Art of Darkness
By Kevin Kautzman & Matt Taylor
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Hosted by very online writers Kevin Kautzman and Matt Taylor, Art of Darkness is a podcast about the dark side of (dead) artists, creatives, intellectuals, and the people who made history and continue to move culture. AoD features well-researched Core Episodes, Dark Room discussions with guests, plus special After Dark, Book Club, Post-Mortem, and Watch Party episodes for our beloved Patreon and Substack subscribers. Find us at artofdarkpod.com.
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The Dark Room: A Max Ernst Apéritif with Will Ballard
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Jun 14, 2026 |
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The Dark Room: Sean Murphy Talks Bukowski as Antidote to the Situation
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Apr 26, 2026 |
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The Dark Room: Mark Vernon Talks Lewis, Barfield, the Inklings, and More
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Apr 26, 2026 |
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The Dark Room: Kelby Losack Talks C.S. Lewis
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Apr 19, 2026 |
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C.S. Lewis: A Jack in the Wardrobe
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Apr 18, 2026 |
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200th Episode Special
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Mar 15, 2026 |
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The Dark Room: Stephen Pimentel Talks Jung, the Magus, Hesse, and More
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Mar 15, 2026 |
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J.R.R. Tolkien Puts a Ring on It
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Mar 14, 2026 |
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The Dark Room: Michael Bakkensen Taps in to Talk Willy Shakes
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Mar 08, 2026 |
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The Dark Room: Brad Kelly Returns to Talk Jung and the Tarot
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Mar 01, 2026 |
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The Dark Room: Forever Jung with Aldous Asterion
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Feb 22, 2026 |
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Carl Jung and the Shadow
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Feb 21, 2026 |
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The Dark Room: American Macabre with Dexter De La Paz
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Feb 15, 2026 |
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The Dark Room: A Court of Thorns and Shakespeares w/ Amanda Forstrom
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Jan 11, 2026 |
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The Dark Room: Samuel Buntz Talks Supernatural Kipling
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Jan 04, 2026 |
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Sigmund Freud & the Cigars You Need to Worry About
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Jan 04, 2026 |
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Audrey Hepburn: Grace & Destiny
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Dec 27, 2025 |
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The Dark Room: Josh David Jordan Talks Tarkovsky and El Tonto Por Cristo
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Dec 21, 2025 |
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Season VI Preview
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Dec 06, 2025 |
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The Dark Room: All of Them Witches w/ Matt Taylor
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Nov 15, 2025 |
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Eugene O'Neill: To Be an Artist or Nothing
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Nov 08, 2025 |
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Merata Mita: The Sky Feels Closer
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Nov 02, 2025 |
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The Dark Room: All Dahl’d Up w/ J.W. van Kaathoven
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Arthur Schopenhauer: Will, Women, Porcupines and Poodles
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Oct 05, 2025 |
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Denis Johnson’s War
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Roald Dahl: Spylife
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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The Dark Room: Kenan Meral Talks Mishima
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Sep 14, 2025 |
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Richard Wagner: Punch & Oysters
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Aug 09, 2025 |
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The Dark Room: Kieran Saint Leonard Talks Crowley, Kubrick & Magic
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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The Dark Room: Ursula K. Le Guin’s 80 Days in the Tent
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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The Dark Room: Terence McKenna with Sumo from MAPS
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Jun 22, 2025 |
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Lee Miller: Life Like the Pictures
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Jun 21, 2025 |
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Pablo Picasso: the Harlequin & the Minotaur
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May 31, 2025 |
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The Dark Room: Jack BC Talks Jünger’s On the Marble Cliffs
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May 05, 2025 |
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Spike Milligan and the Goons
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Apr 19, 2025 |
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The Dark Room: Big Mac McCarthy Talks Hemingway
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Apr 13, 2025 |
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The Dark Room: Rob Ayling Talks Hitchcock
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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The Dark Room: Brian Patrick Eha Rides the Sunset Limited
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Mar 30, 2025 |
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The Dark Room: Matthew Saxe Talks Williams & Beckett
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Mar 09, 2025 |
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Hunter S. Thompson: Freak Power
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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The Dark Room: Matt Warren Talks Rod Serling
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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The Dark Room: Joseph Conrad with R. R. Reno
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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The Dark Room: The Bard in Fresno with Chanticleer Shakespeare Company
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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Special: Method & Madness – My Struggle
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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The Dark Room: Charles Dashings Talks Beckett
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Coco Chanel’s Secret Garden
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Feb 08, 2025 |
