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The Short Fuse Podcast

The Short Fuse Podcasts, hosted by Elizabeth Howard, are conversations with artists, writers, musicians and others whose art reveals our communities through their lens and stirs us to seek change. "Artists are here to disturb the peace." James Baldwin The Short Fuse is produced by the Arts Fuse, the online journal of arts commentary and criticism.

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00:29:26

S2: E3: Matt & Lucas Return

The Short Fuse Podcast ·

2019/12/05

Remember that walkie-talkie conversation from Episode 1? The boys are back again, musing on Matt's obituary for renowned scholar Harold Bloom. Steve Provizer's final Cultural Curmudgeon takes on New Orleans Jazz straight from Matt's new home. We round out the evening with a sampling of the latest Coming Attractions, including a quick lover letter to Dolly Parton. Find more upcoming New England arts events here:

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00:29:35

S2 E2: Glenn Rifkin & Kanye Grumblin'

The Short Fuse Podcast ·

2019/11/19

We start the show in conversation with Glenn Rifkin, freelance journalist extraordinaire. You can find Glenn's book here: https://www.futureforwardbook.com. Searching his name on our site will pull up all of his archived articles. Check out the featured artist, Juniper, at: https://www.junipertheband.com/. On that note -- thanks again to DYLIS for our intro, outro, and transitions. This episode includes Coming Attractions taking place from November 17 - 30, 2019. Last, but not least, Deanna reads

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00:30:01

S2 E1: The Dawn of Deanna's Takeover

The Short Fuse Podcast ·

2019/11/03

We start this season with dispatches from the road, thanks to our pioneering co-hosts, Matt Hanson and Lucas Spiro. The audio quality of the interview is less than stellar, but we can only get better from here! Matt shares about his first few months in his new home, New Orleans, while Lucas regales us with tales from his extensive honeymoon trip along the American Roads. Later in the episode, Fuse contributor Steve Provizer stops by with his Cultural Curmudgeon feature. Tonight's journey is rounded

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01:20:18

Ep 18 - The end of an era

The Short Fuse Podcast ·

2019/08/03

It's the end of an era. This is the final episode of the first run of The Arts Fuse Podcast. Matt is moving to New Orleans, and Lucas is taking an extended hiatus and then moving back to Dublin, Ireland. For this episode, Matt and Lucas kick back and have a friendly chat between two good old boys, discussing the bizarre OJ Simpson Twitter feed, and how we're more easily bored these days. The fellas then take a deep dive into Matt Hanson's review of Martin Scorsese's new Netflix documentary Rolling

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00:57:45

Ep 17 - When the games are so unjust...

The Short Fuse Podcast ·

2019/07/02

We have our first married couple on the show to talk video games, micro-transactions, and fear and loathing at PAX East. Local burgeoning writer, and newcomer to The Arts Fuse critics circle, Michael Costa joins the show to report on the Fuse's coverage of 2019's PAX East, a major video game convention that your host knows nothing about. He also happens to be Deanna's husband, but I won't say that's how he got the gig. We'll explore questions related to video games as art, the economics of gaming,

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00:57:11

Ep 16 - Encrypted telegraphs with Lt. Deanna

The Short Fuse Podcast ·

2019/05/24

Don't forget to support The Arts Fuse during our winter appeal! Only a few more days left to donate and every dollar helps. We've been ballin' on a budget for almost 12 years and don't want to stop now. Contribute through The Arts Fuse or on our facebook page. The gang talks Lil Nas X, HBO's Barry, and why the VA probably owes Deanna's ancestors a shit load of cash. How seriously do we take country rap? Is it even a genre? We take a look at a few of the singles out there being classified as such,

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01:00:00

Ep 15 - REE-AL-O-TEE!

The Short Fuse Podcast ·

2019/05/14

The boys are joined once again by Arts Fuse editor-in-chief Bill Marx, who opines on the continued demise of Boston fringe theater, most recently embodied by the loss of a home for the Gold Dust Orphans and the buying up of The Machine in Boston's Fenway neighborhood by a developer. The crew then discusses Paula Vogel's play Indecent, now playing at the Huntington Theater. Vogel's play was the subject of a debate between two critics in the pages of The Arts Fuse, with one lauding the it as a

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01:23:44

Ep 14 - Dialectics of politicized art, or the...

The Short Fuse Podcast ·

2019/04/21

The Arts Fuse welcomes a new character to their extended universe. Deanna Marie Costa, Arts Fuse critic and editor, joins Matt and Lucas to discuss a range of topics related to art, politics, and propaganda. First, Deanna introduces herself and talks about what she covers for The Fuse. Then the panelists dive into Blake Maddux's review of Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s The Ideas That Made America. A discussion about the social and social implications of Sleeping Weazel's The Audacity: Women Speak,

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01:00:45

Ep 13 - Everything you've wanted to know about book...

