Sat, 12 March 2022
In this week’s show, I talk to Laura Costas about the pleasures of disorientation, the surprises of actual history, the complexity of myth, and postmodernism.
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Fri, 4 March 2022
In #513, I talk to Jane-Rebecca Cannarella about genre bending & blending, illustrating literature, and the dialectics of Disney's The Little Mermaid. |
Sat, 26 February 2022
In this week’s show, I talk to Lan Samantha Chan about writing a novel over a long period of time, learning and teaching at the Iowa Writers Workshop, the value of writing communities, and balancing teaching, administrative work, and writing. |
Sat, 19 February 2022
Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_511.mp3
Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 12:10pm EDT |
Sat, 12 February 2022
On today’s show, I talk to TDO's comic book blogger Drew Barth to discuss Walt Simonson's astounding mythical, iconoclastic run on Thorback in the 1980s. |
Sat, 5 February 2022
Sandra Lim talks about optimism, editing through the pile of a poem, letting oneself go in the current of the stream, and finding a grounding in the abstractions of mind and word.
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Sat, 29 January 2022
On today’s show, co-novelists Laura Blackett and Eve Gleichman talk about corporate cults, collaborative writing, and satire.
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Sat, 22 January 2022
Memoirist Sonya Huber discusses how to write the way that we think, including the semiotic leapfrogs of memory, and trying to depict the precarious balance of reality.
Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_507.mp3
Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 4:00am EDT |
Sat, 15 January 2022
On #506, Shruti Swarmy talks about calling the reader into a complete, already alive imaginary world, and writing about dance in ways that transcend rational, orderly prose.
Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_506.mp3
Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 5:00am EDT |
Sat, 8 January 2022
On today’s show, I speak with the memoirist Brian Broome, winner of the 2021 Kirkus Prize for nonfiction.
Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_505.mp3
Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 3:40pm EDT |