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The Dark Room: Denis Johnson with Mark Powell
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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The Dark Room: Yet More Sodom (with Matthew Kelly)
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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Special: Method & Madness – Moby Dick
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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The Dark Room: Rare Bowie with Glen Rockney
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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Marshall McLuhan: Medium Rare
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Jan 12, 2025 |
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A Very Special Season V Preview
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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Hitchcock: Blonde on Blonde
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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The Dark Room: Andrew Wittstadt Talks John Berryman
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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The Dark Room: Brian Patrick Eha Storms Castle Kafka
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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The Dark Room: Sarah Kane with Adam Lehrer
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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Ursula K. Le Guin: True Journey Is Return
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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Fela Kuti: Fearless
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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David Bowie: Infinitely Symbolic
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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The Dark Room: Craving Sarah Kane with Mari Sitner
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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The Dark Room: Marquis de Sade & the Shadow of Enlightenment with James Martell
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Cormac McCarthy: Rumors & Ghosts
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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The Dark Room: David Leo Rice Talks Mishima & Tarkovsky
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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The Dark Room: Jody J Sperling Talks DFW
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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The Dark Room: Kubrick with JF Martel
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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Edward de Vere: The Man from Oxford (Shakespeare Part II)
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Jun 29, 2024 |
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William Shakespeare: Rogues, Vagabonds & Sturdy Beggars (Shakespeare Part I)
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Jun 29, 2024 |
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The Dark Room: Pulp Tales with Dexter De La Paz
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Jun 22, 2024 |
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Sylvia Plath at the Edge
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May 27, 2024 |
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The Dark Room: Matthew Pegas Talks David Foster Wallace
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May 18, 2024 |
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The Dark Room: Aaron Burch on Denis Johnson’s “Largesse”
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May 01, 2024 |
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The Dark Room: Bernard T. Joy Talks Southern Lit
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Apr 27, 2024 |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald Part II: As Great as It Gets
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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[PREVIEW] Marquis de Sade’s Libertine Derangement
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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The Dark Room: Stephanie Lahey on the Many Manuscripts of Dante
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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Reissue: Fitzgerald Part I & Winter Dreams Live in St. Paul, Minnesota
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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The Dark Room: Kate Hext – Wilde in the Dream Factory
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Mar 23, 2024 |
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Flannery O’Connor: The Chickens and the Bees
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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The Dark Room: Anthony Metivier and the Zen of Bill Hicks
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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The Dark Room: Poe with Forest of Symbols
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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Robert E. Howard Crushes His Enemies
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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The Dark Room: Scott Laudati Talks Castañeda
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Feb 11, 2024 |
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John Lennon: Genius of the Lower Crust
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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The Dark Room: Adam Lehrer Talks Mary Shelley
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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William S. Burroughs’ Knockout Drops
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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The Dark Room: Seth Augenstein Talks Mishima
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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The Dark Room: Glen Rockney Talks Poe
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Hermann Hesse: An Egg Without a Shell
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Nina Simone Saves Our Lives
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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The Dark Room: Matt Pegas Talks Crowley
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Dec 02, 2023 |
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Mary Shelley’s Monsters
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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The Dark Room: Jason Gallagher Talks John Milton
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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[PREVIEW] Denis Johnson’s War
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Nov 18, 2023 |
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James Hampton’s Throne
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Edgar Allan Poe’s Wayward Demons
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Samuel Beckett Goes On
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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The Dark Room: Hemingway with Dylan O’Sullivan
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Yukio Mishima’s Reaction
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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The Dark Room: Emily’s Eyes with Godward
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Sep 23, 2023 |
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The Dark Room: At the Mountains of Madness with Matthew Kelly
