Thousand Movie Project

Wherein the narrator, after a couple months away working at a grocery store, and finishing up a new book, and flipping things on eBay, recounts a new routine. email: thousandmovieproject[at]gmail ebay: https://www.ebay.com/str/viewfromthebar

Previously a locked, exclusive episode, this is a conversation I had with Steve Donoghue in 2021 about biographies, Kissinger, Facebook, and the novel Jane Austen didn't actually write. email: thousandmovieproject[at]gmail support the show: patreon.com/thousandmovieproject

Wherein the narrator talks about trying to figure out what went on in strangers' lives by sifting through second-hand items, the importance of going outside and walking around, and a new job opportunity. email: thousandmovieproject[at]gmail support the show: www.patreon.com/thousandmovieproject

Wherein the narrator, excited and then upset with his Goodreads Year in Review, stumbles for the first time upon an uncensored copy of the Zapruder film. follow me on goodreads!: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2596190-alex-s email: thousandmovieproject[at]gmail patreon: www.patreon.com/thousandmovieproject

A friendly and accessible read-along and analysis of THE GREAT GATSBY, Chapter One, meant to hopefully break down some of the book's motifs, metaphors, symbols and themes in an accessible way. email: thousandmovieproject[at]gmail patreon: www.patreon.com/thousandmovieproject

Wherein the narrator looks back on the highs and lows of 2022, and pitches some resolutions for the coming year -- and also dishes emphatic thanks to everyone who's made Thousand Movie Project Podcast a part of their rotation in 2022. email: thousandmovieproject[at]gmail

Wherein the narrator, a newborn thrifter, recounts his very brief tenure at the no-good very bad upscale Miami Beach restaurant. email: thousandmovieproject[at]gmail patreon: www.patreon.com/thousandmovieproject

Wherein the narrator talks about diving back into CUBATOOTH, editing the first draft, and about his recent reading of Cormac McCarthy's new pair of novels, THE PASSENGER & STELLA MARIS. email: thousandmovieproject[at][gmail] patreon: www.patreon.com/thousandmovieproject

Wherein the narrator riffs about presidents from the 1920s and the question of how we will someday buy "space" in space. PATREON: patreon.com/thousandmovieproject

Wherein the narrator, after eight months of research, tests the extent of his knowledge about the 1920s before jumping into a new project. PATREON: www.patreon.com/thousandmovieproject

Wherein the narrator meditates on a recent New Yorker article about "Moms for Liberty."

Wherein the narrator, still on the topic of spooky things for the month of October, explains his fears of needing to poop in traffic, the way Elmore Leonard and Louis L'Amour shot people, and recounts some facts from the ongoing research around his newly-finished book: stuff about the slave trade, witchcraft, and why JSTOR is the intellectual's thriftshop. PATREON: www.patreon.com/thousandmoviepro...

Wherein the narrator, talking about the new HALLOWEEN movie, digresses into how he thought, as a kid, that every "author" was a single man named "Arthur," and also took a really long time to learn anything.

Wherein the narrator commences 2022's EHPOKY COMBERSACION series on Halloweenish topics for the month of October, including night terrors, a restless pitbull, and the new movie BARBARIAN, which is great.

Wherein the narrator meditates on what a terrible detective or lawyer he would be, had his life gone that rout, and then enumarates on how terrible a restaurant worker he is at present -- and the workplace bully who's keen to remind him.

Wherein the narrator riffs, belatedly, about the new Leonard Cohen documentary and signs off on the last of those I'm-still-switching-apartments episodes.

In which the narrator talks with the best-selling and award-winning novelist Meg Gardiner about her latest book, HEAT 2, a collaboration with filmmaker Michael Mann that sequelizes and prequelizes his 1995 crime epic, HEAT, starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, and Val Kilmer. Here's a link to my favorite interview with Meg Gardiner, on THE STORY BLENDER podcast: https://www.thestoryblender.com/past...

Wherein the narrator, gabbing from his car while driving down memory lane, riffs on his last night alone, in the Little Havana apartment, plus Lemony Snicket, minimum wage, and celebrations.

Wherein the narrator buckles down and reads from his study guide for a forthcoming beer test, and digresses at will because it's very difficult and he would rather not -- it also keeps reminding him of things.

Wherein the narrator finally investigates why he's been indulging a hush-hush impulse to horde and preserve a bunch of things that would look much better in the garbage.

Wherein the narrator gets a new job and tries to eat a burger shortly after a Novocaine injection.

Wherein the narrator gets a root canal that is very unpleasant but made much worse by the rootcanalist.

Wherein the narrator riffs about a Brickell native.

Wherein the narrator, smitten with a very busy month full of good things, caps it off by interviewing one of his all-time favorite (and most personally influential) novelists, Don Winslow, about his new novel, CITY ON FIRE (which is absolutely incredible, and on whose recommendation I will stake my reputation). Buy CITY ON FIRE here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B094SHMHBB/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_enc...

Whereing the narrator, thinking this'll just be a hodgepodge episode, talks for a while about his post-book creative position, bingeing coverage of Putin's war in Ukraine, and riffs openly about his excitement for the new Cormac McCarthy releases---PERO THEN: while editing the episode he gets an upsetting email, hops back on the mic, and wallows (publicly).