Ep 122: The Sore Thumb Crisis, ft. Ernie Hilbert, Pt. 1

 
 

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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

Storm Swimmer by Ernest Hilbert

The iTunes/Apple Podcasts SLEERICKETS page

The cover of my forthcoming book, Midlife, designed by Daniel

Rattle/Rattlecast/Timothy Green (the guy we’re talking about at the beginning of the show)

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

– The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Laud Montgomery

A Colorful History of Judging Books by their Covers by Ernest Hilbert

The Shocking Novels that Scared the Hell Out of America by Ernest Hilbert

Lupercal by Ted Hughes

Sixty Sonnets by Ernest Hilbert

All of You on the Good Earth Ernest Hilbert

– Caligulan by Ernest Hilbert

Last One Out by Ernest Hilbert

Easter Wings by George Herbert

– The Convergence of the Twain by Thomas Hardy

Maxwell Perkins

Wave Books

Faber & Faber

Matthew Wright

The Philadelphia Sun Oil Building

Jantech Services (makers of the Caligulan sign)

Ernie’s introduction to Classic Tales of Horror

The Alien title sequence

Blizzard of One by Mark Strand

Franco Salas Borquez

Anamorphosis

The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger

The Richard Wilbur Award

The New Criterion Poetry Prize

– Waywiser Books

Laid paper

Alice: Poetry Says

Brian: @BPlatzer

Cameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] com

Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com

Music by ETRNL

Art by Daniel Alexander Smith

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Joshua Mehigan

Shane McCrae

A. E. Stallings

Ryan Wilson

Austin Allen

Jonathan Farmer

Zara Raab

Ethan McGuire

Coleman Glenn

Alexis Sears

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