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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.
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Chapter 50: L. Frank Baum, featuring Chris Tallman from 2015-12-31T08:00
Chapter 50: In this final installment of the free monthly podcast, H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) welcomes author/showman loud person L. Frank Baum (Chri...
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Preface: Henry Miller and Sylvia Plath, featuring Eddie Pepitone and Jen Kirkman from 2015-12-28T08:00
H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) welcomes Henry Miller (Eddie Pepitone) and Sylvia Plath (Jen Kirkman) in the very first recorded version of T...
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Addendum vi: Beatrix Potter, featuring Lauren Lapkus from 2015-08-14T07:00
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Addendum v: William Butler Yeats, featuring David Rees from 2015-08-07T07:00
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Addendum iv: Lucy Maud Montgomery, featuring Ryan Beil from 2015-07-31T07:00
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Addendum iii: Aleister Crowley, featuring Matt Gourley from 2015-07-24T07:00
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Addendum ii: Christopher Marlowe, featuring Matt Gourley from 2015-07-17T07:00
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Chapter 48: Maya Angelou, featuring Tymberlee Hill from 2015-07-14T21:59:53
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Addendum i: Lewis Carroll, featuring Rory Scovel from 2015-07-10T07:00
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Chapter 45 [Part 2]: L. Ron Hubbard, featuring Andy Daly from 2015-06-30T07:00
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Chapter 46: Hans Christian Andersen, featuring Joe Wengert from 2015-05-19T07:00
Chapter 46: H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) welcomes fairy-taleist Hans Christian Andersen (Joe Wengert) to the Dead Authors stage. DID YOU KNOW?...
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Chapter 45 [Part 1]: L. Ron Hubbard, featuring Andrew Daly from 2015-04-14T07:00
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Chapter 44: Confucius, featuring Eugene Cordero from 2015-03-17T03:18:40
Chapter 44: Think Confucius (Eugene Cordero) has no wisdom to offer other than that which can fit on a slip of paper inside a baked good? Well, H.G. Wells (
Chapter 43: Iceberg Slim, featuring Ron Funches from 2015-02-26T15:58:26
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Chapter 42: Miguel de Cervantes, featuring Horatio Sanz from 2015-01-27T08:00
Chapter 42: H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) goes mano a mano with Don Quixote author Miguel de Cervantes (Horatio Sanz). You may be pleased to h...
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Appendix H: Hunter S. Thompson and Philip K. Dick, featuring James Adomian and Matt Besser from 2015-01-16T08:00
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Chapter 41: Dr. Seuss, featuring Hal Lublin from 2014-12-24T14:17:32
Chapter 41: H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) does not interview Dr. Seuss (Hal Lublin) on a box, proving that eatin...
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Appendix G: F. Scott Fitzgerald and James Joyce, featuring Andy Daly and Sean Conroy from 2014-12-05T08:00
Appendix F: From the vaults! H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) welcomes F. Scott Fitzgerald (Andy Daly) and James Joyce (Sean Conroy) to the Dead Authors stage for an evening of whatever this is. Listen
Chapter 40: Virginia Woolf, featuring Mary Holland from 2014-11-20T08:00
Chapter 40: H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) learns who is afraid of Virginia Woolf (Mary Holland) and it turns out to be H.G. Wells.
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Appendix F: Ernest Hemingway and Sun Tzu, featuring Josh Fadem and Fred Armisen from 2014-11-07T08:00
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Chapter 39: Flannery O'Connor, featuring Lennon Parham from 2014-10-21T07:00
Chapter 39: H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) proves a good woman is easy to snatch up in a machine that can travel through time and space! And Flannery O'Connor (<...
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Chapter 38: Ian Fleming, featuring Matt Gourley from 2014-10-09T07:00
Chapter 38: H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) welcomes the creator of James Bond himself, Ian Fleming (Matt Gourley) to the Dead Authors stage. Mr. Fleming is a tro...
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Appendix E: Lord Byron and Norman Mailer, featuring Dana Gould and Frank Conniff from 2014-10-03T07:00
Appendix E: From the vaults! H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) welcomes Lord Byron (Dana Gould) and Norman Mailer (Frank Conniff) to the Dead Autho...
