touched. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES Check out Miami Book Fair 2023, November 12-19, with the street fair occurring November 18 and 19. Check out my friend Jamie Hecker‘s latest book, Disney Legends: Makers… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #245: Please Sleep
Some months ago, I looked at the first issue of Briar and delved into how we keep coming back to fairy tales. As I mentioned earlier, a distinct panic throbbed through Briar‘s pages with the sudden change of the world from the perspective of Briar Rose, and with the finale of its first arc Christopher Cantwell, Germán… Continue reading
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#601: Stephanie Land!
On today’s show, John talks to best-selling author Stephanie Land about her newest book, Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Check out Miami Book Fair 2023, November 12-19, with the street fair occurring November 18 and 19. If you are an amazon customer, one way to support this show is… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #437: Intruder
I pinned the punk resembling Waldo from Where’s Waldo? down. I hoped to extract the whereabouts of the Revenging Manta, the ninja vigilante of downtown Orlando. The punk snorted and pursed his lip. Suddenly a stream of spit doused my face. I was about to smack across his cheeks when green spray burned my eyes. The punk… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #244: Flash Fractal
Wally West was the first Flash I can remember. But then most of my early comics knowledge came from the Justice League cartoon. In that, Wally was really the only Flash. Jay Gerrick was more of a special guest for a Crisis on Two Earths send-up and none of the kids were around yet. Barry Allen was maybe mentioned… Continue reading
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#600: Tom Lucas
On today’s show, John talks to Tom Lucas about his brand new Lovecraftian YA-ish novel, Research Randy & the The Mystery of Grandma’s Half-Eaten Pie of Despair, told by an unreliable narrator about a doomed town. NOTES Check out Miami Book Fair 2023, November 12-19, with the street fair occurring November 18 and 19. If… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #243: The Fear Between Your Heart
Liminality is a popular trope in modern horror. Look anywhere online and you’ll find pictures of abandoned malls, highway rest stops after midnight, or the current liminal du jour, the Backrooms. But what all of these have in common is their fleeting uncanniness—that these are meant to be areas we walk through without a second… Continue reading
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The Perfect Life #63
Dear Dr. Perfect, Why do old people sit a McDonald’s for so long? Are they spying on me? Are they fantasizing about my sex life? What should I do about this emergency? A burger eater who wants some peace. Dear loyal McPerson, As someone who occasionally slums in fast-fooderies, I’ll attempt some insight. The grand… Continue reading
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