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Whalefall

October 23, 2026 · 46 min

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Whalefall director/co-writer Brian Duffield (Spontaneous; No One Will Save You) and author/co-writer Daniel Kraus (the Pulitzer Prize winning Angel Down) discuss the responsibility of tattooing a movie onto a book, making literal the surreal, the necessary big swing in the movie, being a "form slut," and more.


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Live reads of comedy pilots that were never produced.

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