Don’t trust fairies and other fey creatures like unicorns. After that public service announcement it’s time for our resident cultural anarchists to venture into the murky dystopia of literature and the arts where they discover racism from the creator of Little House on the Prairie, authors retiring then making comebacks, […]
Literary Loitering
Literary Loitering 87 – He’s Got The Whole World In His Koozie
Cultural anarchy reigns once more, and to kick things off this week we’ve got another Game-Of-Thrones-watch! So what has Grr Martin been up to this time? We find out before we return to the ongoing “Cocky” copyright saga, followed by a brief stop to find out why the Bollinger Everyman […]
Literary Loitering 86 – Captain Swallow: Scourge of All Seamen
We’re a man down this week, but since it’s the most sensible of our three amigos it’s up to Andrew and Producer Rob to offer a half-hearted Amigo Salute before settling down to the serious business of cultural anarchy. So what do we have in store this time? Well, John […]
Literary Loitering 85 – Middle-Class Oedipus Rex
An annual, grandiose and symbolic event is upon us once again, but before we get into all of that we find out that domestic dramas are apparently crowding out traditional fantasy fiction in children’s books. It’s then time for a long-haul art vandal in the family, fake terrorist movie promotions, […]
Literary Loitering 84 – Middle-Class Mutant Hipster Turtles
We’re a man down this week, but the solemn duty of being a cultural anarchist cannot be stopped by a mere superhero movie, no matter how justified the antagonist is. Two Thanoses (is that the correct plural, or is it like octopus so it would be Thani?), do not make […]
Literary Loitering 83 – John Updike’s Pee Maze
This week we get acquainted with the power of language via the medium of Sean Penn’s debut novel Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff, after which we find that an unnamed male author has claimed that he’s living proof that men can write believable female characters (we’re confused as well, […]
Literary Loitering 82 – Peter Rabbit’s Soul-Sucking Eldritch Abomination
We begin this episode with the shocking revelation that schools are teaching children to not only read classic literature, but to understand it as well. The surprises continue when we discover a surprising inclusion in an Indian children’s book about inspirational leaders, and that Beatrix Potter probably wouldn’t have been […]
Literary Loitering 81 – Unlock The Summer Beef Closet
Kicking things off is the news that there’s a new fantasy sheriff in town – or there will be soon as Discworld’s Ankh-Morpork City Watch are getting their own TV series (which makes us very, very happy). After that we discover that someone else has discovered a lock of what […]
Literary Loitering 80 – Jeff Goldblum: Interdimensional Sex God
After a decent hiatus for showbiz purposes, our infamous books, arts and culture podcast returns with all of the panache of a drunken screening of a Carry On movie. Kicking off the news for 2018 is Grr Martin’s hint that the long-awaited The Winds of Winter won’t be out this […]
Literary Loitering 79 – Selfies With Malice and Forethought
It’s the last show of 2017 and we’ve swapped our Graham for a Mick. In other news, the winner of the Literary Review’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award has been announced, a 12 year-old photographer causes giraffe-based flashbacks for Andrew, selfies get their own museum and Texas prisons have some […]