In this week’s episode, I interview Adrian Todd Zuniga, the host of Literary Death Match,

plus Heather Whited writes about how Susanna Clark's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell.

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Learn More about Literary Death Match here.

Get tickets for Litlando here.

In this week’s episode, I talk about Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Poetry as Insurgent Art with Vanessa Blakeslee,

Plus Alice Lowe writes about how Virginia Woolf's A Writer's Diary changed her life.

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Coney Island was much more interesting in 1907 than it turned out to be in 2007 when I visited.

Parachute Literary Arts managed a much better poetic experience at Coney Island.

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Episode 189 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 interview memoir writer J.J. Anselmi,

Plus Patty Hawkins eulogizes David Bowie.

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Check out Drew Perlmutter's kickstarter campaign for his upcoming documentary, US Highway 98: The Florida I Never Knew. He was my cinematographer for The Drunken Odyssey's first documentary, The Weeki Wachee Spectacular.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7Cg6lFnfl4

Patty Hawkin's recommends Bowie's Jazzin for Blue Jean.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXvAaNcXNzI

In this week’s episode, I interview fiction writer Kelly Link,

Plus I share the reading she participated in, "Short Stories, Tall Tales," also featuring Adam Johnson and Padgett Powell.

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• A Quaker high school in Philadelphia has removed Huckleberry Finn from its curriculum.
• Mein Kampf will be published in Germany for the first time in 70 years.
• Neil Gaiman straightened out an impatient George R. R. Martin fan back in 2009, which is perhaps why fans are being nicer to Martin right now, after he missed a deadline for the latest installment of A Song of Ice and Fire.

In this week’s episode, I interview the poet and memoirist Nick Flynn,

Plus I share the reading he participated in about 45 minutes after our interview, a reading that also included Ed Skoog and Denise Duhamel (Episode 134).

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