Hosted by Charlie Bennett and Christian Sager.
This is a repost of a 2016 episode.
In our 2016 holiday episode, we looked at the forgotten Christmas Eve tradition of telling ghost stories. M.R. James' work from over a hundred years ago best represents this Victorian trend, so in his honor we brought horror to academia and safe spaces.
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Additional Resources:
- How Did Antiquarians Become Action Story Heroes?
- Ghost stories: why the Victorians were so spookily good at them
- Christmas Ghost Stories: The Ghost of Christmas Past Goes Further Back Than You Might Realize
- M. R. James' Ghost Stories Work Eerily Well in This Graphic Fiction Form
- Telling ghost stories is a lost tradition on Christmas Eve
This 2013 novel is a sequel to The Shining. With guest Emily Lewis, we consider how King continues his own redemption arc through these stories about alcoholism and parenting.
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Additional Resources:
- Stephen King in Person The author speaks, receives Mason Award at Fall for the Book.
- Stephen King, "The Shining" and the crapper
- Stephen King Q&A: The author explores the origins of The Shining and its sequel Doctor Sleep
- Kathryn Schulz on Doctor Sleep, Stephen King’s The Shining Sequel
- What Stephen King Isn’t
- Shine On
This 2018 comic series by Mark Russell and Mike Feehan reimagines the cartoon character as a gay playwright at odds with 1950s American politics. We examine Russell's writing goals while considering a critical debate about the book: is it formulaic award-bait or character-driven commentary on our present circumstances?
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Additional Resources:
- ‘The Snagglepuss Chronicles’ is the best thing you’ll read all year. Seriously.
- EXIT STAGE LEFT: THE SNAGGLEPUSS CHRONICLES Takes Home 2019 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book
- Snagglepuss: Exit Stage Left Is a Brilliant Exploration of McCarthyism and the Lavender Scare
- The Snagglepuss Chronicles is the first great comic book of 2018
- DC Reviving Hanna-Barbera's 'Snagglepuss' as Gay Playwright
- Snagglepuss, LGBT hero: Legendary Hanna-Barbera character reborn in new comic series
- Review in progress: Exit Stage Left — The Snagglepuss Chronicles
- Mark Morales Demystifies the Art of Inking Comics
- “Exit, Stage Left” | Books of 2019, #4
- Queer Visibility: What SNAGGLEPUSS Could Teach Us About Resistance in 2018
Thank you to our Co-producer patron Kevin Wetter for selecting this week's topic!
This 1994 indie rock album means a lot to its fans as proof positive that you can survive a romantic breakup. We look at the small business that drove its creation and try to put ourselves in the shoes of the listeners who cherish it.
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- Superchunk release acoustic version of ‘Foolish’ w/ Allison Crutchfield, Owen Pallett, more
- Brian Paulson Studio aesthetics
- Rank Your Records: Laura Ballance Ruthlessly Rates Superchunk’s Ten Albums
- Dusting ‘Em Off: Superchunk – Foolish
- CHUNKY STYLE
- The Guide to Getting into Superchunk