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Appendix D: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. and Erma Bombeck, featuring Seth Morris and Brian Huseky from 2014-09-25T06:17:17
Appendix D: From the vaults! H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) welcomes Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Seth Morris) and Erma Bombeck (Brian Huskey) to the Dea...
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Chapter 37: Truman Capote, featuring Jessica Chaffin from 2014-08-14T22:04:56
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Appendix C: Edgar Allan Poe and J.D. Salinger, featuring Craig Cackowski and Marc Evan Jackson from 2014-08-05T07:00
Appendix C: From the vaults! H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) welcomes Edgar Allan Poe (Craig Cackowski) and J.D. Salinger (Marc Evan Jack...
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Chapter 36: Ralph Ellison, featuring DeMorge Brown from 2014-07-30T00:33:39
H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) welcomes novelist, critic, and scholar Ralph Ellison (DeMorge Brown) to the podcast. For you completists, this episode contains ap...
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Chapter 35: Oscar Wilde, featuring Jon Daly from 2014-06-17T07:00
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Chapter 34: Roald Dahl, featuring Ben Schwartz from 2014-05-30T00:16:11
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Chapter 30: William Faulkner, featuring Thomas Lennon from 2014-05-13T07:00
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Chapter 33: Rod Serling, featuring John Ross Bowie from 2014-04-15T07:00
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Chapter 31: Anne Frank, featuring Jamie Denbo from 2014-02-18T22:05:12
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Chapter 29: Clement Clarke Moore and Irving Berlin, featuring Scott Aukerman and Neil Campbell from 2013-12-18T01:25:03
Chapter 27: Tennessee Williams, featuring Kristen Schaal from 2013-11-26T08:00
Chapter 27: H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) chats with Tennessee Williams (Kristen Schaal) about his many plays. Prepare yourself to hear the phrase "Red Devil Battry Sign" more times in one hour ...
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Chapter 26: William S. Burroughs, featuring Kurt Braunohler from 2013-11-19T21:00:18
Chapter 26: H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) chats with William S. Burroughs (Kurt Braunohler). When Mr. Burroughs rolls up his sle...
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Chapter 25: Shel Silverstein, featuring Mark McConville from 2013-11-12T10:06:28
Chapter 25: H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) gets an earful from Shel Silverstein (Mark McConville) about trees.
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Chapter 24: Plato, featuring Jason Mantzoukas from 2013-11-05T08:00
Chapter 23: Charlotte Brontë, featuring Jessica St. Clair from 2013-10-29T07:00
Chapter 20: Ayn Rand, featuring John Hodgman from 2013-06-20T16:28:22
Chapter 20: Live from the 2013 San Francisco Sketchfest! H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) welcomes the rather chatty Ayn Rand (John Hodgman) or an evening of H.G. Wells listening to Ayn Rand.
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Chapter 2: Robert Louis Stevenson, featuring Andy Daly from 2013-05-13T17:49
Chapter 2: The sound is terrible on this one. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. There's still lots of good stuff!
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Chapter 18: Brendan Behan, featuring Brian Stack from 2013-05-01T17:45
Chapter 18: Perhaps H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) will have better luck than previoius chat show hosts in getting a few coherent sentences out of Irish poet, playwright, and sot Brendan Behan (B...
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Chapter 17: Agatha Christie, featuring Jessica Chaffin from 2013-04-16T07:00
Chapter 17: Who's our guest this time round? It's no mystery! It's Dame Agatha Christie (Jessica Chaffin)! Can H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) get to the bottom of ...
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Chapter 16: Gore Vidal, featuring Marc Evan Jackson from 2013-04-02T07:00
Chapter 16: H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) welcomes Gore Vidal (Marc Evan Jackson) who brings a truckload of truculence to the Dead Authors stage. For fans of smug dismissiveness, this episode is...
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Chapter 15: The Marquis de Sade, featuring Andy Daly from 2013-03-25T15:30
Capter 15: Oh, the delicious pain that shall be inflicted upon you with this podcast! H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) discovers there's more to The Marquis de Sade (Andy Daly) than just kinky sex-...
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Chapter 14: Abbie Hoffman, featuring Jen Kirkman from 2013-01-22T08:00
Chapter 14: Don't trust any podcast under thirty... minutes! Enjoy an hour of H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) trying to make sense of counterculture legend Abbie Hoffman. Steal his book and he jus...
