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GFP #55B – Fractals

October 2, 2017 by Olivia Hofer Leave a Comment

Listen to the podcast in the player above, or subscribe via iTunes, GooglePlay or Stitcher. What the heck is “Garage Fiction”? Since January 2015, a small group of storytellers committed to writing a piece of fiction every week… and then getting on a podcast to talk about it.

SUMMARY:

What needs to happen in this moment? Just do that.

Dave exposes his ‘underpinnings’. Anthony gets to tend the rabbits. And Bryan becomes overwhelmed by micro structure.

GFP #55B - Fractals

MEDIA MENTIONED ON THIS EPISODE:
Children of Earth and Sky by Guy Gavriel Kay
The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat
Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb
The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
Nier video game
Haibane Renmei animated series
Azumanga Daioh animated series

HONOURABLE MENTIONS:
Carl Jung
J RR Tolkien
Umberto Eco
Jonathan Franzen

END CREDITS:
• Our awesome theme song was written by Stephanie and Jonathan Hughes. Check out their latest album here
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GFP #55A – Cthulu Pizza

August 11, 2017 by Olivia Hofer Leave a Comment

Listen to the podcast in the player above, or subscribe via iTunes, GooglePlay or Stitcher. What the heck is “Garage Fiction”? Since January 2015, a small group of storytellers committed to writing a piece of fiction every week… and then getting on a podcast to talk about it.

SUMMARY:
How do you revise your work?

On this episode:
John reveals his global pizza elitism. Jinn wants a Cthulu story he actually likes reading. Olivia wonders what King would be doing if he wasn’t writing. Lauren gushes over Laini Taylor.

GFP #55A - Cthulu Pizza

MEDIA MENTIONED ON THIS EPISODE:
On Writing – Stephen King
American Pie – Peter Reinhart
Kitchen Confidential – Anthony Bourdain
Waiter Rant – Steve Dublanica
Ballad of Black Tom – Victor LaValle
Works of H.P. Lovecraft
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
Scarlet Letter – Nathanial Hawthorne
The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
Perdido Street Station – China Miéville
Thinner – Richard Bachman
It – Stephen King
East of Eden – John Steinbeck
Strange the Dreamer – Laini Taylor
Deathless – Catherynne M. Valente
Wonderbook – Jeff VanderMeer

END CREDITS:
• Our awesome theme song was written by Stephanie and Jonathan Hughes. Check out their latest album here
• Like this podcast? We’d love for you to subscribe and rate us on iTunes, GooglePlay or Stitcher.
• Come chat with us on Facebook
• You can always email us your thoughts, comments and feedback at garagefictionfeedback(AT)gmail(DOT)com

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GFP #54B – Fundamentally Human

August 2, 2017 by Olivia Hofer Leave a Comment

Listen to the podcast in the player above, or subscribe via iTunes, GooglePlay or Stitcher. What the heck is “Garage Fiction”? Since January 2015, a small group of storytellers committed to writing a piece of fiction every week… and then getting on a podcast to talk about it.

SUMMARY:
Sorry, folks. There are no shortcuts to enlightenment.

On this episode: Bryan calls everyone’s ‘character’ into question. Anthony fills the pipeline. And Dave considers going back in fictional time to erase make-believe people.

GFP #54B - Fundamentally Human

MEDIA MENTIONED ON THIS EPISODE:
The Expanse book series by James S.A. Corey
The Gunslinger by Stephen King
Lauris by Eugene Vodolazkin
WORLD END ECONOMiCA by Isuna Hasekura
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan (and Brandon Sanderson)
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky
Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
The Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson
A Song of Ice and Fire series by George RR Martin
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Alamut by Vladimir Bartol
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Major Arcana (unpublished) by Dave Dixon
Alyosha the Pot by Leo Tolstoy

Honourable Mentions:
Carl Jung
Thomas Pynchon
J RR Tolkien
Star Wars Movies
The Pacific television mini-series
Band of Brothers television mini-series
Daredevil television series
Bruce Lee
Neon Genesis Evangelion television series
The Professional Movie
Monogatari series

