Keeping film brain out of literature. Anti-adaptation. Not all content is art. How to stop the Joker. ODDITY. PULSE. Books about cultivation and dragons. Update/teaser on publishing Adam Lehrer's next novel. What makes great art. Shop talk. Fences and parking lots. Who will save you from drowning? Support the show and get access to the full archive plus bonus content at patreon.com/agitator More on our writing: brokenriverbooks.com

The whitest Agitators you know (JDO and Eddy Rathke) bring you this episode in Kelby's absence. Talking: the pros and cons of ****, Tsutomu Nihei's Tower Dungeon, the Chinese genres Wuxia and Xianxia, Wuxiaworld, a reminder to leave the writing community, book clubs with HVAC techs, cultivation novels, what non-writers are looking for from writing, and more. Subscribe to Eddy's Substack: radicaledward.substack.com

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Kelby and JDO discuss Takashi Miike's Lumberjack the Monster, Jeremy Saulnier's Rebel Ridge, and Tim Burton's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice + the return of oil paintings as cover art, masculine rites of passage, grifters vs doers, being red-pilled vs just being normal, assassination attempts, and plenty of craft, marketing, and publishing talk. We're so back. brokenriverbooks.com