Literary Loitering - Irreverent Mockery With Cultural Anarchists

The calamitous cultural anarchists have wandered haphazardly into town again, and this time they’ve brought a friend on their never-ending quest for snacks and a comfy place to take a nap.

Kicking things off this week is our usual Game of Thrones-watch, which this time doesn’t involve Grr Martin but does involve the possibility that maps of Westeros could be used to assist in a real-world prison break. 

We’re a bit confused by that as well. 

After that there’s something spicy with details of Sean Spicer’s sizzling tell-all book, then it’s crime-fighting with Barack and Biden, MI6’s plans to recruit teenaged secret agents, and poisoning by books. 

Rounding things off is our featured book, which this week is The Synapse Sequence by Daniel Godfrey (New Pompeii, Empire of Time).

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Don’t trust fairies and other fey creatures like unicorns.

After that public service announcement it’s time for our resident cultural anarchists to venture into the murky dystopia of literature and the arts where they discover racism from the creator of Little House on the Prairie, authors retiring then making comebacks, essays about … essays (and Trump), the rise of Cockybot (pun very much intended), Elon Musk’s ideal utopia, how to defy ISIS with empty cans of date syrup, and a lot of regional words and phrases - some of which are from other countries!

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Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't!

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Cultural anarchy reigns once more, and to kick things off this week we’ve got another Game-Of-Thrones-watch!

So what has Grr Martin been up to this time? We find out before we return to the ongoing “Cocky” copyright saga, followed by a brief stop to find out why the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic literature is taking a break this year (the reason is amazing!).

After that it’s time for another one of our notorious quizzes where there are no winners … and this time it’s about regional sayings that are hard to translate into English.

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We’re a man down this week, but since it’s the most sensible of our three amigos it’s up to Andrew and Producer Rob to offer a half-hearted Amigo Salute before settling down to the serious business of cultural anarchy. 

So what do we have in store this time? Well, John le Carré has been pouring all kinds of scorn on British politics while parents are changing children’s stories if they’re deemed “too scary” … whatever that means.

In other news, Grr Martin is apparently doing a lot of stuff, but none of it relates to writing The Winds of Winter, a Tasmanian convict’s daring escape in 1829 is getting retold as a kid’s book about birds, romance novelists are involved in a copyright dispute over the word “cocky”, and the police in Turkmenistan are investigating private and public toilets for evidence that the president’s “portrait” is being used as toilet paper (we did not make that up!).

After all of that it’s time for Andrew to explore the romantic side of things in a collection called The Secret Loves of Geeks (edited by Hope Nicholson).

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An annual, grandiose and symbolic event is upon us once again, but before we get into all of that we find out that domestic dramas are apparently crowding out traditional fantasy fiction in children’s books. It’s then time for a long-haul art vandal in the family, fake terrorist movie promotions, and the rising threat of political correctness to the great British double entendre.

After that it’s time for a journey of discovery as Andrew takes Graham and Producer Rob 50 million years forward in time with After Man: A Zoology of the Future by Dougal Dixon. 

Rounding things off is the flamboyant cavalcade of sequins, political shenanigans, lucky cats, cultural appropriation, frills, bad ideas, awful pop music and derisive commentary that can only be the Eurovision Song Contest.

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We’re a man down this week, but the solemn duty of being a cultural anarchist cannot be stopped by a mere superhero movie, no matter how justified the antagonist is. 

Two Thanoses (is that the correct plural, or is it like octopus so it would be Thani?), do not make a right. 

Kicking things off is the unsurprising (seriously, if you’re still shocked by this where have you been?), news that Grr Martin will not release the Winds of Winter in 2018, but will release another, Westeros-related book - which is actually something we kind-of sort-of already knew … 

In other news there’s a lot of legal argy-bargy with To Kill A Mockingbird’s stage adaptation, a judgement on Richard III, Amazon reviews of James Comey’s scandalous tell-all book, and a couple of studies that tell us things we already knew. 

After all of that it’s time to kick back and relax with pictures of toy robots and doughnuts (other deserts are there as well), in our featured book Robotic Existentialism: The Art of Eric Joyner.

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This week we get acquainted with the power of language via the medium of Sean Penn’s debut novel Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff, after which we find that an unnamed male author has claimed that he’s living proof that men can write believable female characters (we’re confused as well, but that claim has led to a rather hilarious Twitter challenge). In other news, Neil Gaiman is going to produce a new TV adaptation of Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast novels, and Choose Your Own Adventure books make something of a comeback.

After that we let Producer Rob loose so he can … erm … get some things about Ready Player One off his chest before Andrew regales us with a dramatic reading of an Ernest Cline poem.

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We begin this episode with the shocking revelation that schools are teaching children to not only read classic literature, but to understand it as well.

The surprises continue when we discover a surprising inclusion in an Indian children’s book about inspirational leaders, and that Beatrix Potter probably wouldn’t have been happy with the new Peter Rabbit movie. Then, after a brief interlude on Broadway for a “controversial” new production of To Kill a Mockingbird it’s off to Paris, France for some naked art tourism.

Our featured books are The Universe and Me by Toria Garbutt followed by a bit of Sparring with Gil Kane: Debating the History and Aesthetics of Comics by Gil Kane and Gary Groth, after which Andrew got bored and moved on to post-apocalypses and zombies in Salvation City Chronicles by Leon Brown.

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Kicking things off is the news that there’s a new fantasy sheriff in town – or there will be soon as Discworld’s Ankh-Morpork City Watch are getting their own TV series (which makes us very, very happy).

After that we discover that someone else has discovered a lock of what is possibly George Washington’s hair in an old almanac, get some reasons to be optimistic from Talking Heads front man David Byrne, applaud Dolly Parton’s generous book donations, wonder why Terry Goodkind doesn’t like his cover art, and find out that ebooks are apparently stupid (according to a publisher of “real” books).

Our featured book is Spare And Found Parts by Sarah Maria Griffin.

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After a decent hiatus for showbiz purposes, our infamous books, arts and culture podcast returns with all of the panache of a drunken screening of a Carry On movie. 

Kicking off the news for 2018 is Grr Martin's hint that the long-awaited Winds of Winter won't be out this year (much to the surprise of nobody). After that it's a rip-roaring ride of discovery with children's books about fantastically great women, gender bias in kid's fiction, George A. Romero's unfinished zombie tales, Sean Hannity's fevered cheese dream about Obama's portrait, and Shakespeare plagiarism (not the way you thought though).

Our featured book journeys back to Koji Suzuki's world of Ringu and Spiral with his latest novel S. 

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