Saturday Show Podcast
A podcast about literary fiction techniques, and writing more broadly. It's fun and quirky, while also providing straight-up hardcore info on craft.
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Saturday Show #103: How to Talk to Your Mother by Lorrie Moore
In this episode of the podcast we discuss "How to ...
In this episode of the podcast we discuss "How to Talk to Your Mother (Notes)" by Lorrie Moore, "Fixation of Belief" by philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce, and other high-minded topics because we're snobs like that. -
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Saturday Show #102: Pet Milk by Stuart Dybek
Surrounded by pit bulls, rattlesnakes, and mountain lions, the leather-jacketed ...
Surrounded by pit bulls, rattlesnakes, and mountain lions, the leather-jacketed renegades of the Austin Writing Workshop met to discuss the knife-blade vitality of art, literature, and philosophy, specifically the short story "Pet Milk" by Stuart Dybek...
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Saturday Show #101: How to Write a Treatment (+ Silence of the Lambs)
What if you had an opportunity to get a treatment ...
What if you had an opportunity to get a treatment in front of actual Hollywood producers and directors, in a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, a chance to seize everything you ever wanted? Would you capture it? Or let it slip? -
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Saturday Show #100: Bohemians by George Saunders
The Austin Writing Workshop met at the Westin at the ...
The Austin Writing Workshop met at the Westin at the Domain in Austin, Texas, to discuss literature and philosophy. This is the result. This is the 100th episode of Saturday Show. If you enjoy this podcast, please use the Amazon.
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Saturday Show #99: The Apologizer by Milan Kundera
At a Whole Foods at the Domain in Austin, Texas, ...
At a Whole Foods at the Domain in Austin, Texas, the Austin Writing Workshop breaks down "The Apologizer" by recluse and literary genius Milan Kundera and two chapters of Zeus's work-in-progress novel while drinking beer and chugging 5-Hour Energies. -
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Saturday Show #98: The Fly by Katherine Mansfield
Listen in as the members of the Austin Writing Workshop ...
Listen in as the members of the Austin Writing Workshop debate the literary merits of "The Fly" by Katherine Mansfield. Also, chapters 3 and 4 from Zeus's new novel, and much less drinking than in previous episodes. Sorry. -
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Saturday Show #97: The Santosbrazzi Killer by Heidi Julavits
This week, only 3 members of the notorious Austin Writing ...
This week, only 3 members of the notorious Austin Writing Workshop gathered to do battle over literature and philosophy. But that was enough. Listen to the sparks fly, the philosophical theories rumble, and the rhetoric zoom off the hook! -
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Saturday Show #96: Coming Sun.Mon.Tues. by Don DeLillo (+ Lecture on WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY?)
Every Friday (more or less) a group of renegade writers ...
Every Friday (more or less) a group of renegade writers gathers in Austin, Texas to drink alcohol, eat gluten-free snacks, and discuss literature, philosophy, and all manner of stimulating ideas. Listen in to the 96th episode of a Texas classic. -
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Saturday Show #95: The Pura Principle by Junot Diaz (+ The Philosophy and Rules of Art)
Is art completely subjective? Or are there objective rules which ...
Is art completely subjective? Or are there objective rules which need to be observed in order for an artistic project to be successful? This podcast explores. Plus, why Junot Diaz is terrible, considering subjectivity and objectivity as the same thing,
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Saturday Show #94: Last Day of the Last Furlough by J.D. Salinger (+ New School Lecture)
Technical Sergeant John F. Gladwaller, Jr., ASN 32325200, had on ...
Technical Sergeant John F. Gladwaller, Jr., ASN 32325200, had on a pair of gray-flannel slacks, a white shirt with the collar open, Argyle socks, brown brogues and a dark brown hat with a black band. He had his feet up on his desk,
