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Conversational profiles focusing on the dark side of artists. Hosts @bradkelly and @kautzmania . Ep art by @pinealcolada
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Now available to supporters on the 'stack and the 'tron: our episode on the life & work of Ursula K. Le Guin, who humanized science fiction and elevated fantasy to high art.
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@aelita1917
If being a bit of a weirdo eliminates somebody from being a great writer....well, there's basically nobody left.
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Fixed it.
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@weathergrrrl
@marybindc
@rebecca_fachner
His little brother died of leukemia. What's he supposed to do? Yoga?
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Before age 50, you need to read these 7 books.
1. HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
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Anton Giulio Bragaglia (1890 - 1960), the Italian writer and photographer who published Futurist manifestos, wrote satirical pamphlets, ran an avant-garde theatre, and directed THAÏS--which may be the only surviving Italian Futurist film.
As we prepare for our episode on the ground-breaking film-maker Maya Deren, we're going to take a look at some other experimental filmmakers who have contributed to the idea of what a film is and what it can do.
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As we develop our episode on Yukio Mishima, here on twitter we’ll be posting threads on some other 20th Century Japanese writers you ought to know.
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Robert W. Chambers (1865 – 1933) was a writer best known for THE KING IN YELLOW—a collection of intertwined tales of the weird, horrific, and romantic that found an admirer in Lovecraft. The historical fiction that comprises most of his oeuvre has been largely forgotten.
As we develop our episode on Mary Shelley—the author of Frankenstein—we’ll be posting some threads about other writers whose work gave shape to the horror genre.
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Aaron Gwyn (
@AmericanGwyn
) returns to the pod to dive deep on the life and work of Cormac McCarthy: dreamer, wanderer, late-night DJ, stone stacker, and one of the greatest novelists of his generation. (Lnk in comment)
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The great
@AldousAsterion
returned to talk the life and work of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges: a poet, polemicist, and a writer of extraordinary vision.
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@hering_david
You and/or your followers might be interested in an in-depth episode we did on Tarkovsky's life and work (including plenty of STALKER lore):
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Jean Genet (1910 – 1986) was a French playwright, novelist, and poet whose work—often including existential portrayals of criminality and the underworld—thrust him into relationships with prominent thinkers and activists from Cocteau and Derrida to Huey Newton and Yassar Arafat.
As we wait patiently and interminably for our episode on the life and work of the great Irish writer Samuel Beckett, on twitter here we’ll be posting some threads on other figures who’ve been associated with the movement that critic Martin Esslin termed The Theatre of the Absurd.
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The great
@MrEwanMorrison
joined us in the Dark Room to talk Andrei Tarkovsky: beauty, truth, time, and the elements.
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Kenzaburō Ōe (1935 – 2023) was a Nobel Prize-winning author from a rural Japanese prefecture who became a prominent voice in Japanese culture. Following the birth of his developmentally disabled son Hikari, much of Ōe’s writing was an effort to give the young man a voice.
As we develop our episode on Yukio Mishima, here on twitter we’ll be posting threads on some other 20th Century Japanese writers you ought to know.
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Here is our in-depth episode on the life and work of David Foster Wallace. We hope it's entertaining but not too entertaining, you know?
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Our episode on the life and work of Yukio Mishima--from a torturous childhood to a ritual suicide, with a brilliant oeuvre in between.
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If we discard artists because they're flawed, there'll be no culture left.
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Shel Silverstein (1930 - 1999) was a poet, cartoonist, songwriter, etc, and had a successful career before turning to work for children. His books such as WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS and THE GIVING TREE are perennial favorites for American kids.
As we approach our episodes on Charles Bukowski and Emily Dickinson, we're going to do some threads on a few other American poets you ought to know about.
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Our episode on the life and work of Andrei Tarkovsky. A filmmaker's filmmaker and an obsessive visionary who left beauty and wreckage in his wake.
