Hosted by Charlie Bennett and Christian Sager.
This 2013 novel generated a cantankerous debate in the world of literary criticism over the quality of fiction and how we define it. We look at Tartt's writing process and themes to try to understand whether this book deserved the praise and awards it received.
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Additional Resources:
- It’s Tartt—But Is It Art?
- The Goldfinch is a bad movie because it is based on a deeply flawed book
- Donna Tartt on The Goldfinch, Inspiration, and the Perils of Literary Fame
- Why the backlash against Donna Tartt's 'The Goldfinch' was so extreme (2014 Year in Review)
- I HEART DONNA TARTT: 10 FACTS ABOUT MYSTERIOUS AUTHOR OF ‘THE GOLDFINCH’
- Pulitzer Prize–Winner Donna Tartt on Writing The Goldfinch
- Donna Tartt shares The Goldfinch’s secret history
- Donna Tartt's multicultural fantasy: How "The Goldfinch" got away with its disgraceful racial politics
- https://newrepublic.com/article/156282/not-write-book-review
This 1969 double-album has been described as both “unlistenable” and “one of the greatest albums of all time.” We discuss its volatile production while trying to understand its composition and how it influenced another fifty years of weird music.
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- Some notes came from secondary sources listing Mike Barnes’ ‘Captain Beefheart’ and Bill Harkleroad’s ‘Lunar Notes: Zoot Horn Rollo’s Captain Beefheart Experience’
- Burundo Drumbi! - John French's Series of Q&As, 2000/1
- Captain Beefheart, a.k.a. Don Van Vliet, dies at 69
- AllMusic Review by Steve Huey
- The Case for Why Captain Beefheart’s Awful Sounding Album, Trout Mask Replica, Is a True Masterpiece
- Why this awful-sounding album is a masterpiece
- The Dust Blows Forward: 'Trout Mask Replica' at 50
- Why Captain Beefheart’s ‘Trout Mask Replica’ Still Sounds Like Tomorrow
- Frownland by Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band: Analysis
This 1999 cannibal-horror-comedy film went through three directors in a troubled production. We discussed how it successfully critiques American consumption and Manifest Destiny despite its financial failure.
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Additional Resources:
- ''Creative differences'' shake up Hollywood
- Film: They all but ate me alive!
- FANGO Flashback: “RAVENOUS”
- Robert Carlyle Interview
- ANTONIA BIRD'S RAVENOUS IS A DARK CANNIBAL TALE - BUT WITH JOKES!
- To Serve Man: Why ‘Ravenous’ Is the Greatest Cannibal Western Ever
- Women in Film: The Tonal Balancing Act of Antonia Bird’s RAVENOUS
- Why You Should Chew On ‘Ravenous’ (1999)
- Forgotten Flick Ravenous Is the Best-Ever Manifest Destiny Cannibal Comedy
- Ravenous - 20th Anniversary
- DiMarco, D. (2011). Going Wendigo: The Emergence of the Iconic Monster in Margaret Atwood’s “Oryx and Crake” and Antonia Bird’s “Ravenous.” College Literature, 38(4), 134–155.
This comic book series by Neal Adams is a strange combination of talent and narcissism, along with the realization that its lead character and its creator aren't as in control as they want to be. We discuss gun violence, Expanding Earth theory, and generational conflict to try to make sense of this one-of-a-kind experience.
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Additional Resources:
- Deconstructing the Complete and Utter Insanity of ‘Batman: Odyssey’
- Batman Odyssey
- Ten Questions To Answer About Batman: Odyssey by Neal Adams
- INTERVIEW: NEAL ADAMS ON BATMAN: ODYSSEY
- WC10: Neal Adams Talks "Batman: Odyssey"
- Neal Adams ('Batman: Odyssey')
- NEAL ADAMS INTERVIEWS: Adams Defends ‘Batman: Odyssey’
- Petit, Z. (2014). Stubborn. Aggressive. Positive. Print, 68(5), 18–21.
- Breaking down the complete and utter madness of Batman vs. Ra’s Al Ghul
- Neal Adams: Ultraviolence
- Did Artist Neal Adams Make an Ass Out of Wonder Woman—and Himself?
This 1996 film is a purported biopic about a famous painter by another famous painter, Julian Schnabel. We ask whether the narrative this movie presents is an inaccurate portrayal of its subject because it exploits him or because the director is commenting on his own place within the world of fine art.
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Additional Resources:
- Jim Jarmusch Explains Why He Refuses To Watch Julian Schanbel’s ‘Basquiat’
- Basquiat: Julian Schnabel's Radiant Child
- Julian Schnabel Asks Why White Filmmakers Shouldn't Tell a Story About a Person of Color
- “Basquiat” and the Art of the Biopic
- Basquiat
- SCHNABEL AND HIS DOUBLES by Charlie Finch
- "Basquiat' trivializes talented painter's life
- http://alienatedinvancouver.blogspot.com/2009/07/on-filmwork-of-john-lurie-interview.html
- “Time to Develop”