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Dante Alighieri’s Stars
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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Carlos Castañeda’s Path of the Heart
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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The Dark Room: Bolaño & Borges with Dustin Cole
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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The Dark Room: Johnny Cash with J.L. Mackey
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Aug 13, 2023 |
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John Milton: Party of the Devil
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Viva la Frida Kahlo
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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The Dark Room: Bukowski’s List with Isaac Simpson
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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The Dark Room: Blood Meridian with Aaron Gwyn
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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The Dark Room: Disney & Lovecraft with Laird Barron & Ben Thomas
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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The Dark Room: Garden of Podcast Delights with MJ Dorian
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Emily Dickinson’s Immolation in White
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Charles Bukowski’s Big Low Life with Jason Gallagher
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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The Dark Room: David Leo Rice Talks Faulkner & Lovecraft
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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The Dark Room: Ewan Morrison Talks Tarkovsky
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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Art of Darkness Live: Fitzgerald Part I & Winter Dreams in St. Paul, Minnesota
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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The Dark Room: Lomez Talks Philip K. Dick and Noir
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May 22, 2023 |
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Andrei Tarkovsky & the Sons of Poets
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May 09, 2023 |
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Leni Riefenstahl Dances the Apocalypse
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May 01, 2023 |
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The Dark Room: Adam Lehrer Talks David Foster Wallace
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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The Dark Room: Astral Talks David Foster Wallace
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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The Dark Room: Scott Laudati at the Hotel Chelsea
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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The Dark Room: Seth Michael May Talks Marilyn Monroe
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Borges & the Labyrinth of Mirrors with Aldous Asterion
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Apr 02, 2023 |
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Marilyn Monroe’s Dark Star
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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The Dark Room: Owen Briggs Reads Disney’s Chart
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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David Foster Wallace Plays the Whole Court
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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The Dark Room: Tess Lewis & Jessi Jezewska Stevens on Jünger
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Ernest Hemingway: Out Too Far with Aaron Gwyn
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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The Dark Room: Burroughs Beyond the Word with Matt Pegas
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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Maya Deren’s Anagram of Ideas
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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The Dark Room: Kafka’s Diaries with Ross Benjamin
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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Victor Gruen’s Unexpected Effect
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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The Dark Room: Artaud’s Radiating Images with Monte D. Monteleagre
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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Joseph Conrad’s Unsound Methods
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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The Dark Room: Remembering Gurdjieff with Sam Buntz
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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The Dark Room: Season II Recap
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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The Dark Room: Eyes Wide Shut Watch Party with Dexter De La Paz
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Dec 28, 2022 |
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Gilda Radner’s Hanky Panky Life with Chelsey Smith
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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The Dark Room: TO HAVE DONE WITH THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD by Antonin Artaud adapted by Bad Mouth Theatre Company
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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The Dark Room: Leary & Ram Dass with Kellen Kautzman
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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The Dark Room: Shining Mr. Kubrick with Michael Nathanson
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Dec 17, 2022 |
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Norm MacDonald’s Long Shot with Blake Hammond
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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Emil Cioran’s Short History of Decay with Caleb Caudell
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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Timothy Leary & the Big Game
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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The Dark Room: The Big Lebowski Watch Party with Peachy Keenan
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Nov 20, 2022 |
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The Dark Room: Tommy P. Cowan Talks William S. Burroughs
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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The Dark Room: Godward Talks Philip K. Dick
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Anaïs Nin’s Erotic Trapeze with Gio Pennacchietti
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Aleister Crowley & the Sewer of Creation with Stephanie Lahey
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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The Dark Room: Weird Studies’ Phil Ford Talks MF DOOM
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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John Kennedy Toole’s Edgelord Confederacy with Dan Baltic
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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The Dark Room: Adam Drissi Talks McKenna
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Francis Bacon and the Gilded Gutter with Jacob Everett