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We return to the scene of the crime to give William S. Burroughs the full AoD treatment. A high society low-life, reprehensible weirdo, and a brilliant writer who waged war against CONTROL in all its forms.
(link in comment)
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"we saw you from across the bar and we really dig your vibe"
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In a VERY special Dark Room, the great
@AmericanGwyn
has joined us to talk about BLOOD MERIDIAN.
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Tonight we drop our PATREON-ONLY episode on Denis Johnson. "A true American artist."
/Artofdarkpod
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Our full-length episode on the enigmatic life and transcendent work of the poet--and mystic--Emily Dickinson.
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The first core episode of Season III has dropped. We talk the life and work of Joseph Conrad: exile, gambler, sailor, gunrunner, spendthrift, terrible husband, and one of the most influential novelists of all time.
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Our episode on the life and work of Flannery O'Connor. A charming eccentric, an extraordinary writer, and a deeply faithful woman who bore her cross until the very end. (lnk in comment)
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Our in-depth episode on the life and work of the monumental Irish playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett.
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Jakob Böhme (1575 - 1624) a shoemaker who experienced a mystical vision of the spiritual structure of the world while contemplating a beam of sunlight, wrote controversial works of Christian theology that would deeply influence Hegel, and died as a peddler of woolen gloves.
For spooky season, we're working on an episode on the life and work of Aleister Crowley, the Great Beast himself, "The Wickedest Man in the World."
Along the way, we'll be taking a look at a few other occultists, esotericists, drama kids, and practitioners of the dark arts.
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Check out our episode on the life and work of Edgar Allan Poe. An orphan and an enlisted man who would become one of America's most imaginative and influential writers.
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A lot of new followers in the last couple days. Very exciting.
We produce in-depth, multihour podcasts exploring the life and work of great artists--with a few laughs so we don't cry.
The subjects we've covered:
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The great
@thuleanrevenant
joined us once again in the Dark Room to talk David Foster Wallace. We ask, among other things, if Infinite Jest is the last Great American Novel? And just what the hell is a "Great American Novel" anyway?
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The real people in Cormac McCarthy's SUTTREE (from Dianne C. Luce's "Reading the World")
Our Cormac McCarthy episode is coming.
In the meantime, we’ll be posting some threads about other recipients of the MacArthur Fellowship (sometimes called “the genius grant”) without which we BLOOD MERIDIAN may have never come to fruition.
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Icymi, novelist and Blood Meridian expert
@americangwyn
joined us to talk the life and work of the one-and-only Ernest Hemingway.
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We used to have a counterculture. A proper counterculture.
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Passage Press impresario
@L0m3z
joined us in the Dark Room to talk Philip K. Dick, noir, neonoir, Blade Runner, and much more.
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Well, 2022 was quite a year for us. And we're really excited about what we've got cooking for 2023.
Thanks to everyone who's checked us out.
And we are deeply grateful to all the great guests who've been so generous with their time. Follow plz:
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As we approach our episode on David Foster Wallace, we'll be taking a look at the lives of some other writers associated with the postmodern movement in literature.
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As we approach our episode on Dante Alighieri (and in the wake of our episode on John Milton), we’ll be taking a closer look at artists—painters, writers, musicians, and perhaps others—who have attempted to depict the Devil.
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Spooky season has commenced.
How about a nice episode on Edgar Allan Poe just before Halloween?
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As we prepare for our episode on the ground-breaking film-maker Maya Deren, we're going to take a look at some other experimental filmmakers who have contributed to the idea of what a film is and what it can do.
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The great
@americangwyn
--The Judge of Substack--joins for an in-depth episode on the lives and work of Ernest Hemingway.
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Our Cormac McCarthy episode is coming.
In the meantime, we’ll be posting some threads about other recipients of the MacArthur Fellowship (sometimes called “the genius grant”) without which we BLOOD MERIDIAN may have never come to fruition.
