Category: David Milch

In this episode:

Justin shares some ruminations on similarities between the historical Al Swearingen and the founder of the Trump family dynasty Friedrich Trump, who also ran a brothel in a gold mining camp. 

• Here is a link to the McKay Coppins article about the Trumps (October 2019) 
• Here is a link to the Swearingen biography on Amazon. It’s a great read, chocked full of interesting Deadwood history.  

Justin provides updates about David Milch’s condition and status of his current writing projects, based on the most recent reporting. 

• Here is the link to the Mark Singer New Yorker profile of Milch (May 2019).

Justin charts the next phases of the Knight of Faith podcast project, cataloguing and analyzing Milch lectures and readings spread over five year increments: 2014-2019; 2010-2014; 2004-2009.

• Here is the link to the video that will be the focus of the next podcast.
• And here is the link to the Milch reading at Vulture Festival (May 10, 2014) that has been taken down by Vulture.  If anyone can find the actual video please let me know.    

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Justin shares his thoughts just before and just after watching Deadwood: The Movie; places the film in context with some ideas that Milch has always shared about his hopes for Deadwood’s finale:

• “All stories must end in the Spirit”
• “Time is the secret subject of every story worth telling”

Sources mentioned in this episode:

Deadwood: Stories of the Black Hills by David Milch

Reviews of the movie:

Deadwood: The Movie is a fitting capstone to one of TV’s greatest shows

In One Last ‘Deadwood,’ the Future Prevails and the Past Endures

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In this episode:

Writer and educator Justin Scott Snead kicks off a podcast series that discusses all things David Milch. This podcast will serve as a repository for all the online lectures, readings and public remarks Milch has given; Milch profiles and interviews; any of Milch’s non-teleplay writings. We will analyze and discuss major ideas or themes that emerge from this material, as well as the TV shows he has written.   

Sources mentioned in this episode:

Sundown on Deadwood David Milch, battling Alzheimer’s, finally finishes his TV Western.
Behind the Scenes as HBO’s Deadwood Movie Searches for Closure (or Something Like It)

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