Night of the Living Dead (Podcast)

David James Keaton is a writer I’ve known for years. He writes work that I admire, and he can bullshit with the best of them. One time we flew to Vegas together and the woman sitting next to him threw up. Dave’s response? He took pictures of her puking on his phone and texted them to me even though we were in the middle of a flight.

So when I agreed to blog for DSM, and it just happened to coincide with the publication of Dave’s second novella, “Zee Bee and Bee (A.K.A. Propeller Hats for the Dead)” in the anthology Deadcore published by Comet Press, I knew I wanted to interview him on a podcast and share with everyone his drunken, practically incoherent ramblings.

In the podcast, I interview Dave alongside the writers Steve Gillies and Christopher Lee. But it’s not just a literary interview about Dave’s zombie novella. We also watch Night of the Living Dead in the background and occasionally provide commentary. So if you’ve got the movie, fire it up, download the podcast, and listen to Dave publically admit that every good scene he’s ever written he stole from me.

Living Dead Podcast: (Part 1)

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Living Dead Podcast: (Part 2)

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Living Dead Podcast: (Part 3)

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– Steve Gillies is the co-fiction editor of Hot Metal Bridge (hotmetalbridge.org). He was born in Brazil, grew up in Alabama and spent most of his adult life in Chicago. Now he’s in Pittsburgh, pursuing an MFA in Fiction at the University of Pittsburgh and trying to keep David Keaton out of trouble. So far unsuccessfully.

– David James Keaton’s short fiction has appeared in the Comet Press anthologies Deadcore and The Death Panel, as well as Plots With Guns, Thuglit, Espresso Stories, Big Pulp, Six Sentences, Pulp Pusher, and Crooked. He is a contributor to The College Rag and Hot Metal Bridge. A graduate student in the MFA program at Pitt, he is also a full-time closed captioner and the ill-fated founder of a Bed and Breakfast where staff would be encouraged to attack the guests.

– Christopher M. Lee grew up as a TV kid in West Virginia. Today he’s an MFA candidate at the University of Pittsburgh and alternates his time between writing stories, playing the saxophone, and stealing anything that isn’t bolted down.

– Salvatore Pane’s fiction has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize and DZANC’s Best of the Web anthology and has appeared, or is forthcoming, in PANK, Hobart, Flatmancrooked, Quick Fiction, Annalemma and others. He blogs for The Rumpus, BOMB, Pank and Dark Sky, teaches fiction at the University of Pittsburgh and can be found online at www.salvatore-pane.com.