It's double trouble as Karl and Søren tackle two film adaptations of books from the boys' mystery cycle: Carl Franklin's 1995 neo-noir version of Devil in a Blue Dress, starring Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle, and Jennifer Beals; and Nicholas Ray's 1950 version of In a Lonely Place, with Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame.
After discussing how widely Ray's film departs from Dorothy B. Hughes' novel, they talk about various technical aspects: Franklin's love of tracking shots, Devil's musical juxtaposition, Don Cheadle's charisma, and whether Bogey is a good actor or merely a good movie star (scandal!).
A Slight Eructation of the Valve (John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces)
An Astonishing Parade of Nullity (Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman)
A Podcast of Things in General (Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus + Mt. Dew Flaming Hot)
In the Sand and on the Rocks (Dorothy B. Hughes’ In a Lonely Place)
When the Voice Speaks, I Listen (Walter Mosley’s Devil in a Blue Dress)
There Still Remains the Cocaine-Bottle (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Sign of Four)
Smoking Cigarettes While the World Burns (Yukio Mishima’s The Temple of the Golden Pavilion)
A Bicephalous Old Tumater Woman (Walter M. Miller Jr.’s A Canticle for Leibowitz)
Epochs on Both Your Houses (Herman Hesse’s Narcissus and Goldmund, Plus Postmodern Food Factory ”Crap Sampler”)
The Key to the Shaft of the Abyss (The Name of the Rose Days 5, 6, and 7)
The Name of the Star Is Wormwood (The Name of the Rose Days 3+4)
Bonus Episode: The Grand Inquisitor
There Came Hail and Fire Mixed with Blood (The Name of the Rose Days 1+2)
Unrest in Visited Tombs (W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn + Bud Light Ugly Sweater Pack)
The Readers Karamazov, Podcasters of Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote (Jorge Luis Borges‘ ”Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote” and ”The Library of Babel”
Who Watches De Watchman? (Michelle Cliff‘s No Telephone to Heaven)
A Caramel Apple Bobbing in Furmity (Thomas Hardy‘s The Mayor of Casterbridge + Red Hot Riplets Caramel Apple)
One of Those Headgears of Composite Order (Gustave Flaubert‘s Madame Bovary)
The Sea‘s Soft, Close Embrace (Kate Chopin‘s The Awakening)
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