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The Dead Authors Podcast
Legendary time-traveling writer H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) welcomes literary giants to The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles for a lively discussion in front of a live audience. Unscripted, barely researched, all fun! Guests include Andy Richter, Maya Rudolph, Matt Gourley, Andy Daly, Scott Aukerman, John Ross Bowie and many more! Follow us on Twitter: @DeadAuthorPod. For more information on The Echo Park Time Travel Mart and 826LA’s many tutoring and writing programs, visit 826LA.org.Podcasts
Chapter 50: L. Frank Baum, featuring Chris Tallman
Published: Dec. 31, 2015, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 37 seconds
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Preface: Henry Miller and Sylvia Plath, featuring Eddie Pepitone and Jen Kirkman
Published: Dec. 28, 2015, 8 a.m.Duration: 47 minutes 7 seconds
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Chapter 49: Albert Camus, featuring Steve Agee
Published: Aug. 18, 2015, 5:48 p.m.Duration: 56 minutes 53 seconds
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Addendum vi: Beatrix Potter, featuring Lauren Lapkus
Published: Aug. 14, 2015, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 5 seconds
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Addendum v: William Butler Yeats, featuring David Rees
Published: Aug. 7, 2015, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 51 seconds
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Addendum iv: Lucy Maud Montgomery, featuring Ryan Beil
Published: July 31, 2015, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 17 seconds
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Addendum iii: Aleister Crowley, featuring Matt Gourley
Published: July 24, 2015, 7 a.m.Duration: 49 minutes 14 seconds
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Addendum ii: Christopher Marlowe, featuring Matt Gourley
Published: July 17, 2015, 7 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 54 seconds
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Chapter 48: Maya Angelou, featuring Tymberlee Hill
Published: July 14, 2015, 9:59 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 51 seconds
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Addendum i: Lewis Carroll, featuring Rory Scovel
Published: July 10, 2015, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 18 seconds
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Chapter 45 [Part 2]: L. Ron Hubbard, featuring Andy Daly
Published: June 30, 2015, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 27 seconds
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Chapter 47: Mark Twain
Published: June 23, 2015, 7 a.m.Duration: 49 minutes 46 seconds
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Chapter 46: Hans Christian Andersen, featuring Joe Wengert
Published: May 19, 2015, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 16 seconds
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Chapter 45 [Part 1]: L. Ron Hubbard, featuring Andrew Daly
Published: April 14, 2015, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 32 seconds
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Chapter 44: Confucius, featuring Eugene Cordero
Published: March 17, 2015, 3:18 a.m.Duration: 56 minutes 40 seconds
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Chapter 43: Iceberg Slim, featuring Ron Funches
Published: Feb. 26, 2015, 3:58 p.m.Duration: 53 minutes 32 seconds
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Chapter 42: Miguel de Cervantes, featuring Horatio Sanz
Published: Jan. 27, 2015, 8 a.m.Duration: 54 minutes 54 seconds
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Appendix H: Hunter S. Thompson and Philip K. Dick, featuring James Adomian and Matt Besser
Published: Jan. 16, 2015, 8 a.m.Duration: 46 minutes 46 seconds
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Chapter 41: Dr. Seuss, featuring Hal Lublin
Published: Dec. 24, 2014, 2:17 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 26 seconds
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Appendix G: F. Scott Fitzgerald and James Joyce, featuring Andy Daly and Sean Conroy
Published: Dec. 5, 2014, 8 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 20 seconds
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Chapter 40: Virginia Woolf, featuring Mary Holland
Published: Nov. 20, 2014, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 59 seconds
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Appendix F: Ernest Hemingway and Sun Tzu, featuring Josh Fadem and Fred Armisen
Published: Nov. 7, 2014, 8 a.m.Duration: 49 minutes 31 seconds
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Chapter 39: Flannery O'Connor, featuring Lennon Parham
Published: Oct. 21, 2014, 7 a.m.Duration: 54 minutes 26 seconds
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Chapter 38: Ian Fleming, featuring Matt Gourley
Published: Oct. 9, 2014, 7 a.m.Duration: 56 minutes 47 seconds
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Appendix E: Lord Byron and Norman Mailer, featuring Dana Gould and Frank Conniff
Published: Oct. 3, 2014, 7 a.m.Duration: 54 minutes 50 seconds
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Appendix D: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. and Erma Bombeck, featuring Seth Morris and Brian Huseky
Published: Sept. 25, 2014, 6:17 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 9 seconds
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Chapter 37: Truman Capote, featuring Jessica Chaffin
Published: Aug. 14, 2014, 10:04 p.m.Duration: 54 minutes 56 seconds
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Appendix C: Edgar Allan Poe and J.D. Salinger, featuring Craig Cackowski and Marc Evan Jackson
Published: Aug. 5, 2014, 7 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 32 seconds
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Chapter 36: Ralph Ellison, featuring DeMorge Brown
Published: July 30, 2014, 12:33 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 32 seconds
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Chapter 35: Oscar Wilde, featuring Jon Daly
Published: June 17, 2014, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 56 seconds
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Chapter 34: Roald Dahl, featuring Ben Schwartz