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Chapter 13: The Brothers Grimm, featuring Jeremy Carter and Matt Gourley from 2012-12-31T08:00
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Chapter 19: The Authors of The Gospels, featuring Craig Cackowski, Mark Gagliardi, Hal Lublin and Matt Gourley from 2012-12-24T08:00
Chapter 19: Celebrate the birth of Christ with the men who wrote the books on Him! H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) welcomes his most... well, his most guests ever, in the personages of Saints Matt...
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Chapter 12: Mary Shelley, featuring Laraine Newman from 2012-10-31T07:00
Chapter 12: Just in time for Hallowe'en, H.G. Wells chats with the Frankenstein author about her work. Did you know "Frankenstein" was not the name of the monster? It was actually Herman somethi...
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Chapter 11: J.R.R. Tolkien, featuring Matt Walsh from 2012-10-23T07:00
Chapter 11: H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) welcomes nerd hero/nerd hater J.R.R. Tolkien (Matt Walsh) to the Dead Authors stage. There is, distressingly, as much discussion of Tom Bombadil as you ...
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Chapter 10: Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring Chris Tallman from 2012-10-12T07:00
Chapter 10: For a chap who went on and on about deductive reasoning, he sure seemed to think faeries were real. The loudly Scottish Sir Arthur (Chris Tallman) has plenty to say to H.G. Wells (Pa...
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Chapter 9: Jorge Luis Borges, featuring Nick Kroll from 2012-07-25T00:33:52
Chapter 9: H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) welcomes the quietly trippy Jorge Luis Borges (Nick Kroll) to the Dead Authors stage. What a night of accents this was!
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Chapter 8: Aesop, featuring Mark McConville from 2012-05-29T17:54:43
Chapter 8: Do you have friends who insist upon doing "voices" for their idiotic dogs? Well, you can blame the original animal anthropomorphizer, Aesop (Mark McConville). Join H.G. Wells (Paul F...
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Appendix B: Friederich Nietzsche and H.P. Lovecraft, featuring James Adomian and Paul Scheer from 2012-05-01T07:00
As you await the incipient arrival of Chapter 8 and dear Aesop (not to mention Chapter 2 and long-lost Robert Louis Stevenson), please allow H.G. Wells [Paul F. Tompkins] to divert your attentio...
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Chapter 7: P.G. Wodehouse, featuring Brian Stack from 2012-03-20T07:00
Chapter 7: Jeeves & Wooster creator P.G. Wodehouse (Brian Stack) visits with H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) and it's not long before things get disturbing (in the most British way possib...
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Chapter 6: Gertrude Stein, featuring John Ross Bowie from 2012-02-14T08:00
Chapter 6: H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) welcomes author, poet, art collector and wake-and-baker Gertrude Stein (John Ross Bowie) to the Dead Authors stage for a convivial discussion of all sort...
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Chapter 5: Carl Sagan, featuring Matt Gourley from 2012-01-17T08:00
Chapter 5: Astronomer, astrophysicist, author and turtleneck fetishist Carl Sagan (Matt Gourley) sits down with H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) for a freewheeling chat at The Upri...
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Appendix A: Charles Dickens and O. Henry, featuring Hal Lublin and Marc Evan Jackson from 2011-12-20T08:00
The Happiest of Holidays to You, Dear Listener! Here We Find Your Host, H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) Doing Yule-battle With Those Two Titans of Christmas Fiction, Charles Dickens (Hal Lublin) a...
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Chapter 4: Benjamin Franklin, featuring Scott Aukerman from 2011-12-06T05:30
Chapter 4: H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) welcomes author, inventor, diplomat and party animal Benjamin Franklin (Scott Aukerman) to the Dead Authors stage for an oft-sprited, oft-absurd, and oft...
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Chapter 3: Dorothy Parker, featuring Jen Kirkman from 2011-11-08T08:00
Chapter 3: H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) welcomes Algonquin Round Tabler Dorothy Parker (Jen Kirkman) to the Dead Authors stage. The liquor does flow a...
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Chapter 1: Emily Dickinson, featuring Andy Richter from 2011-09-20T07:00
Chapter 1: H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) welcomes painfully shy poetess Emily Dickinson (Andy Richter) to the s...
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