Keeping film brain out of literature. Anti-adaptation. Not all content is art. How to stop the Joker. ODDITY. PULSE. Books about cultivation and dragons. Update/teaser on publishing Adam Lehrer's next novel. What makes great art. Shop talk. Fences and parking lots. Who will save you from drowning? Support the show and get access to the full archive plus bonus content at patreon.com/agitator More on our writing: brokenriverbooks.com

The whitest Agitators you know (JDO and Eddy Rathke) bring you this episode in Kelby's absence. Talking: the pros and cons of ****, Tsutomu Nihei's Tower Dungeon, the Chinese genres Wuxia and Xianxia, Wuxiaworld, a reminder to leave the writing community, book clubs with HVAC techs, cultivation novels, what non-writers are looking for from writing, and more. Subscribe to Eddy's Substack: radicaledward.substack.com

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Kelby and JDO discuss Takashi Miike's Lumberjack the Monster, Jeremy Saulnier's Rebel Ridge, and Tim Burton's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice + the return of oil paintings as cover art, masculine rites of passage, grifters vs doers, being red-pilled vs just being normal, assassination attempts, and plenty of craft, marketing, and publishing talk. We're so back. brokenriverbooks.com

Troy James Weaver is the author of Witchita Stories, Temporal, Visions, Marigold, and Selected Stories. He lives in Wichita, Kansas with his wife and dogs. More at troyjamesweaver.com

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Kevin Kautzman is a playwright living in St. Paul, Minnesota. His award-winning plays have appeared around the UK and US and are available in print at Broadway Play Publishing. His dark social media comedy MODERATION was adapted for an online release and can be found at moderationplay.com. A past fellow of the Michener Center for Writers and the Playwrights’ Center, he is a co-founder of Bad Mouth Theatre Company.

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Brad Kelly is a writer from Detroit, Michigan. In addition to AoD, he has recently published HOUSE OF SLEEP, a work of literary psy-fi, and is currently developing a novel entitled THAT WHICH IS WITHIN and an experimental text investigating the Tarot card-by-card. He is a former Michener Fellow and has been widely published in literary magazines.

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I had Adam Cesare on the podcast! We talk about how to sell books at cons. I really admire this dude. He has a real love for the thing, and he goes out and fucking DOES IT. He wrote The Summer Job, Tribesmen, Video Night, and The Con Season.

patreon.com/agitator Fella - host of The Third Place and everyone's favorite Hard R Gamer - returns after way too long to discuss with Kelby the ways in which stories can be told through video games, how video games are like books, Metal Gear Solid (primarily 4), Hideo Kojima and his body curiosity, JRPGs, Red Dead Redemption 2 as the ultimate love/hate game, The Last of Us, adaptations, the next evolution of games and stories in general, Tekken as soap opera, and more. Also, we hit the summoning pool to bring JDO in on the action near the end, to help us take down the final Elden Ring boss. Listen to The Third Place: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-third-place/id1643088847 /// https://open.spotify.com/show/1J5EJqv53Cq2aTyo8V410K Follow Fella on X @outer_zon3

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