S8E17: Mechanical Alien with Chandler Morrison
Added 2024-05-14 07:54:34 +0000 UTCAuthor Chandler Morrison and Bret discuss publishing fiction outside the corporate sphere, the fallout from a bizarre trip to Portland and finding a girl with the moon in her eye at a Cleveland tanning salon.
Comments
It sucks that Morrison wants to run away so hard from his crowning achievement Dead Inside. He wears his disdain for that book like a badge of honor. Saying he “out Oppenheimer’s Oppenheimer,” by trying to distance himself from it… I still plan on dedicating my necrophile book to him once I finish it. I’m grinning already knowing how bad he will loathe that lol.
Otis Bateman
2025-02-28 22:28:18 +0000 UTCI love it when Bret interviews, or talks about, a writer I never heard of, and I am compelled to read them after. Great interview, Bret.
Joe Stallone
2024-09-11 18:44:44 +0000 UTCManaged to read 80 pages of American Narcissususus. Reads like a reworking of the Informers for a Mills and Boon publication. Might appeal more to my mother or wife.
Clint Flicker
2024-07-10 01:16:14 +0000 UTCSee, I just love Bret but it always intrigues me when he decides to pick comfort over real experiences (going to a bookstore, a movie..). Doesn't it contradict the nostalgia of the "true experience" he so fondly talks about in these episodes? Great episode!
Laura B. Farrugia
2024-05-29 10:54:27 +0000 UTCGreat episode. Really enjoying the podcast.
Liska
2024-05-22 21:29:35 +0000 UTCHis trauma is his currency.
Travis Films
2024-05-22 19:39:21 +0000 UTCThis guy was a little too hung up on ex girlfriends. He was pining over a chick he dated only seven months?! As Don Corleone said, “you can act like a man!” Interesting guy though. I wish him well.
Tommy Stronach
2024-05-22 16:32:51 +0000 UTCSomething tells me BEE will watch Megalopolis, but not on an IMAX screen, and not til it's $4.99 on rental services
David Morgan-Brown
2024-05-21 08:52:28 +0000 UTCStarted reading Chandler’s book with no expectations - laughed very hard within the first few pages. Fans of BEE will definitely like it. Almost done and it’s terrific. Very dark and funny.
Tim Molloy
2024-05-21 01:53:12 +0000 UTCCracked up at the Bizarrocon story
Thomas Rankin
2024-05-20 20:35:42 +0000 UTCGreat stuff!
Sander August Schadenberg
2024-05-20 14:55:58 +0000 UTCI hope Bret talks MEGALOPOLIS this week: Is he excited? Will he see it in theaters? IMAX? (IMAX has made a global commitment to show the film) Does he think the studios are really salty, jealous, and trying to sabotage the release because Coppola self-funded and they wont be seeing any of the $$$ if it's successful? LONGLEGS also looks potentially good. The trailer is really good. Maika Monroe is a solid actress. She was great recently in GOD IS A BULLET. I wonder if it has dawned on Bret with all this talk about how ancient he is now (Cryptkeeper cackle) that 60 qualifies for the senior discount at some theaters.
R. M.
2024-05-20 04:19:48 +0000 UTCExcellent episode
PETER GREER
2024-05-18 20:20:33 +0000 UTCAgree. Best podcasts are authors.
Michael Austin
2024-05-18 08:26:46 +0000 UTCBot account, definitely.
Jonathan Davis
2024-05-18 04:06:52 +0000 UTC“Shut up, Adam!” That was awesome. 😂
Patrick
2024-05-17 23:37:33 +0000 UTCGood episode. Authors make the best guests IMO.
Peter Guzzo
2024-05-17 18:58:12 +0000 UTCSo good! Thoughtful, concise, entertaining answers, especially to the last question. Thank You
Shawn Kilroy
2024-05-17 13:18:16 +0000 UTCGood chat with an interesting guy. Won't be reading the books, not my thing, and it would have been interesting to hear more about how he fits having a day job around writing and what sober life is like. Oh, and Bret will *hate* Constellations - hate it!
GC
2024-05-17 09:08:38 +0000 UTCGreat episode! I enjoyed hearing about the publishing days of old. I'm excited to hear about The Frog King movie project script coming back into play. Hopefully, it gets made!
Darren
2024-05-17 05:39:11 +0000 UTCReally enjoying this guest. Smart and very like able. I shall kindle his new book. I hope his health issues work out, stay strong brother.
David Willis
2024-05-17 05:36:18 +0000 UTCI read a sample of his book and I was like, oh, this sounds like this other guy I read from Eraserhead press.... looks like I was spot on. Eraserhead has so many fake reviews on amazon especially for that Sh!tburger book guy.
Poetical Gore
2024-05-17 03:41:15 +0000 UTCThis was a very good episode. I feel for Morrison regarding his illness and really hope he prevails.
Benjamin Wayne
2024-05-17 01:51:37 +0000 UTCI know, it’s embarrassing- but at least I didn’t talk about my horror short story podcast, www.sleepisforsheep.com or the insane story I’m releasing this weekend set in the San Fernando valley porn industry!
