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Talking Terrifier, Terrifier 2, The Substance, construction, making money off writing, labels and genres, doing the Trump weave, indie publishing insider secrets, Logan Berry's design-heavy books and theatrical plays, and more.

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Keeping film brain out of literature. Anti-adaptation. Not all content is art. How to stop the Joker. ODDITY. PULSE. Books about cultivation and dragons. Update/teaser on publishing Adam Lehrer's next novel. What makes great art. Shop talk. Fences and parking lots. Who will save you from drowning?

The whitest Agitators you know (JDO and Eddy Rathke) bring you this episode in Kelby's absence. Talking: the pros and cons of ****, Tsutomu Nihei's Tower Dungeon, the Chinese genres Wuxia and Xianxia, Wuxiaworld, a reminder to leave the writing community, book clubs with HVAC techs, cultivation novels, what non-writers are looking for from writing, and more.

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Kelby and JDO discuss Takashi Miike's Lumberjack the Monster, Jeremy Saulnier's Rebel Ridge, and Tim Burton's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice + the return of oil paintings as cover art, masculine rites of passage, grifters vs doers, being red-pilled vs just being normal, assassination attempts, and plenty of craft, marketing, and publishing talk.

Troy James Weaver is the author of Witchita Stories, Temporal, Visions, Marigold, and Selected Stories. He lives in Wichita, Kansas with his wife and dogs.

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Kevin Kautzman is a playwright living in St. Paul, Minnesota. His award-winning plays have appeared around the UK and US and are available in print at Broadway Play Publishing. His dark social media comedy MODERATION was adapted for an online release and can be found at moderationplay.com. A past fellow of the Michener Center for Writers and the Playwrights’ Center, he is a co-founder of Bad Mouth Theatre Company.

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Brad Kelly is a writer from Detroit, Michigan. In addition to AoD, he has recently published HOUSE OF SLEEP, a work of literary psy-fi, and is currently developing a novel entitled THAT WHICH IS WITHIN and an experimental text investigating the Tarot card-by-card. He is a former Michener Fellow and has been widely published in literary magazines.

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TICKETS ON SALE NOW FOR MODERATION: A new play by Kevin Kautzman about content moderators losing their minds at work. October 3-13 at The Hive - 677 Hamline Ave North, St. Paul, MN 55104. Tickets HERE: https://moderationplay.com/

LIVE PODCAST October 26 -The Uncanny Death of Harry Houdini. WHERE: Planet Ant / Black Box / Rear Entrance - 2357 Caniff Hamtramck, MI 48212. Tickets HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/live-podcast-art-of-darkness-the-uncanny-death-of-harry-houdini-tickets-960876897667

Noah Rymer is the author of the upcoming Denouement (Anxiety Press) and editor-in-chief of Pere Ube. On this episode, we discuss organic vs curated diversity, constructive criticism, the Muse, using music to write atmosphere, and more.

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