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Gregory Maguire enters back into The Ivory Tower Boiler Room to discuss his witches both in the Land of Oz and in the Land of Maracoor. He reveals what it was like creating his "Wicked" series and having to rely on L. Frank Baum's creation of Oz and all of the film adaptations of The Wizard of Oz. And in a certain way, the freedom he felt when he created the brand new land of Maracoor for his "Another Day" series. His new novel, The Oracle of Maracoor is the second volume in the series, and he explains why the ancient idea of oracles and mysticism was such a compelling idea for his new novel. Get ready for a fantastical journey throughout Oz, Maracoor, and even ancient Greece. And then, Gregory leaves us on the edge of our seats when he discusses the new Wicked movie musical news...and go to our Patreon to hear that exclusive news! 

Listen to Gregory's first time entering ITBR to discuss all things Wicked, the novel and the musical: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2ZsDADFQeY3Ne0ml9rtZpP?si=8b48956aa4234215

Get your hands on The Oracle of Maracoor here: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-oracle-of-maracoor-gregory-maguire

Listen to Debra Wise perform The Oracle of Maracoor on Audible (it's such a good performance): https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Oracle-of-Maracoor-Audiobook/B09QH49SPC

Learn more about Gregory's literary career here and purchase his other books (Andrew recommends the entire Wicked series, Mirror Mirror, and Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister): https://gregorymaguire.com/

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Main Title (The Wizard of Oz) · The MGM Studio Orchestra · The MGM Studio Chorus ℗ 2015 Turner Entertainment Co. and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

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Hey, true crime friends! This week we are discussing the tragic and racially motivated murder of 22-year-old James Cates Jr. 

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Sources for this week:

https://south.unc.edu/james-cates/g

https://amp.newsobserver.com/news/local/article259931390.html

https://abc11.com/amp/james-cates-unc-memorial-for-history/12131114/

https://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/K-0538/excerpts/excerpt_631.html

https://newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn83045120/1970-11-28/ed-1/seq-1/

Rosie was also able to track down an article from an old newspaper about this case- because she's just AMAZING like that! (Will have a photo for you all on the socials)

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Who's ready to be haunted by the spirit of Edgar Allan Poe? In April, Andrew went to a literary conference all about Poe where he met so many Poe scholars and lovers, but now it's time for all of you to join him as he takes you behind the scenes. If you're a horror/thriller/gothic literature fan and especially a Poe one, this episode is for you! And just in time for Halloween. 

Andrew is joined with fellow 19th-century American Literature scholars, Jess Flarity, Maria Ishikawa, and Ashley Kniss to recap their experience at the International Edgar Allan Poe conference. They each open up about their scholarly interest in Poe and what they learned from others at the conference. Get ready to learn how to interpret Poe's writing from different critical approaches and the advice each scholar has for the future of literary conferences, like the Poe one.

Learn more about Jess' work here: https://cola.unh.edu/english/faculty-staff-directory/english-graduate-student-profiles

Follow Ashley on IG, @catoctinfarmwitch and learn more about her work here: https://www.stevenson.edu/academics/schools/school-humanities-social-sciences/hass-faculty/ashley-kniss

Follow Maria on IG, @marikaistic and learn more about her work here: https://www.umass.edu/english/graduate-students

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Hey, true crime friends! This week I sat down with the host of the missing person's podcast Creme De La Crime- Sam Randall! 

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Dr. Stacy Wolf, one of America's leading scholars on musical theater, sits down with Andrew to talk about the magic of musical theater. Right away, she realizes that Andrew is just as obsessed with Broadway, and they discuss their approach to teaching the Broadway Musical. At Princeton, Stacy is a professor of theater and the director of the program in Music Theater, and she explains that one of her favorite questions to ask her students is their experience with going to Broadway. Stacy dissects all of the elements that are involved in putting together a Broadway musical. 

While opening up about the importance of community theater, Stacy reveals why theater is an art to be cherished in any community. Andrew even gets to talk about how important his summer theater camp, Mainstage was and how it allowed him to embrace his gay identity. And because Andrew couldn't help himself, he asks Stacy so many hard hitting musical theater questions. What does she really think of Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals? Which musical does she always have playing in the background when she's writing? What it's like to teach a Stephen Sondheim course? 

Be sure to check out Stacy's writing including her books Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theater Across America, A Problem Like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical, and Changed For Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical: https://bookshop.org/books?keywords=stacy+wolf

You can find more information and all of Stacy's work here: https://stacywolf.princeton.edu/bio/

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Educational Copyright: "Dreamgirls" (Dreamgirls, Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen, Geffen Records, 1982), "End Credits" (Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, Disney, 1997)

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Andrew sits down with poet Richie Hofmann to talk about Richie's new book of poems A Hundred Lovers (2022). In Richie's own words, this is "an erotic journal in poems" and a queer male "catalog of encounters, sublime, steamy, and frank." 