Thomas Zimmerman
2024-05-16 22:48:16 +0000 UTCGreat episode. Kind of a sad episode.
slimshadyfan666
2024-05-16 20:46:48 +0000 UTC“Did you trade your iphone in for a Jitterbug yet? Where is the AARP coupon code for this pod?”…Now that’s funny! Thank you, I laughed out loud.
Brian Kenna
2024-05-16 19:53:37 +0000 UTCReally enjoyed this episode and guest, and I've already ordered a couple of his books.
D Michael Hardy
2024-05-16 18:14:17 +0000 UTCWow, Thomas - the audacity. The bravado...You don't see me on here trying to advertise my extremely funny satiric novel FLAT - Jeez! (available here: https://tinyurl.com/Flat-Novel )
Travis Films
2024-05-16 16:55:23 +0000 UTCGreat guest and great convo
Oscar
2024-05-16 16:51:00 +0000 UTCI got really bummed out listening to this episode for some reason…existential dread is a son of a bitch.
Maxwell Rinehart
2024-05-16 14:46:52 +0000 UTCHi fellow BEE listeners. Since this episode is about indie publishing, I’m going to take the plunge and promote my new novel STONE RIBS, now available on Amazon. There is a murderer loose in the suburbs of Kernsville, Maryland, but he isn’t targeting humans. He’s taking their pets, testing the limits of his cruelty, a pre-serial killer. When the authorities do nothing, a group of adolescents conspire to hunt him down. STONE RIBS by Thomas Zimmerman is a tightly crafted thriller, a boy and his dog story set in a modern America that has lost all innocence.
Thomas Zimmerman
2024-05-16 11:50:20 +0000 UTCThis is a great episode And very eye opening about his books
Cowboy and his books
2024-05-16 10:32:50 +0000 UTCDoping kids always leads to disaster
Billy Schafer
2024-05-15 22:42:20 +0000 UTCAgreed
R. M.
2024-05-15 21:41:23 +0000 UTCIt’s truly shocking to me when I hear so many of Bret’s guests (of a certain age) talk about all the prescription drugs they’ve been on since they were kids. The shit doesn’t work! If you don’t have any consistency as a child and your parents are going through a messy divorce: that’s an external problem and not fixed by anti-anxiety meds!
Christopher Ward
2024-05-15 21:31:22 +0000 UTCGreat guest, great conversation. I enjoyed what he had to say and I’m definitely going to check out his writing. Bret, you do you, but I am noticing this fixation that you’re “old” is bordering on obsessive. It’s getting repetitive and distracting. It’s the opposite end of the cringe spectrum from people that constantly downplay that they’re not old. I get it, you’re going through it right now and leaning into It is better than being in denial but I think there’s a balance to be struck which I am sure you will find. Aging with grace doesn’t get enough credit these days. It’s safe to say none of us are thinking of your age until you bring it up, and then even when you bring it up, it’s overly dramatic. You’re not 80 and on Geritol for fucks sake. Did you trade your iphone in for a Jitterbug yet? Where is the AARP coupon code for this pod? Chandler dodged a bullet with Katie, but is clearly still under her spell. You can’t be an artist and have a partner that’s censoring/editing your art. Find someone that respects your autonomy as an artist. As always, appreciate you, Adam, and the pod!
R. M.
2024-05-15 20:48:19 +0000 UTCI liked this guy. Even though I have no interest in the sort of stuff I am assuming he writes based on the description I'll check it out. I got over the shock lit stuff when I published that sort of thing way back and now just cringe at my own work. But every once in a while someone comes around that puts a new spin on it that can be compelling.
BrienPiechos
2024-05-15 20:18:02 +0000 UTCHad never heard of this guy but bought his “American Narcissist” book last night. 1/3rd of the way thru and it’s pretty entertaining.
Craig
2024-05-15 20:04:44 +0000 UTCKatie who? Maloney?
Nikki Ferrari
2024-05-15 19:19:57 +0000 UTCIt's uncanny
Happyhead
2024-05-15 17:56:25 +0000 UTCAntidepressants evidently haven’t done shit for this generation. Everyone has a “mental disorder” now.
Jonathan Davis
2024-05-15 17:04:57 +0000 UTCI read the Frog King, fresh out of grad school. A little over ten years later—i worked for a prestigious publishing company (ND, I only landed the job because I was dating the grand daughter of the founder) I was so disappointed. The book ruined it for me.
M. Nero Nava
2024-05-15 16:35:52 +0000 UTCam going to listen on my run. will say more later, after my run.
richard owain roberts
2024-05-15 16:22:58 +0000 UTCBEE is the man!!
Matt
2024-05-15 16:04:50 +0000 UTCI Just Want to See the Boy Happy
Moz
2024-05-15 13:08:57 +0000 UTCI agree. He seems cool but he is being a wuss about Katie.
Keith campbell
2024-05-15 10:10:51 +0000 UTCI like this guy. Will check out his work.
N.M. Janice.
2024-05-15 00:48:17 +0000 UTCHa
Craig
2024-05-14 16:35:50 +0000 UTCJust started listening…. this guy is a little ray of sunshine
David Lowe
2024-05-14 15:29:37 +0000 UTC