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A tale of High Adventure! This is the life and work of Robert E. Howard--graphomaniac, fighter, and creator of the most iconic character to ever come out of the pulps. (lnk in comment)
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Here's a PREVIEW of our in-depth episode on the life & work of Cormac McCarthy with the great
@americangwyn
--exclusively available on the premier feed for the next week.
You could be listening to the entire thing right now (plus hours of paywalled AoD material) for just $5 a
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Edward De Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. Thug, pederast, occultist, spendthrift...and the First Genius of English letters? Let's see if we can figure it out. Behind the paywall for now (lnks in comment).
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As we prepare to deliver our episode on Robert E. Howard—creator of indelible pulp characters such as Conan the Cimmerian, Solomon Kane, and Kull the Conqueror—we’re going to post some threads on a few of the other writers in the “Lovecraft Circle.”
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@yancypart2
@KipperLeah
@RealSamRogers
Dave Chappelle has done more for "social justice issues" than this guy could ever dream to
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People are enjoying this one. If you don't know Flannery O'Connor, there's no better place to start. And if you've read her work, you simply need to know her story.
Our episode on the life and work of Flannery O'Connor. A charming eccentric, an extraordinary writer, and a deeply faithful woman who bore her cross until the very end. (lnk in comment)
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Well, friends, some 'life happens' kind of stuff has struck AoD and we've got to take a minute off from core episodes. We'll be back in full force in October.
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You there. Listen to our episode on Tarkovsky.
Our episode on the life and work of Andrei Tarkovsky. A filmmaker's filmmaker and an obsessive visionary who left beauty and wreckage in his wake.
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Episodes so far:
✅ William S. Burroughs
✅Oscar Wilde
✅Anna Kavan
✅Gurdjieff
✅Jr. Kimbrough
✅Kubrick
✅Kafka
✅Woolf
✅Rod Serling
✅ Tennessee Williams
✅Pamela Colman Smith
✅Johnny Cash
✅Brando
✅Faulkner
✅Sarah Kane
➕5 in dev.
Who else should get the AoD treatment?
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good night, sweet prince.
BREAKING NEWS: Cormac McCarthy, a preeminent voice in American literature over the better part of the past half-century, died today at his home in Santa Fe, N.M., his publisher, Knopf, confirmed. He was 89. Full obit to follow.
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Tonight, our episode on John Milton.
Get ready for Pandemonium.
As we develop our episode on the Poet and Revolutionary John Milton, we’ll be taking a look at a few of the other figures whose work brought the English language into Modernity.
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Because we love you, we're leaking a special AFTER DARK episode we recorded last year with
@americangwyn
. Talking the Tarot in BLOOD MERIDIAN along with a few other McCarthy topics.
Remember, for a measly $5 a month, you get access to 100+ After Dark episodes like this.
Our Cormac McCarthy episode is coming.
In the meantime, we’ll be posting some threads about other recipients of the MacArthur Fellowship (sometimes called “the genius grant”) without which we BLOOD MERIDIAN may have never come to fruition.
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For Patreon supporters only, the next edition of the Bookends Reading Club. On April 16, join us live to discuss Borges' landmark short story collection FICCIONES. A recording will be available for subscribers who can't make it.
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Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, muse to poets, and radical from birth. This is her story. (link in comment)
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We're working on a series of Shakespeare episodes. What's your favorite of his plays?
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As we approach our episodes on Charles Bukowski and Emily Dickinson, we're going to do some threads on a few other American poets you ought to know about.
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Who's going to tell 'em?
Question for the booktok girlies what’s the uh ✨spice✨ level in this book?
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Ernst Jünger. War hero, writer, philosopher, entomologist, traveler, and soothsayer--and a century unlike any other. Join us while as we take a four-dimensional look at his life and work.
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This image is a pretty good litmus test for politics: do you regard these men with respect, or disgust?
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The brilliant writer David Leo Rice (
@raviddice
,
@WakeIslandPod
) joined us in the Dark Room to talk about the dark, rich vein of Americana mined by both William Faulkner and H.P. Lovecraft.