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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Terence McKenna’s Heroic Dose with Pineal Colada
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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The Dark Room: Bernard T. Joy Talks Faulkner
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Aug 20, 2022 |
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Ernst Jünger’s Stereoscopic Vision
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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The Dark Room: Ben Thomas Talks Frank Herbert & Dune
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Aug 07, 2022 |
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The Dark Room: The Evil Thespians Talk Artaud
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Jul 31, 2022 |
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The Dark Room: Rap Game Edward Bernays Talks PKD (Philip K. Dick)
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Jul 31, 2022 |
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Philip K. Dick’s Black Iron Prison with Aldous Asterion
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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Artaud’s Body Without Organs with Adam Lehrer
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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The Dark Room: Jaws Watch Party with Jacob Everett
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Jul 10, 2022 |
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The Dark Room: Godward Talks Kafka
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Hieronymus Bosch’s Hell Panel
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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The Dark Room: Astral Bolaño
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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The Dark Room: Gurdjieff with James Ellis
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May 21, 2022 |
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Robert Aickman Against the Machine
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May 19, 2022 |
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The Dark Room: 2001 Watch Party with Dexter De La Paz
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May 16, 2022 |
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The Dark Room: Gerald DeCock’s Hardhat Rate at the Chelsea Hotel
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May 10, 2022 |
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The Dark Room: Svich on Kane
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May 04, 2022 |
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Roberto Bolaño Leaves Before Midnight
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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John Berryman’s Traveling Life with Jason Gallagher
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Night of the Eighteen Drinks at Hotel Chelsea with Michael Bakkensen
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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The Dark Room: A Man in a Hurry, Faulkner with Carl Rollyson
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Mar 13, 2022 |
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H. P. Lovecraft: Architect of the Weird with Ben Thomas
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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The Dark Room: Year Zero Recap
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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The Dark Room: ReJoyce with Aldous Asterion & Aaron Gwyn
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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MF DOOM: Sound Archaeology
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Feb 06, 2022 |
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The Dark Room: Flatline Construct – Burroughs & Kavan with Adam Lehrer
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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The Dark Room: Franz Kafka with Heghoulian
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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The Broken Tiles of Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz
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Jan 09, 2022 |
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The Harmonic Convergence of Bill Hicks
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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The Underbred James Joyce
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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Frank Herbert and the White Witch of Dune
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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The Dark Room: Pamela Colman Smith Redux with Elizabeth Foley O’Connor
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Oct 31, 2021 |
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Walt Disney’s City of Fantasy with Blauer Geist
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Oct 30, 2021 |
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The Dark Room: “What We Got Wrong” 2021 Recap with Michael Bakkensen
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Oct 30, 2021 |
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Zora Neale Hurston: the Collector
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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The Unspeakable Sarah Kane
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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Faulkner’s Suicide Honeymoon with Aaron Gwyn
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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Marlon Brando and the Investigators
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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Johnny Cash in the Sunken Lands
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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Pamela Colman Smith’s Eyes Within
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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Covering the Waterfront with Tennessee Williams
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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Rod Serling’s Spunk
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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The Multitudinous Seas of Virginia Woolf
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May 24, 2021 |
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The Dark Room: Wilde Times with Michael Bakkensen
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May 09, 2021 |
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Franz Kafka Goes to Hot Topic
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May 03, 2021 |
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Stanley Kubrick’s Lidlocks
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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Junior Kimbrough, Lolly Pop and the Hill Country Blues
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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Gurdjieff, the Enneagram and American Canaries
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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Anna Kavan and Her Bazooka
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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Oscar Wilde: The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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William S. Burroughs: Liberalism with a Gun
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Feb 01, 2021 |