Sat, 20 August 2016
In this week’s episode, I talk to my friend, fiction writer Sam Slaughter, who I met back in 2014, when he wrote a little something about Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son for the show. We talk about his short story collection, God in Neon, his chapbook, When You Cross That Line (inspired by Florida Man stories), alcoholism, how we evolve as writers, and the Orlando writing scene. plus Tom McAllister of Book Fight fame reads his personal essay, "A Brief History of World Travel (Part 8): Notes on Baltimore, MD." TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES
Listen to the music of The Bambi Molesters.
Episode 220 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. Save
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Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 12:56am EDT |
Fri, 12 August 2016
Episode 219 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I share a recording of Loose Lips, the monthly current events literary thing hosted by the inestimable Tod Caviness. The line up on that evening was Ryan Rivas, my awesome self, Mary McGinn, Logan Anderson, and Amy Watkins!
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Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 9:44pm EDT |
Sat, 6 August 2016
In this week’s episode, I talk to historian and creative writer Todd James Pierce, plus Heather Whited reads her essay, "The General." NOTE Check out the Disney History Institute.
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Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 1:17pm EDT |
Fri, 29 July 2016
In this week’s episode, I talk with Vanessa Blakeslee about On Writing, a book of selections from Charles Bukowski's letters, plus poet Henry Hughes writes me a letter about his own correspondence with Bukowski back from 1989 and 1991.
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Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 7:27pm EDT |
Fri, 22 July 2016
In this week’s episode, I talk to J. Bradley about his new novel, Jesus Christ, Boy Detective, plus Tom McAllister reads his essay, "A Brief History of World Travel, Part 6." TEXTS DISCUSSED
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Sat, 16 July 2016
In this week's episode, I interview actor and author Lisa Wolpe about her one woman show, Shakespeare and the Alchemy of Gender, plus Mistie Watkins reads her essay "Why I Write."
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Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 12:48pm EDT |
Fri, 8 July 2016
Episode 214: Mixtape 6 (slouching towards a perspiring glass of water, in the quivering shade of the world’s oldest banyan tree)
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Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 10:41pm EDT |
Sat, 2 July 2016
Episode 213 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I share a recording of a joint production of The Drunken Odyssey, The Functionally Literate Reading Series, and the In Between Series: an experimental show called The Pink Fire Revue. This featured the musicians John Curtis, Derek Duda (Dudagruv), Jared Silvia (Pressurewave), and visual artist Ginger Leigh (Synthestruct), and the writers, namely myself, Nicole Oquendo, Mary McGinn, Tod Caviness, &, by proxy, The Terrible Mr. Sundrop. TEXTS DISCUSSED If you like in the city beautiful that is Orlando, do check out Bright Light Books, my favorite local used book store, especially for their overstock sales every Saturday. Episode 213 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
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Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 11:08am EDT |
Fri, 24 June 2016
In this week’s episode, I interview fiction writer and humorist Erik Deckers, plus Emma Atkinson reads her essay, "The Little Maybe." TEXTS DISCUSSED Follow Erik's humor columns here, his professional blog here, or on twitter. Check out Chuck Cannini's review of New York Classical Theatre's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_212.mp3
Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 10:01pm EDT |
Sat, 18 June 2016
In this week’s episode, we have a roundtable discussion of Hunter S. Thompson.
and Dianne Turgeon Richardson. TEXTS DISCUSSED
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Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 1:02am EDT |