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Lex Fridman? Never heard of him.
Why not sign up for the AoD Reading Club. . We're going to go deep. Come with us.
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Any wonder that this is where Hemingway chose to live?
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Robert Walser (1878 - 1956) a Swiss writer who profoundly influenced Kafka. After writing several under-appreciated novels while working in low-paying trades (e.g. a butler), and serving in WWI, he suffered a mental breakdown from which he never fully recovered.
As we work toward our episode on the life and work of legendary sailor-writer Joseph Conrad--author of HEART OF DARKNESS, LORD JIM, and many other classics--we're taking a look at some of the other writers working at the dawn of Modernism.
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Antonin Artaud. The powerful
@SafetyPropagan1
joins us to talk the life and work of this playwright, essayist, thinker, adventurer, and athlete of the soul.
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Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921 – 1990) was a Swiss writer of epic theatre and cerebral crime novels. His first play, a biting satire titled IT IS WRITTEN, caused fistfights in the audience. Many of his works were adapted into films such as THE VISIT (1964) and THE PLEDGE (2001).
As we wait patiently and interminably for our episode on the life and work of the great Irish writer Samuel Beckett, on twitter here we’ll be posting some threads on other figures who’ve been associated with the movement that critic Martin Esslin termed The Theatre of the Absurd.
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Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892 – 1927) is regarded as the “father of the Japanese short story” with works such as “Rashōmon” and “In a Grove” (which was adapted by Kurosawa into the film Rashōmon.Plauged by mental and physical illness, Akutagawa intentionally overdosed on barbital.
As we develop our episode on Yukio Mishima, here on twitter we’ll be posting threads on some other 20th Century Japanese writers you ought to know.
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Happy Birthday H.P. Lovecraft, you would have loved (hated?) the ALIEN franchise. Check out our in-depth episode on his life and work with the great
@writingben
.
(lnk in comment).
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Who was Hieronymus Bosch really? No one can say for sure, but we did our darnedest to quadrangulate who he might have been. And you'll never see the Garden of Earthly Delights the same...
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Charles Dellschau (1830 – 1923) was a Prussian-born butcher, Confederate soldier, & salesman, whose drawings, watercolors, & collages depict the flight experiments of the (fictional?) “Sonora Aero Club.” His scrapbooks were bought out of the trash by a Houston antiques dealer.
As we prepare our episode on the visionary sculptor James Hampton, we’ll be posting about a few other unschooled artists who worked outside of all convention.
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Astrologer extraordinaire Owen Briggs (
@BullOfHeaven_
) joined us to read Walt Disney's chart...and maybe give us some insight into the world Uncle Walt left in his wake.
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Who's going to write the
@newyorker
think piece about Art of Darkness? Something something 'Necessary, innovative, and yet problematic.'
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Please, leave podcasting to the professionals (us and our internet homies)
Emily Ratajkowski’s podcast cancelled as Sony lays off staffers
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Getting ready to do a four-hour podcast on the life and work of Cormac McCarthy with
@kautzmania
and
@bradkelly
for
@artofdarkpod
. We’re carrying the 🔥.
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As we prepare our episode on the American master Edgar Allan Poe, we’ll be posting threads about some of his contemporaries—19th Century poets, novelists, and story-tellers who knew him or were influenced by his work.
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As we develop our episode on the Marquise de Sade, we’ll be posting some threads about other figures who created some of their most well-known works while locked up.
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In the lead up to our next main episodes (Antonin Artaud and Philip K. Dick) we're going to be taking a look at some artists who were committed to mental institutions--either voluntarily or against their will.
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Welp...it will be an adventure at least.
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As we wait patiently and interminably for our episode on the life and work of the great Irish writer Samuel Beckett, on twitter here we’ll be posting some threads on other figures who’ve been associated with the movement that critic Martin Esslin termed The Theatre of the Absurd.
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