Sat, 2 March 2013
On this week’s show, I talk to the fiction writer Matthew Pitt, plus Pamela Skjolsvik discusses David Sedaris’s Me Talk Pretty One Day. Texts Discussed Ishmael Reed’s WSJ blog about Django Unchained. Kirtsen Holt’s new poem, Taxonomy. Richie Havens’s “Freedom”
Orlando Shakespeare Theatre presents Othello, now through March 16th.
Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_38.mp3
Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 3:27pm EDT |
Fri, 22 February 2013
On this week’s show, I talk to the poet Steve Davenport, Joe Conley plums Cormac McCarthy's Child of God, Plus I answer some mail... Texts Discussed: Notes: Orlando Shakespeare Theatre presents Othello, now through March 16th. Throughout February, Rollins College will be hosting its annual author series, Winter with the Writers. |
Wed, 13 February 2013
On this week’s show, The Drunken Odyssey All-Stars & I get erotic, poetically speaking... The Drunken Odyssey All-Stars ______________________________ Vanessa Blakeslee Tod Caviness Genevieve Tyrrell Anna King Ryan Rivas Kirsten Holt Susan Lilley Plus A letter from James Best, A limerick from Christopher Booth, and show & tell with Lisa Claire Roney!
Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_36.mp3
Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 5:48pm EDT |
Sat, 9 February 2013
Episode 35 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available. On this week’s show, I talk with my friend Philip F. Deaver, who happens to have won a Flannery O'Conner Award, plus Helena-Anne Htittel discusses Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner. Texts Discussed: Notes Throughout February, Rollins College will be hosting its annual author series, Winter with the Writers. Orlando Shakespeare Theatre presents Othello, now through March 16th. Get the Groupon here. In other Shakespeare news, Richard III's remains were found underneath a parking lot. I'm not making this up--it's in The Times.
Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_35.mp3
Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 12:57pm EDT |
Fri, 1 February 2013
Episode 34 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is here! On this week’s show, I talk Shakespeare with Stephen Burdman, the artistic director of New York Classical Theatre, Plus Bronte Bettencourt talks about Lestat. Texts Discussed: Notes Laurence Olivier's screenplay adaptation of his never-filmed Macbeth has been found, according to The Guardian. Barnes and Noble will be closing 20 stores a year for the next decade, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_34.mp3
Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 6:02pm EDT |
Sat, 26 January 2013
Episode 33 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right here for download. On this week’s show, I interview noted reviewer Chauncey Mabe, Plus Adam Soldolfsky reads from Panorama-orama. Notes Chauncey Mabe's now defunct but still evergreen blog for the Florida Center for the Literary Arts. Amazon cannot underprice books in France, as reported in The New York Times. Books and Books, the best independent in South Florida. Orlando Cultural Events This week, the Zora Neale Hurston Festival is underway. Attend The Drunken Odyssey's Evening of Erotic Poetry on February 8th. Throughout February, Rollins College will be hosting its annual author series, Winter with the Writers. Orlando Shakespeare Theatre presents Othello, now through March 16th. Episode 33 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right here for download.
Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_33.mp3
Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 7:14pm EDT |
Sat, 19 January 2013
Episode 32 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is now available. On this week’s show, I interview novelist Terry Cronin, And Jean Davis offers one amazing essay about Write is a Verb. Texts Discussed Notes Susan Lilley will be reading from her new book of poems, Satellite Beach, on Thursday, January 24th, at Rollins College. For more info, click here. Show contributor Alise Hamilton (episode 7) discusses bingers and plodders, and the merits of the former as writers, at Bill and Dave's Cocktail Hour. A history of the Coppertone sign.
Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_32.mp3
Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 12:20pm EDT |
Sun, 13 January 2013
On this week's show, I interview novelist Grant Ginder, Plus Tim J. Myers discusses Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, Texts Discussed Notes
The Drunken Odyssey has its first video posting! Presenting Martin Amis at Miami Bookfair International (the video version of episode 26).
vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/57195594 w=500&h=333
Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_31.mp3
Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 12:33pm EDT |