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A nonprofit writing and arts podcast aimed at exploring various aspects to the craft of writing, reading, drinking, and literature's impact on society and pop culture. A mix of raunchy humor and useful information, DPW is sure to have something you'll enjoy.
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Tuesday Dec 07, 2021
Tuesday Dec 07, 2021
We start today's episode off with a discussion about the use of adverbs in your writing. Specifically, whether you should follow the old adage of cutting them out of your work or if it's not actually that bad to use them. After that, we have a long conversation about purple prose.
For those who don't know, purple prose is essentially overwriting to the point that it harms the story you're telling. We talk about whether we think purple prose gets a bad rap and if it should hold a place in your writing.
We end the episode by talking about allegory (not analogy, which we so egregiously say over and over again).
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Friday Dec 03, 2021
Friday Dec 03, 2021
This week we cover three more wild stories from Haruki Murakami's short story collection, The Elephant Vanishes. We meet a man who has a very odd diary, a miserable wife who shops for lederhosen, and a mysterious rich guy who has a passion for burning down random barns.
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
We cover a lot of topics in this one. We start off by discussing Professor Tolkien's view on escapism and what we think about people who use entertainment as a means to escape their lives for a bit. That transforms into a quick conversation about media personalities who purposely say and do outlandish things to garner attention.
When we finally get to the topic at hand, we have a wonderful discussion about how underappreciated we feel classic pulp writers are. Writers like Robert E. Howard, Raymond Chandler, Ian Fleming, and H.P. Lovecraft. Then Spencer takes things to a controversial level by naming who he thinks is the greatest living American author. This opens up a whole new discussion that gets really fun.
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Friday Nov 26, 2021
Friday Nov 26, 2021
In today's episode, we discuss three more stories from Haruki Murakami's short story collection, The Elephant Vanishes. In this one, we cover themes of obsession, living a mundane, unfulfilling existence, and weird creeps!
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
We had wayyyy too much fun recording this episode. We start things off with a quick conversation about the appropriate size for cupcakes. After that, we get into the heart of things and break down 50 of the best fantasy characters from books, movies, and TV shows.
Spoiler alert, there are a lot, and we mean A LOT, of characters left off of the list we found. But we still think there were some solid picks on the list and we had a blast acting like buffoons while discussing them. Also, be sure to check out what comes after the outro music.
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Saturday Nov 20, 2021
Saturday Nov 20, 2021
We're back with a new season of A Murakami Minute! This go around we're reading and discussing Haruki Murakami's short story collection, The Elephant Vanishes.
In today's episode, we talk about the first two stories in the collection, The Wind-Up Bird and Tuesday's Women, and The Second Bakery Attack. We discuss how the first story is a part of Murakami's most famous novel, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. We also go over our feelings on the translations (which are done by different translators) and how they change the writing styles of the stories.
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
Caleb opens things off with his one-second Fellowship of the Ring review and an update on how his novel is coming along. After that, we get into a discussion about the importance of character motivation in storytelling. We talk about how important character motivations, character goals, and overcoming obstacles are to telling a good story.
There are some examples of well-known characters and their motivations discussed throughout the episode. We end things by talking a little about future social media plans for DPW.
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Tuesday Nov 09, 2021
Tuesday Nov 09, 2021
We start things off by discussing some of the recent backlash (and praise) we got for our Blood Meridian Book of the Month episode. After that, we get into the topic at hand, which is something we love talking about.
For a long time, we have traveled similar roads on our individual reading journeys. But recently we have finally split. Caleb has gone down a hard fantasy road, and Spencer has decided to check out some classic science fiction. We go over our reasons for taking the reading directions we have, and more importantly, how it has impacted our writing.
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Tuesday Nov 02, 2021
Tuesday Nov 02, 2021
WARNING: This episode deals with discussions of violence and sexual assault.
It's been some time since we last did a Book of the Month episode. So for the month of October, we felt it would be fitting to cover the ultra-violent novel, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. We do our best to give our honest opinion of this highly regarded piece of literature. Though, we might be a bit too honest!
We discuss violence and what it means in this book. We also have a conversation about masculine fiction and how we categorize what is considered masculine fiction. There's a lot going on in this episode so if the topics we discuss interest you, make sure to listen to the whole episode because even after it seems like we're done, we find more ground to cover.
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Tuesday Oct 26, 2021
Tuesday Oct 26, 2021
Caleb kicks things off by reading a poem suggested by a listener of the show. After that, we cover a list of awesome (and one that's not so awesome!) books that are perfect for people who enjoyed the new Netflix show Squid Game.
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