Hello listeners! In this episode, Tyler chats with Elliott Kalan, co-host of wildly successful bad movie podcast The Flop House, Emmy Award winning head writer of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and the creative force behind the comics MANIAC OF NEW YORK and MANIAC OF NEW YORK: THE BRONX IS BURNING.
Elliott discusses his earliest inspirations for Maniac Harry, a masked and immortal killer, whose murderous rampages become a semi-regular occurrence/nuisance to New Yorkers, his rules of satire and thoughts on storytelling as a vehicle for social messaging, plus why THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123 is his favorite film and a glorious portrait of '70s New York. Lastly, Elliott gives some insight into the ongoing writer's strike and how to support those most impacted by it.
Links to MANIAC OF NEW YORK and MANIAC OF NEW YORK: THE BRONX IS BURNING
https://www.skylightbooks.com/book/9781949028713
https://www.skylightbooks.com/book/9781956731040
Link to the Entertainment Community Relief Fund:
https://entertainmentcommunity.org/
Produced by Tyler Austin, Mick Kowaleski, & Alena Saunders
Opening music: "Optimism (Instrumental)" by Duck the Piano Wire
Closing music: "Rule of 3s (Solemnity Child)" by Elastic No-No Band
The Better Than the Movie guys will be at the American Cinematheque's FRIEND OF THE FEST! They'll be hosting a screening of Sally Potter's ORLANDO (1992) on Sunday, August 27th, at the Los Feliz 3. It's right next door to Skylight, come hang out and watch a movie with the BTTM gang!
Tickets found here: https://www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/the-skylight-books-podcast-presents-orlando-8-27-23/
SKYLIT: Jonathan Wells, ”THE SKINNY” w/ David St. John
SKYLIT: James Sie, ”ALL KINDS OF OTHER”
SKYLIT: Darrel J. McLeod, ”PEYAKOW”
SKYLIT: Rafia Zakaria, ”AGAINST WHITE FEMINISM”
SKYLIT: Shugri Said Salh, ”THE LAST NOMAD”
SKYLIT: Camille Roy, ”HONEY MINE” w/ Michelle Tea
SKYLIT: Margret Grebowicz, ”MOUNTAINS AND DESIRE”
SKYLIT: Lucy J Santos, ”HALF LIVES”
SKYLIT: Alix Ohlin, ”WE WANT WHAT WE WANT”
SKYLIT: NYU Poetry Program Reading
SKYLIT: Keenan Norris, "THE CONFESSION OF COPELAND CANE" w/ Tongo Eisen-Martin
SKYLIT: Jon Hale, "THE CHOICE WE FACE" w/ Eddie Cole
SKYLIT: Nawaaz Ahmed, "RADIANT FUGITIVES" w/ Natashia Deón
SKYLIT: Benjamin Hedin, "UNDER THE SPELL" w/ Maaza Mengiste
SKYLIT: Pedro Mairal, "THE WOMAN FROM URUGUAY" w/ Jennifer Croft
SKYLIT: Allyson Brantley, "BREWING A BOYCOTT"
SKYLIT: Marissa Levien, "THE WORLD GIVES WAY"
SKYLIT: Brenda Miller, "A BRAIDED HEART" w/ Susanne Paola Antonetta
SKYLIT: Beth Morgan, "A TOUCH OF JEN"
SKYLIT: Calvin Leonard, "FOR THE LOVE OF FILM"
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