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  • Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #178: The Rumiko World

    Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #178 by Drew Barth The Rumiko World I remember watching the first episode of Rumiko Takahashi’s Inuyasha when I was eleven years old and being smitten with the world she had created. The blending of myth and history layered just below the modern world made my imagination spark.… Continue reading

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  • The Perfect Life #42

    The Perfect Life #42 by Dr. Perfect Dear Dr. Perfect, My foot fetish is in constant battle with my foul odor revulsion. How to reconcile the two? Scentcerely, Janice ————————– Hello, Janice, I’ll set aside my pastrami on rye to address your concerns. Fetishes are precarious pastimes, filled with strange and new wonders. Some people… Continue reading

  • Episode 526: Rochelle Hurt!

    Episode 526 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I talk to poet Rochelle Hurt about her latest book, The J Girls: A Reality Show. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES TDO listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to… Continue reading

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  • The Curator of Schlock #384: Night Train Murders

    The Curator of Schlock #384 by Jeff Shuster Night Train Murders Yes, revenge is a good thing.  I was getting manhandled by a gang of hooligans in the husk of a building that was once The Museum of Schlock. Their leader was a punk with a mohawk who claimed to be the new curator of… Continue reading

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  • Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #177: Tied Together

    Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #177 by Drew Barth Tied Together  wrote last week about the Jurassic League and the ways in which those designs and characters reminded me of toy tie-ins from the 90s. And that just led me to the Harley Quinn: The Animated Series: The Eat, Bang! Kill Tour and… Continue reading

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  • The Perfect Life #41

    The Perfect Life #41 by Dr. Perfect Dr. Perfect, I’m upset that none of the “Missed Connections” on Craigslist are about me. What’s the point of smiling at every person I see and nod seductively if they’re not even going to reach out? Signed, Lonely Online ————————–  Dear Lonely Online, I scour Craigslist too, for… Continue reading

  • Episode 525: Brynne Rebele-Henry!

    Episode 525 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I talk to Brynne Rebele-Henry about divinity, sexuality, and historical imagination in her extraordinary latest collection of verse, Prelude. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES TDO listeners can get 20% of a… Continue reading

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  • The Curator of Schlock #383: CQ

    The Curator of Schlock #383 by Jeff Shuster CQ Roman Coppola’s love letter to cinema. “Unhand me,” I said as two hooligans grabbed my arms and forced me to my knees. “I’m the curator of this museum.” The punk with the mohawk leaped down off the severed concrete head of Charles Bronson, the centerpiece of… Continue reading

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  • Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #176: With Jurassic Chomping Action!

    Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #176 by Drew Barth With Jurassic Chomping Action! Comics are, above all, a medium for telling stories. And sometimes the best kinds of stories are catharsis—we need to feel a release from what we’ve become accustomed to. Jurassic League is one such kind of catharsis. Taking familiar characters… Continue reading

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  • Episode 524: Yeoh Jo-Ann!

    Episode 524 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I talk to Yeoh Jo-Ann, the spring 2022 resident of the Kerouac Project of Orlando, about her novel, Impractical Uses of Cake, proper otter behavior, the role of agency in… Continue reading

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