Saturday Show #22: Pan’s Labyrinth, Robert Coover, and Hunter S. Thompson
Summary: Saturday Show #22, The Austin Writing Group Podcast Episode 11. Relevant Links and Various Show Notes:<br> <a href="http://amzn.to/12W5VWv">Robert Coover</a><br><br> <a href="http://amzn.to/13tor9l">Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas</a><br><br> <a href="http://amzn.to/12W6644">Pan’s Labyrinth</a><br><br> <a href="http://amzn.to/12yse5P">The Talkative Corpse by Ann K. Sterzinger</a><br><br> <a href="http://amzn.to/10HYTnT">Almost Home by Frank Marcopolos</a><br><br> <a href="http://www.thedomainaustin.com/">The Domain, ATX</a><br> *<br> Topics discussed:<br> ~ Flaky girl-texts<br><br> ~ The Domain, Austin TX<br><br> ~ Metafiction, Fabulation, and Postmodernism: The Marriage Made in Hell<br><br> ~ EVERYTHING in a story being subjective, including plot, characters, time, setting<br><br> ~ Turning traditional storytelling on its head<br><br> ~ Tight stories told in disjointed narratives<br><br> ~ “Quenby and Ola, Swede and Carl” as a lesson in subtlety<br><br> ~ Theme vs. Message<br><br> ~ The necessity of visceral details<br><br> ~ Orienting the reader in a world s/he’s not familiar with<br><br> ~ Army black ops<br>
