Agitator

patreon.com/agitator -> Where Blue Collar Working-Class Writers Who Love Miike, Anime, and Their Families, and Gangsta Rap Share the Sauce While Whipping It Up. Subscription options from free to $10/month. 

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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Jack Mason is the host of The Perfume Nationalist, a continuing radio soap opera in which art and culture, high and low, are discussed through the historical lens of fragrance.

On this episode, we discuss embracing fragrance as an art form and consciously engaging with scent. We also talk the pitfalls of minimalist literature, which fragrances we're most vibing with now, the importance of being earnest, charging guests to come on your show, masculinity, and being anti-anonymity.

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Discussed: 

Justin and Kelby's experiences and feelings of Brazoria County, Texas; poetry vs prose; "Not Meth"; escaping academia; sports journalism; fatherhood; devil possession and harvesting grave dirt from abandoned church cemeteries; Pokemon rap; the rise and fall of a local metal show promoter; the crossroads of anime and bath salts; the Wayans brothers and rebooting '90s sitcoms; child labor: for or against? 

David Simmons and Kelby Losack are chopping it up about LIVES OF THE MONSTER DOGS by Kirsten Bakis. What separates humans from other animals? What is our purpose here? What is "alternative literature"? You read any good books lately?

All this and more, on this episode of Agitator. patreon.com/agitator

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On book tours, US vs UK publishing, Larry Correia vs The Great Gatsby, editing, bred from experience vs bred from institution, and how to measure artistic value.

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