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.
Chapter 50: L. Frank Baum, featuring Chris Tallman
Preface: Henry Miller and Sylvia Plath, featuring Eddie Pepitone and Jen Kirkman
Chapter 49: Albert Camus, featuring Steve Agee
Addendum vi: Beatrix Potter, featuring Lauren Lapkus
Addendum v: William Butler Yeats, featuring David Rees
Addendum iv: Lucy Maud Montgomery, featuring Ryan Beil
Addendum iii: Aleister Crowley, featuring Matt Gourley
Addendum ii: Christopher Marlowe, featuring Matt Gourley
Chapter 48: Maya Angelou, featuring Tymberlee Hill
Addendum i: Lewis Carroll, featuring Rory Scovel
Chapter 45 [Part 2]: L. Ron Hubbard, featuring Andy Daly
Chapter 47: Mark Twain
Chapter 46: Hans Christian Andersen, featuring Joe Wengert
Chapter 45 [Part 1]: L. Ron Hubbard, featuring Andrew Daly
Chapter 44: Confucius, featuring Eugene Cordero
Chapter 43: Iceberg Slim, featuring Ron Funches
Chapter 42: Miguel de Cervantes, featuring Horatio Sanz
Appendix H: Hunter S. Thompson and Philip K. Dick, featuring James Adomian and Matt Besser
Chapter 41: Dr. Seuss, featuring Hal Lublin
Appendix G: F. Scott Fitzgerald and James Joyce, featuring Andy Daly and Sean Conroy
Chapter 40: Virginia Woolf, featuring Mary Holland
Appendix F: Ernest Hemingway and Sun Tzu, featuring Josh Fadem and Fred Armisen
Chapter 39: Flannery O'Connor, featuring Lennon Parham
Chapter 38: Ian Fleming, featuring Matt Gourley
Appendix E: Lord Byron and Norman Mailer, featuring Dana Gould and Frank Conniff
Appendix D: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. and Erma Bombeck, featuring Seth Morris and Brian Huseky
Chapter 37: Truman Capote, featuring Jessica Chaffin
Appendix C: Edgar Allan Poe and J.D. Salinger, featuring Craig Cackowski and Marc Evan Jackson
Chapter 36: Ralph Ellison, featuring DeMorge Brown
Chapter 35: Oscar Wilde, featuring Jon Daly
Chapter 34: Roald Dahl, featuring Ben Schwartz
Chapter 30: William Faulkner, featuring Thomas Lennon
Chapter 33: Rod Serling, featuring John Ross Bowie
Chapter 32: E. Gary Gygax, featuring Chris Tallman
Chapter 31: Anne Frank, featuring Jamie Denbo
Chapter 29: Clement Clarke Moore and Irving Berlin, featuring Scott Aukerman and Neil Campbell
Chapter 28: Walt Whitman, featuring James Adomian
Chapter 27: Tennessee Williams, featuring Kristen Schaal
Chapter 26: William S. Burroughs, featuring Kurt Braunohler
Chapter 25: Shel Silverstein, featuring Mark McConville
Chapter 24: Plato, featuring Jason Mantzoukas
Chapter 23: Charlotte Brontë, featuring Jessica St. Clair
Chapter 22: Edgar Rice Burroughs, featuring Chris Tallman
Chapter 21: Joseph Campbell, featuring Jeremy Carter
Chapter 20: Ayn Rand, featuring John Hodgman
Chapter 2: Robert Louis Stevenson, featuring Andy Daly
Chapter 18: Brendan Behan, featuring Brian Stack
Chapter 17: Agatha Christie, featuring Jessica Chaffin
Chapter 16: Gore Vidal, featuring Marc Evan Jackson
Chapter 15: The Marquis de Sade, featuring Andy Daly
Chapter 14: Abbie Hoffman, featuring Jen Kirkman
Chapter 13: The Brothers Grimm, featuring Jeremy Carter and Matt Gourley
Chapter 19: The Authors of The Gospels, featuring Craig Cackowski, Mark Gagliardi, Hal Lublin and Matt Gourley
Chapter 12: Mary Shelley, featuring Laraine Newman
Chapter 11: J.R.R. Tolkien, featuring Matt Walsh
Chapter 10: Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring Chris Tallman
Chapter 9: Jorge Luis Borges, featuring Nick Kroll
Chapter 8: Aesop, featuring Mark McConville
Appendix B: Friederich Nietzsche and H.P. Lovecraft, featuring James Adomian and Paul Scheer
Chapter 7: P.G. Wodehouse, featuring Brian Stack
Chapter 6: Gertrude Stein, featuring John Ross Bowie
Chapter 5: Carl Sagan, featuring Matt Gourley
Appendix A: Charles Dickens and O. Henry, featuring Hal Lublin and Marc Evan Jackson
Chapter 4: Benjamin Franklin, featuring Scott Aukerman
Chapter 3: Dorothy Parker, featuring Jen Kirkman