WHY DO YOU WRITE? with Troy James Weaver

patreon.com/agitator -> Where Blue Collar Working-Class Writers Who Love Miike, Anime, and Their Families, and Gangsta Rap Share the Sauce While Whipping It Up. Subscription options from free to $10/month.  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

Support this show and find more at patreon.com/agitator  Follow Art of Darkness: artofdarkpod.com 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. kevinkautzman.com twitter.com/kautzmania 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. bradkellyesque.com twitter.com/bradkelly TICKETS ON SALE NOW FOR MODERATION: A new play by Kevin Kautzman about content moderators losing their minds at work. October 3-13 at The Hive - 677 Hamline Ave North, St. Paul, MN 55104. Tickets HERE: https://moderationplay.com/ LIVE PODCAST October 26 -The Uncanny Death of Harry Houdini. WHERE: Planet Ant / Black Box / Rear Entrance - 2357 Caniff Hamtramck, MI 48212. Tickets HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/live-podcast-art-of-darkness-the-uncanny-death-of-harry-houdini-tickets-960876897667

Noah Rymer is the author of the upcoming Denouement (Anxiety Press) and editor-in-chief of Pere Ube. On this episode, we discuss organic vs curated diversity, constructive criticism, the Muse, using music to write atmosphere, and more. Check out Pere Ube: https://pereube.univer.se/ Some of Noah's stories: "Dead Los Angeles" https://expatpress.com/dead-los-angeles-noah-rymer/ "Errata" https://www.bruisermag.com/rymer_errata "Deliverance" https://apocalypse-confidential.com/2023/11/11/deliverance/ patreon.com/agitator

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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patreon.com/agitator Buy BRAZOS from Belle Point Press: https://bellepointpress.com/products/brazos Keep up with Justin Carter: https://juscarts.com/ Discussed:  Justin and Kelby's experiences and feelings of Brazoria County, Texas; poetry vs prose; "Not Meth"; escaping academia; sports journalism; fatherhood; devil possession and harvesting grave dirt from abandoned church cemeteries; Pokemon rap; the rise and fall of a local metal show promoter; the crossroads of anime and bath salts; the Wayans brothers and rebooting '90s sitcoms; child labor: for or against?