Published: May 30, 2014, 12:16 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 55 seconds
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Chapter 30: William Faulkner, featuring Thomas Lennon
Published: May 13, 2014, 7 a.m.Duration: 55 minutes 40 seconds
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Chapter 33: Rod Serling, featuring John Ross Bowie
Published: April 15, 2014, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 44 seconds
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Chapter 32: E. Gary Gygax, featuring Chris Tallman
Published: March 19, 2014, 11:51 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 50 seconds
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Chapter 31: Anne Frank, featuring Jamie Denbo
Published: Feb. 18, 2014, 10:05 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 38 seconds
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Chapter 29: Clement Clarke Moore and Irving Berlin, featuring Scott Aukerman and Neil Campbell
Published: Dec. 18, 2013, 1:25 a.m.Duration: 53 minutes 53 seconds
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Chapter 28: Walt Whitman, featuring James Adomian
Published: Dec. 3, 2013, 8 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 57 seconds
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Chapter 27: Tennessee Williams, featuring Kristen Schaal
Published: Nov. 26, 2013, 8 a.m.Duration: 55 minutes 36 seconds
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Chapter 26: William S. Burroughs, featuring Kurt Braunohler
Published: Nov. 19, 2013, 9 p.m.Duration: 53 minutes 59 seconds
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Chapter 25: Shel Silverstein, featuring Mark McConville
Published: Nov. 12, 2013, 10:06 a.m.Duration: 53 minutes 27 seconds
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Chapter 24: Plato, featuring Jason Mantzoukas
Published: Nov. 5, 2013, 8 a.m.Duration: 48 minutes 26 seconds
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Chapter 23: Charlotte Bronte, featuring Jessica St. Clair
Published: Oct. 29, 2013, 7 a.m.Duration: 51 minutes 45 seconds
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Chapter 22: Edgar Rice Burroughs, featuring Chris Tallman
Published: Oct. 22, 2013, 7 a.m.Duration: 55 minutes 10 seconds
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Chapter 21: Joseph Campbell, featuring Jeremy Carter
Published: Oct. 15, 2013, 4:44 a.m.Duration: 57 minutes 35 seconds
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Chapter 20: Ayn Rand, featuring John Hodgman
Published: June 20, 2013, 4:28 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 35 seconds
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Chapter 2: Robert Louis Stevenson, featuring Andy Daly
Published: May 13, 2013, 5:49 p.m.Duration: 52 minutes 24 seconds
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Chapter 18: Brendan Behan, featuring Brian Stack
Published: May 1, 2013, 5:45 p.m.Duration: 56 minutes 7 seconds
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Chapter 17: Agatha Christie, featuring Jessica Chaffin
Published: April 16, 2013, 7 a.m.Duration: 56 minutes 9 seconds
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Chapter 16: Gore Vidal, featuring Marc Evan Jackson
Published: April 2, 2013, 7 a.m.Duration: 53 minutes 46 seconds
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Chapter 15: The Marquis de Sade, featuring Andy Daly
Published: March 25, 2013, 3:30 p.m.Duration: 53 minutes 8 seconds
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Chapter 14: Abbie Hoffman, featuring Jen Kirkman
Published: Jan. 22, 2013, 8 a.m.Duration: 54 minutes 5 seconds
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Chapter 13: The Brothers Grimm, featuring Jeremy Carter and Matt Gourley
Published: Dec. 31, 2012, 8 a.m.Duration: 56 minutes 52 seconds
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Chapter 19: The Authors of The Gospels, featuring Craig Cackowski, Mark Gagliardi, Hal Lublin and Matt Gourley
Published: Dec. 24, 2012, 8 a.m.Duration: 53 minutes 26 seconds
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Chapter 12: Mary Shelley, featuring Laraine Newman
Published: Oct. 31, 2012, 7 a.m.Duration: 53 minutes 42 seconds
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Chapter 11: J.R.R. Tolkien, featuring Matt Walsh
Published: Oct. 23, 2012, 7 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 41 seconds
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Chapter 10: Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring Chris Tallman
Published: Oct. 12, 2012, 7 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 31 seconds
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Chapter 9: Jorge Luis Borges, featuring Nick Kroll
Published: July 25, 2012, 12:33 a.m.Duration: 51 minutes 2 seconds
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Chapter 8: Aesop, featuring Mark McConville
Published: May 29, 2012, 5:54 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 19 seconds
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Appendix B: Friederich Nietzsche and H.P. Lovecraft, featuring James Adomian and Paul Scheer
Published: May 1, 2012, 7 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 16 seconds
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Chapter 7: P.G. Wodehouse, featuring Brian Stack
Published: March 20, 2012, 7 a.m.Duration: 52 minutes 1 second
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Chapter 6: Gertrude Stein, featuring John Ross Bowie
Published: Feb. 14, 2012, 8 a.m.Duration: 51 minutes 48 seconds
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Chapter 5: Carl Sagan, featuring Matt Gourley
Published: Jan. 17, 2012, 8 a.m.Duration: 49 minutes 17 seconds
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Appendix A: Charles Dickens and O. Henry, featuring Hal Lublin and Marc Evan Jackson
Published: Dec. 20, 2011, 8 a.m.Duration: 46 minutes 44 seconds
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Chapter 4: Benjamin Franklin, featuring Scott Aukerman
Published: Dec. 6, 2011, 5:30 a.m.Duration: 47 minutes 8 seconds
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Chapter 3: Dorothy Parker, featuring Jen Kirkman
Published: Nov. 8, 2011, 8 a.m.Duration: 48 minutes 5 seconds
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Chapter 1: Emily Dickinson, featuring Andy Richter
Published: Sept. 20, 2011, 7 a.m.Duration: 43 minutes 24 seconds
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