Literary Loitering - Irreverent Mockery With Cultural Anarchists

Literary Loitering - Irreverent Mockery With Cultural Anarchists

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  • Literary Loitering 59 – The Goondock Saints

    This week we've got news that isn't news, facts that aren't facts, blatant copyright infringement and secret underground Robin Hood library fraud.

    Our featured book is American Gods: The Definitive Edition by Neil Gaiman.

    #AmericanGods #NeilGaiman #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #Arts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts

    49 min
  • Literary Loitering 58 - Dorky Daredevil Vs. The Comma Crusader

    It's 2017, and we begin the year with Adventures in Moominland, Watership Down (again), blatant plagiarism and Cormac McCarthy's attitude towards punctuation.

    We also take a look at books that were ruined by one bad chapter.

    #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #Arts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts

    56 min
  • Literary Loitering 57 – Mutton-Shunters Dressed As Lamb

    It's that time of the year again, and Santa has delivered us a sack full of goodies thanks to the Literary Review's “Bad Sex in Fiction Award”.

    We also somehow (we're still not sure how), wind up investigating old insults.

    #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #Arts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts

    1 hr 6 min
  • Literary Loitering 56 – Spirit Roasts and Cocktails

    Strange things are afoot with ghost-written novels, spirit cooking and Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned.

    Our featured books are Old Venus (Co-edited by George R. R. Martin & Gardner Dozois), and The Obsidian Throne (Book 5 of The Ballad Sir Benfro), by J. D. Oswald.

    #OldVenus #GeorgeRRMartin #GardnerDozois #TheObsidianThrone #TheBalladofSirBenfro #JD_Oswald #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #Arts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts

    1 hr 8 min
  • Literary Loitering 55 – Gated Community Fantasy

    Ice Cube will pay the role of Fagin in Disney's new musical adaptation of Oliver Twist (we're not kidding). We also find out more about Charlie the Choo Choo, Christopher Marlowe and Anaïs Nin.

    Our featured books are The Mage Wars Omnibus by Mercedes Lackey & Larry Dixon, and With the Lightnings (A Republic of Cinnabar Navy Novel), by David Drake.

    #TheMageWarsOmnibus #MercedesLackey #LarryDixon #WiththeLightnings #RepublicofCinnabarNavy #David_Drake #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #Arts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts

    1 hr
  • Literary Loitering 54 – The Flavour of Existential Dread

    We're top-filled with weirdness this week with surrealist cook books, scary clowns, Mein Drumpf and awards for good and bad sex.

    We also have a quiz about authors insulting other authors.

    #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #Arts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts

    53 min
  • Literary Loitering 53 – The Temple of Bad Ideas

    Things continue to be odder than normal with a new twist in a war of words, Scottish translations of English books and a comic-book about the history of sex.

    Our featured books are Duskfall by Christopher Husberg and Aliens Omnibus volume 2 (Aliens: Genocide by David Bischoff and Aliens: Alien Harvest by Robert Sheckley).

    #Duskfall #ChristopherHusberg #Aliens Omnibus #AlienHarvest #DavidBischoff #AlienHarvest #Robert_Sheckley #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #Arts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts

    1 hr 20 min
  • Literary Loitering 52 – Licence To Quill

    It's an odder than whatever passes for normal this week as Frederick Forsyth decides to stop writing thrillers, the Oxford Electronic Dictionary adds more strange words and phrases to the English language, and beer is made from the yeast found on Roald Dahl's special writing chair ...

    Our featured books are A Study in Sable by Mercedes Lackey, The Witch's Vacuum Cleaner by Sir Terry Pratchett and Alice by Christina Henry.

    #AStudyinSable #MercedesLackey #TheWitchesVacuumCleaner #TerryPratchett #Alice #Christina_Henry #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #Arts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts

    1 hr 5 min
  • Literary Loitering 51 – Big Papa Hemingway

    Aside from Elon Musk accidentally causing the price of a book to skyrocket and a Hemingway winning a Hemingway lookalike contest, the big news is that Terry Pratchett's “The Wee Free Men” is being adapted for a movie!

    We also look at the working titles of some classic novels and some of the better book-to-movie adaptations.

    #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #Arts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts

    42 min
  • Literary Loitering 50 – Everything Needs More Swashbuckling

    This week the English language obtained some strange new words and phrases, a Mexican artist creates The Trump Hut and Saddam Hussein wrote several fiction novels?

    Our featured books are Voyage of the Basilisk: A Memoir of Lady Trent (#3), by Marie Brennan and Eagle in Exile (book 2 of The Hesperian Trilogy,) by Alan Smale.

    #VoyageoftheBasilisk #AMemoirbyLadyTrent #MarieBrennan #EagleinExile #TheHesperianTrilogy #Alan_Smale #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #Arts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts

    52 min

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