END CREDITS:
• Our awesome theme song was written by Stephanie and Jonathan Hughes. Check out their latest album here
• Like this podcast? We’d love for you to subscribe and rate us on iTunes, GooglePlay or Stitcher.
• Come chat with us on Facebook
• You can always email us your thoughts, comments and feedback at garagefictionfeedback(AT)gmail(DOT)com

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GFP #54A – I Heart Cathy Ames

July 31, 2017 by Olivia Hofer Leave a Comment

Listen to the podcast in the player above, or subscribe via iTunes, GooglePlay or Stitcher. What the heck is “Garage Fiction”? Since January 2015, a small group of storytellers committed to writing a piece of fiction every week… and then getting on a podcast to talk about it.

SUMMARY:
Do you like books that make up their own language?

On this episode: Olivia can’t deal with drunken Scottish, Nadsat and Valleymen. Lauren gives some useful time-travelling advice. Jinn decides to learn everything in the universe.

GFP #54A - I Heart Cathy Ames

Media mentioned on this episode:
East of Eden – John Steinbeck
Superconductivity: A Very Short Introduction – Stephen J. Blundell
Thermodynamics: A Very Short Introduction – Peter Atkins
Catholicism: A Very Short Introduction – Gerald O’Collins
Paganism: A Very Short Introduction – Owen Davies
Modern China: A Very Short Introduction – Rana Mitter
Strangers in Their Own Land – Arlie Russell Hochschild
Hillbilly Elegy – J. D. Vance
White Trash – Nancy Isenberg
Dubliners – James Joyce
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
The Matrix – dir. Wachowski Brothers
Lost: The TV Series – created by Jeffrey Lieber, J. J. Abrams & Damon Lindelof
Leviathan Wakes – James S. A. Corey
The Expanse – dev. Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby

END CREDITS:
• Our awesome theme song was written by Stephanie and Jonathan Hughes. Check out their latest album here
• Like this podcast? We’d love for you to subscribe and rate us on iTunes, GooglePlay or Stitcher.
• Come chat with us on Facebook
• You can always email us your thoughts, comments and feedback at garagefictionfeedback(AT)gmail(DOT)com

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GFP #53B – The Moment That Opens Your Brain

July 21, 2017 by Lauren McNeil Leave a Comment

Listen to the podcast in the player above, or subscribe via iTunes, GooglePlay or Stitcher. What the heck is “Garage Fiction”? Since January 2015, a small group of storytellers committed to writing a piece of fiction every week… and then getting on a podcast to talk about it.

SUMMARY: Who doesn’t root for the axe murderer?

On this episode: We learn that, in addition to being a whole lot of fun at parties, Dave is also celebrated for his movie-going fun. Old English makes Anthony giggle like a school boy (Forsooth!). And Bryan burns any possible chance he may have ever had of becoming Stephen King’s friend.

GFP #53B - The Moment That Opens Your Brain

MEDIA MENTIONED ON THIS EPISODE:
Caliban’s War by James S.A. Corey
The Gunslinger by Stephen King
Peace by Gene Wolfe
Lauris by Eugene Vodolazkin
WORLD END ECONOMiCA by Isuna Hasekura
Beyond Culture by Edward T. Hall
Creative Mythology and The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Hyperion, Ilium, and Olympos by Dan Simmons
Dune by Frank Herbert
Invisible Ink: A Practical Guide to Building Stories that Resonate by Brian McDonald
The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield

Honourable Mentions:
Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung
Thomas Pynchon
William Gaddis
300 Movie
Spartacus TV Series
Unforgiven Movie

END CREDITS:
• Our awesome theme song was written by Stephanie and Jonathan Hughes. Check out their latest album here
• Like this podcast? We’d love for you to subscribe and rate us on iTunes, GooglePlay or Stitcher.
• Come chat with us on Facebook
• You can always email us your thoughts, comments and feedback at garagefictionfeedback(AT)gmail(DOT)com

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