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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 Apr 07, 2020
Tuesday Apr 07, 2020
In this episode, there's some talk about how we're dealing with the state lockdown due to the Coronavirus. Then we discuss our current projects and revisit the topic of episode #49 and how we've implemented powerful first sentences into our writing. We also do a little brainstorming on current projects.
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Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
In this episode, we start things off by discussing the prestige that comes with being essential members of the workforce during the coronavirus pandemic. After that, we talk about the importance of the first sentence in your work. Then we spend a long period of time reading some of those most famous first sentences in fiction history and break them down accordingly.
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Tuesday Mar 24, 2020
Tuesday Mar 24, 2020
In this episode, we come up with the greatest superhero story ever told! Spoiler, it's about super-herpes. After that, we talk about 10 of the best post-apocalyptic novels as suggested by our friends at https://reedsy.com/discovery/blog/best-post-apocalyptic-books
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Saturday Mar 21, 2020
Saturday Mar 21, 2020
In this episode, we give our complete review of the cult classic, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. We breakdown the writing style, what we liked and dislike, what we took away from the novel, and why we think it's so popular. We also discuss its cultural significance to the United States and how it might be interpreted around the world.
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Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
In this episode, we talk about some of the best comic book movies that aren't connected with Marvel Or DC. We also give a mini-review of the movie Knives Out.
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Saturday Mar 14, 2020
Saturday Mar 14, 2020
To kick off another Inebriated Reading Challenge, Caleb is joined by author Ashleigh Hatter to discuss our reading of J.D. Salinger's cult classic, The Catcher in the Rye.
This episode features classic DPW nonsense, as well as some interesting talk about the greatest American authors in history. We also break down the book a little bit and discuss what we hope to gain creatively, if anything, from The Catcher in the Rye.
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Tuesday Mar 10, 2020
Tuesday Mar 10, 2020
In this episode, we actually start things off by discussing who we put on our Mount Rushmore of American writers. After that, we get down and dirty and read some of the worst quotes from romance novels. And trust us, some of them are pretty BAD!
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Tuesday Mar 03, 2020
Tuesday Mar 03, 2020
We talk about mumble rap, our recent trip to Detroit for Astronomicon, and get interrupted by a drunk girl on roller skates.
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Saturday Feb 29, 2020
Saturday Feb 29, 2020
Well, we've done it, folks. We've reached the end of our Conan journey. In this final episode, we talk about the final two stories in The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian collection.
We start things off with the super racist "The Vale of Lost Women," and go over "The Devil in Iron." We end the episode by giving our ratings for the whole collection as well as Robert E. Howard's writing style.
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Tuesday Feb 25, 2020
Tuesday Feb 25, 2020
In the second part of our discussion on great books written by black authors, we finish out the list we began in part one. We also talk more about the poetry of Langston Hughes, what books on this list we are most interested in reading, and what books we want to read in the near future.
Caleb also goes on a mini-rant about racism in boxing and what types of poetry he likes and despises.
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