Episode 48 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is here!

On this week's show, I interview the fiction writer Dylan Landis

plus the poet Eleanor Lerman writes about Leonard Cohen's Spice Box of Earth.

Episode 47 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is now available.

This week, it's a great live event!

Notes

If you live in Central Florida, come to the next event in Jared Sylvia's Functionally Literate series, despite the fact that I am reading there.

Episode 45 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available.

This week, I talk to the poet Terry Ann Thaxton,

Plus Madison Bernath reviews 360 GLAZED DONUT VODKA!

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Madison's review of 360 Glazed Donut Vodka first appeared on McSweeney's Internet Tendency.

Wikipedia decides that women aren't "American novelists," according to this Times story.

I'll be reading with Philip Deaver, Monica Wendel, and Enid Schumer on May 11th at the Timucua Arts White House.

On Episode 45 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, I talk to Richard Peabody, the editor of Gargoyle Magazine,

Plus Kirsten Holt reads a beautiful elegy.

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Episode 44 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is npw available.

This week, I talk to the poet and VIDA's co-founder Erin Belieau,

Plus Julie Henderson discusses Clive Barker's The Thief of Always.

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Notes

Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s Titus Andronicus runs through April 28.

Pablo Neruda's body is being exhumed, after his poetry was last month desecrated by a Kentucky Senator.

Ireland mints a James Joyce coin.  Textual scholars are already at work discrediting the text.

Music for this week’s essay provided by Steven McClurg.

On episode 43 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, I talk to the poet Lillian-Yvonne Bertram,

Plus James Best discusses Gatsby.

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Carlton Melton's Photos of Photos.

Notes

Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s Titus Andronicus runs through April 28.

Music for this week’s essay provided by Carlton Melton.

Grrr: Amazon buys Goodreads.com.

The Tequila Worms have generously offered their album Cantina as a free download.

Episode 42 is here.

This week, I talk to Stephen Elliott and Isaac Fitzgerald of The Rumpus, 

plus Astrid Cooke writes about Stephen King's The Stand.

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Isaac Fitzgerald's Why I Agreed to be a Bend-over Boyfriend.

Notes

Orlando Shakespeare Theater's Titus Andronicus runs through April 28.

Music for this week's essay provided by Zelda Re-orchestrated.

Chinua Achebe, Literary Titan, dies at 82.

Episode 41 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

On this week’s show, I talk to the poet and teacher Emily Brandt,

Plus Denise Falcone talks about Nabokov's Ada.

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The Inside Colocation blog.

I love the ad-free dictionary aggregator, wordnik.

The New Yorker Rejects Itself.

On episode 40, I talk to the poet Tony Hoagland,

Plus Bob Lamb Explains How Ernest Hemingway saved him from Rendition.

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Show Notes

This episode begins with a limerick written and read by Chris Booth, in honor of our pal Steve Kelly:

Episode 39 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is now available.

On this week’s show, I talk to Rick Moody,

James Best explains why he isn't afraid of sharks,

Plus I talk to the playwright and actor Charlie Bethel about his current one man show of The Odyssey.

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The Drunken Odyssey will be making a pub crawl in Boston this Friday.