The Short Fuse Podcast ·

2019/04/07

If you thought the work of a critic was glamorous, Matt and Lucas prove you wrong. On this episode the boys tackle some of the behind the scenes stuff of writing reviews, particularly book reviews. They use as their source material the cover essay from this April's Harper's by Christian Lorentzen called "Like this or die: the fate of the book review in the age of the algorithm." If you're a fan of the show, you know The Arts Fuse writers are sworn adversaries of the algorithm. While it may

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01:00:01

Ep 12 - Howl at the loon

The Short Fuse Podcast ·

2019/03/28

Lucas is all alone at the start of this one. He messed up the audio for out latest episode and put this together so you wouldn't have to go without that sweet, sweet content. He highlights a few pieces in the magazine including Tim Jackson's review of the new Jordan Peele film Us, and Steve Provizer's review of Vic Hobson's book Creating the Jazz Solo: Louis Armstrong and Barbershop Harmony. Then we move on to some bonus content from our interview with Pulitzer prize winner Lloyd Schwartz. Lloyd

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01:34:56

Ep. 11 - Skinny Jerry Garcia and Nixon read poetry

The Short Fuse Podcast ·

2019/02/28

We are overwhelmed with gratitude that we were able to spend this episode with Pulitzer prize winning critic, poet, and teacher Lloyd Schwartz. We talk about his life, his poetry, his teaching, and the many incredible writers, poets, and people he's met. Lloyd is a professor at UMass Boston and the poet laureate of Somerville, MA. We also cover a couple of pieces in the magazine about a blackface confession, and the latest season of True Detective. Stick around for the poetry of Richard Milhous

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01:09:19

Ep 10 - The audacity of art

The Short Fuse Podcast ·

2019/01/25

On this episode Lucas and Matt once again bang their heads against the walls of some of art's big questions. First, Lucas schools Matt on Paul Verhoeven and why he's still important. Then the boys remember Mary Oliver and read the first of what, we hope, will be many more Madonna tweets. Matt talks about what he likes about William Giraldi's book of literary criticism American Audacity. Then, Lucas reads from his piece on the short films of Josh Begley, data artist and law teacher who also writes

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01:00:00

Ep 9 - Melted into air on the fringe, the David...

The Short Fuse Podcast ·

2019/01/09

After nearly twenty years on the fringe, Boston’s Zeitgeist Stage Company is shutting its doors with its production of Jacques Lamarre’s Trigger Warning at the Boston Center for the Arts, April 12 through May 4. Arts Fuse editor Bill Marx, along with Lucas Spiro and Matt Hanson, spend the hour talking with David Miller, the founding artistic director of the company. We discuss the challenging theater the small company was known for, current barriers of entry in the theater world, and the money

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01:09:29

Ep. 8 - Good riddance, 2018...

The Short Fuse Podcast ·

2018/12/31

A sickly Lucas Spiro is joined once more by Matt Hanson to give you a review of the year that was. And what a dumb year it's been. Not for The Fuse, though! You'll have to forgive Lucas for, in addition to everything else, his severe head cold. And both of us for briefly discussing Kevin Spacey's unbearable, cringe-worthy monologue rejecting the premise of the horrendous accusations against him in the persona of Frank Underwood while cooking Christmas dinner. This pretty much sums up 2018 wherein we

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01:08:45

"People are like ferrets!"

The Short Fuse Podcast ·

2018/12/12

Matt and Lucas talk with Arts Fuse critic Steve Provizer about one of our favorite subjects: just what is a critic for? We base our discussion on the new Coen brothers film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs and discuss violence, politics, and the virtues of the noble ferret.

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01:04:44

Ep.6 - The Father, Son, and Ms. Boudreau

The Short Fuse Podcast ·

2018/11/27

Give thanks, the Fuse is back with another podcast! In this episode, Lucas and Matt review some of the recent pieces that have gone up on the Arts Fuse about theater, music, and more. A review of the new Jane Fonda documentary leads into a discussion about celebrity culture and politics. Recently, Matt interviewed writer and New Yorker book Critic James Wood about his novel Upstate and the challenges of writing fiction. Matt coins a phrase. Lucas supplies some sound effects. Then we read from Jeremy

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01:07:52

This is why we can't have nice things

The Short Fuse Podcast ·

2018/11/05

Lucas and Matt discuss the demise of FilmStruck, a "business decision" made in the aftermath of the ATt&T and Time Warner merger. The fat cats continue to swallow up all that sweet, premium content, limiting our imaginative and cultural possibilities. Then, we take a look at Monica Hileman's review of Michael Lewis's book The Fifth Risk, and talk about the importance and shortcomings of all that red tape. Matt then gives us a long read of Jay Atkinson's review of the thrilling

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01:15:47

The left is not fucking Aaron Sorkin

The Short Fuse Podcast ·

2018/10/07

We get political AF on this one, folks. This is the AF podcast, after all. Bill Marx rejoins the crew for an in depth discussion of the Eleanor Burgess play "The Niceties" that just finished up its run at the Calderwood Pavilion in Boston's South End. Lucas looses his mind. Matt tries to be diplomatic. And Bill remains the wise dispassionate critic who sets everyone else straight about the future of theater and the political left.

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01:00:48

Bonus - Extended conversation with Bill Marx

The Short Fuse Podcast ·

2018/09/30

Hear the extended conversation with Bill Marx from episode 1. Matt and I grill the Fuse's editor in chief about the state of arts criticism and why reading The Arts Fuse is a sure fire way of guaranteeing how young and hip you are. Then we do an in depth comparison of Spike Lee's film BlacKkKlansman and Boots Riley's film Sorry to Bother You.

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01:13:13

Funny 'haha' or funny peculiar? The Matt Christman...

The Short Fuse Podcast ·

2018/09/13

We've made it to episode 2! And boy do we have a good one. We are eternally grateful to Matt Christman (@cushbomb) from Chapo Trap House who humbled himself to talk with us about the new book The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts and Reason. The book was co-written with other Chapo members Felix, Will, Virgil, and Brendan and has art from Eli Valley and John White. Chapo will be live in Boston on Friday September 14 at the Wilbur and then going to Hamden, CT and Pawtucket,

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