Guest: Meredith Albert of Resolve Psychotherapy, LLC.
First broadcast February 23 2018.
“When you put it that way? who doesn’t like praise and validation?”
Lost in the Stacks, Episode 374: A Good Leader is Hard to Find
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Monthly Archives: February 2018
Supercontext: Casino Royale, by Ian Fleming (with guest Van Jensen)
Together with guest Van Jensen, we dissect the original James Bond source material. We look at Ian Fleming’s life and possible wish fulfillment, as well as how he wrote and published this post-World War II spy story. And of course, we’d be remiss if we didn’t also discuss Bond’s misogyny and nationalistic fantasizing.Interested in the media we discussed this episode? Please support the show by purchasing it through our affiliate store:
- Casino Royale (the book)
- Casino Royale (the film that is nuts)
- Casino Royale (the film that is great)
- Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer
- Cryptocracy
- The Leg
- Spook Country
- The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
- The Honourable Schoolboy
- The Bond Dossier
- The Magic Christian
Additional Resources:
- Listen Notes
- Kerr, P., & Saunders, F. S. (2002). Licensed to print money. New Statesman, 131(4576), 38.
- Moran, C. (2013). Ian Fleming and the Public Profile of the CIA. Journal Of Cold War Studies, 15(1), 119.
- Bond, J. (2008). Nobody Does It Better. (cover story). In Britain, 76(2), 22.
- Grose, T. K. (2008). The Man With the Golden Typewriter. U.S. News & World Report, 144(13), 28.
- Casino Royale: 60 years old
- ‘The name’s Secretan? James Secretan’: Early draft of Casino Royale reveals what Ian Fleming wanted to call his super spy
- Bottoms Up
- Bond’s Women: Feminist Heroes or Mere Accessories?
- 5 Things I Learned About Women From The James Bond Books
Lost in the Stacks, Episode 373: The Return of the Revenge of Analog
Guest: Dan Shapiro of Glowforge.
First broadcast February 16 2018.
“You can’t make it better that way, only worse!”
Supercontext: Millennium, Seasons 1 – 3
Was this 1990s serial killer television drama about the end of the world? Or was it about having empathy for our fellow humans? Chris Carter (X-Files) created it after watching Se7en, but over the course of its three seasons Millennium shifted and changed, until unfortunately it was cancelled.
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Additional Resources:
- MILLENNIUM’S NIELSEN RATINGS – STATISTICAL CHARTS AND ANALYSIS
- TV’S BEST KEPT SECRET IMPROVES IN ITS SOPHOMORE SEASON
- Staring Into the Heart of Darkness
- CHRIS CARTER INTRODUCES US TO MILLENNIUM
- Back To Frank Black: A Return to Chris Carter’s Millennium. Edited by Adam Chamberlain & Brian A. Dixon. Published by Fourth Horseman Press, 2013.
Lost in the Stacks, Episode 372: Keep On Keeping On
Guest: Davia Nelson of The Kitchen Sisters.
First broadcast February 9 2018.
“Fact check!”
Supercontext: Michael Shea (w/ guest Robert Lamb)
Michael Shea was a genre writer who combined fantasy, science fiction and horror into a unique blend of wonder and imagination. Together with our guest Robert Lamb (Stuff To Blow Your Mind), we discuss Shea’s writing style and legacy.
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- Demiurge: The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales of Michael Shea
- Michael Shea listing on Amazon
- Eight Black Offerings
- The Grave Stompers: Six Tales From the Southern Earth
- Karl Edward Wagner listing on Amazon
- Swords and Deviltry (The Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser) (Vol 1)
- The End of the Story: The Collected Fantasies, Vol. 1 (The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith)
Additional Resources:
- www.michaelsheaauthor.com
- The Extra. (2009). Publishers Weekly, 256(49), 35.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee5ckbUQ4jI
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_FSICmPrDU
Lost in the Stacks, Episode 371: Ask Me Who I Was
Guest: Isabel Altamirano of the Georgia Tech Library.
First broadcast February 2 2018.
“We must never be content.”
Supercontext: Miami Blues
Based on a hard-boiled novel by Charles Willeford, this sweaty, sultry film has us questioning hedonism and the struggle between order and chaos. Between writer/director George Armitage, a very shirtless Alec Baldwin and killer performances by Jennifer Jason Leigh and Fred Ward… we’ve got plenty to talk about.
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- Miami Blues (the film)
- Miami Blues (the book)
- Grosse Point Blank
- Spartan
- Cast A Deadly Spell
- Tremors
- The Killing
- Top of the Lake
Additional Resources:
- Interview: George Armitage
- Pinkerton, N. (2015). PRINCE OF PULP. Sight & Sound, 25(7), 98.
- Fisher, M. J. (2000). The Unlikely Father of Miami Crime Fiction. Atlantic, 285(5), 117-121.
- Olson, Kirby. Comedy after Postmodernism: Rereading Comedy from Edward Lear to Charles Willeford . Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 2001
- When Satire Fails
- Miami Blues
- The New Cult Canon: Miami Blues
- Pastel Noir: George Armitage’s MIAMI BLUES
- Miami Blues
- The Overlooked Sunshine Noir ‘Miami Blues’ Finally Hits Blu-Ray