As soon as they sit down together, Andrew and Richie bond over their South Jersey upbringing and their queer male literary aesthetic. Richie opens up about how his book explores promiscuity, monogamy, and a series of love affairs. 

In addition to A Hundred Lovers, Richie is the author of Second Empire (2015), and his poetry regularly appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, and The Yale Review.

Get your hands on Richie's A Hundred Lovers here: https://bookshop.org/books/a-hundred-lovers-poems/9780593320983

Or have the pleasure of listening to Richie read the entire collection of poems here: https://www.audible.com/pd/A-Hundred-Lovers-Audiobook/0593551184

Follow Richie Hofmann on IG, @richiehof and Twitter, @RichieHof. 

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Hey, true crime friends! This week we will be discussing the gruesome murders of Dryden High School cheerleaders Jennifer Bolduc and Sarah Hajney.  

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Sources for today's episode:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-stacks-the-searing-story-of-how-murder-stalked-a-tiny-new-york-town

https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/08/nyregion/two-girls-16-are-slain-after-house-sitting-in-finger-lakes-region.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/03/nyregion/man-charged-in-killings-of-2-girls-is-found-hanged-in-cell.html

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17979052/jennifer-lynn-bolduc

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17978971/sarah-ann-hajney

https://apnews.com/article/d5ad12784556357f62ca1230349088fa

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/10/13/girls-slayings-latest-tragedy-for-ny-town/92c9117f-8547-4530-8d5a-3b22ef3a5ae0/

https://apnews.com/article/916f7fc602e17934a599ed4d775df61d

https://www.ghosttownpod.com/blog/the-dark-days-of-dryden/

https://youtu.be/vygXqqM8_1Q

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Ignacio Darnaude, a queer male art historian and film producer, joins Andrew in The Ivory Tower Boiler Room to open up conversations about the queer male art world. Ignacio starts by dissecting what he has coined "Breaking the Gay Code in Art."  He uses the analogy of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" to dig into why the closet has to be thrown open in the art world. For example, why do so many audience members, in his art lectures, audibly gasp when he reveals that a canonical male artist is in fact sexually interested in men.

Throughout the interview, Ignacio explains the nuances of labelling a male artist or his work as "gay," "homoerotic," or "queer." And, you better be taking notes since we talk about queer art all the way from ancient Greece to the 20th century. A few key figures include Michelangelo, Donatello, Thomas Eakins, J.C. Leyendecker, and Tom of Finland. Head to our Instagram to see some of these artists and their homoerotic works.

Ignacio's writing has appeared in the Gay and Lesbian Review where he has explored the queer art of Paul Cadmus, John Singer Sargent, Michelangelo, and Grant Wood.

You can find his Gay and Lesbian Review writing here: https://glreview.org/?s=ignacio+darnaude

Be sure to follow Ignacio's queer art scholarship on Instagram, @breakingthegaycodeinart where you'll find a link to his YouTube channel, and follow his personal account @ignaciolosangeles.

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Thanks to Anne Sophie Andersen and Meghan Ames for our theme song, "Loverman."

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Hey, true crime friends! On this week's (late) episode of True Crime in Academia, we will be diving into the strange disappearance of UCLA freshman Michael Negrete in 1999.

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Sources for today's case:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-apr-16-me-51723-story.html

https://dailybruin.com/2003/04/03/mary-negrete-continues-search

https://coreysobell.medium.com/what-happened-to-missing-ucla-student-michael-negrete-20166437a699

(https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/7kdjuh/freshman_michael_negrete_disappeared_from_his/)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Michael_Negrete

https://charleyproject.org/case/michael-william-negrete

https://themorbidlibrary.com/2021/09/20/the-missing-michael-negrete/?amp=1

https://web.archive.org/web/20080714203144/http://www.findmikenow.com/

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Andrew and guest co-host, Ceren Usta, welcome literary scholar Dr. Anne Stevens into the Ivory Tower Boiler Room. Right away, these three literary scholars jump into the difference between literary theory and literary criticism. There are so many Public Humanities questions that are asked in this episode including why would a literature lover, who isn't a literary scholar, be interested in learning more about literary theories? How does it shape their reading experience? As Anne reveals, starting to learn more literary approaches actually deepens your analysis of, not only literature, but also television and film. 

In Literary Theory and Criticism: An Introduction (published by Broadview Press), Anne provides an overview of major figures and movements in literary theory and criticism from antiquity to the 21st century. She explains to Andrew and Ceren why she started in antiquity, and why the historic background of literary theory is so important. Ceren asks Anne what the current state of literary criticism looks like in the university? Don't worry, Anne has the answer!

Andrew even gets Anne to play a literary theory Wizard of Oz game that was inspired by Jan Balakian (his undergrad. professor). 

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Make sure to follow Anne Stevens on Twitter, @ahstevens1, and find out more about her work here: https://uwosh.edu/cols/about-the-uw-oshkosh-college-of-letters-and-science/

And definitely follow Ceren Usta on IG, @cerennusta_ and learn more about her work here: https://www.cerenusta.com/

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