Literature: The Fat Guy by Henry Roth
MOTS Ado About Nothing reviews a short story about what some people will do for a little bit of fame. It’s The Fat Guy by Henry Roth.
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Literature: A&P by John Updike
In this episode, we review the John Updike short story about a kid who watches some girls in bathing suits wander around a store. It’s called A&P.
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Literature: The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft
For the final installment of MOTS Ado Halloween 2016, we attempt to wrestle with insanity-inducing indescribable things in a ‘cosmic horror’ story from the progenitor of the genre.
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Literature: The Boogeyman by Stephen King
In this second installment of MOTS Ado for the 2016 Halloween season, we journey into the dark reaches of one man’s closet of horrors in Stephen King’s “The Boogeyman.” Is there actually a monster lurking in the dark or is it only in the mind of a broken man?
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AFI Top 100 #074: The Silence of the Lambs
Join us for dinner and a movie in a special Halloween episode of The AFI 100. Whether you prefer to flay or to fillet your victims, our discussion of the classic thriller, The Silence of the Lambs, will surely whet your appetite. [Aggregate score: 10]
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Literature: The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe
MOTS Ado starts off the 2016 Halloween season with the first of a series of horror short stories. In this episode, we discuss a classic tale from one of the all-time masters of the craft- Edgar Allen Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death.
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AFI Top 100 #065: The African Queen
The MOTS crew travels up the river on “The African Queen.” Love boat or torpedo boat? Listen and find out. [Aggregate score: 4.6]
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Literature: Lich-House by Warren Ellis
Steven Ormosi evokes William Shatner as he hosts Veronica Hernandez, Scott Thurlow and Jonathan Ian Manczur in a discussion of “Lich-House” by Warren Ellis, a speculative future story involving “smart-houses.”
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Literature: Myth Manners’ Guide to Greek Missology #1 by Harry Turtledove
Steven Ormosi hosts, and apologizes during, this discussion of Harry Turtledove’s parody on a Greek Myth with cultural references nearly as old as the original story itself.
With Katie Kelly, Veronica Hernandez, Scott Thurlow and Jonathan Ian Manczur.
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Literature: Feliz Aniversário by Clarice Lispector
The Lost Signals crew discusses age, birthday cake and death at obligatory family functions in their discussion of Clarice Lispector’s short story “Feliz Aniversário.”
Veronica Hernandez hosting Katie Kelly, Jonathan Ian Manczur, Steven Ormosi and Scott Thurlow
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