In this week’s episode, I talk to the journalist and historian, Bob Kealing,

plus Heather Whited reads her essay, "Onigiri, Shirasagi, and Me."

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NOTES

 The Daytona News-JournalThe Daytona News-Journal documented Edward Albee's involvement with the Atlantic Center for the Arts.

On September 30th, Richard Blanco is coming to Valencia College for the Winter Park Writers’ Festival. Richard Blanco’s reading is FREE, but you MUST reserve a seat via the Festival’s Eventbrite page.

EVENT DETAILS

• Location: Winter Park Campus, Valencia College, 850 W Morse Blvd, Winter Park, FL 32789, Rooms 237/2424
• 4 PM: Community Writing Class with Richard Blanco
  
• 5:30 PM: Open Mic Reading (Emceed by John King)
  
• 7:00 PM: Richard Blanco Reading
  

You can find my interview with Richard Blanco back on episode 76.

The deadline for submissions for Condoms and Hot Tubs Don't Mix is fast approaching.

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In this week’s episode, I talk with Vanessa Blakeslee about Virginia Woolf’s "Modern Fiction" and "Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown,"

plus Mingzhao Xu writes about Diana Gabaldon's Outlanders series changed her life.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

Suki Kim's nuanced take on what happened in Brisbane can be read at The New Republic.

Lionel Shriver's "Identity Politics and Fiction" can be read at The Guardian.

On September 30th, Richard Blanco is coming to Valencia College for the Winter Park Writers’ Festival. Richard Blanco’s reading is FREE, but you MUST reserve a seat via the Festival’s Eventbrite page.

EVENT DETAILS

• Location: Winter Park Campus, Valencia College, 850 W Morse Blvd, Winter Park, FL 32789, Rooms 237/2424
• 4 PM: Community Writing Class with Richard Blanco
  
• 5:30 PM: Open Mic Reading (Emceed by John King)
  
• 7:00 PM: Richard Blanco Reading

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In this week’s episode, I talk to the novelist Vu Tran about the appeal of detective fiction, the importance of literary substance over style, the problem with femme fatale characters, the Iowa MFA experience, and many, many other things,

plus Jared Silvia sings another Woody Guthrie number in honor of Labor Day, as part of his annual Labor Day musical project.

TEXT DISCUSSED

NOTES

On September 30th, Richard Blanco is coming to Valencia College for the Winter Park Writers' Festival.

Richard Blanco's reading is FREE, but you MUST reserve a seat via the Festival's Eventbrite page.

EVENT DETAILS

• Location: Winter Park Campus, Valencia College, Rooms 237/2424
• 4 PM: Community Writing Class with Richard Blanco
  
• 5:30 PM: Open Mic Reading (Emceed by John King)
  
• 7:00 PM: Richard Blanco Reading
  

In this week’s episode, I talk to the poet and novelist Ryler Dustin near the end of his residency at the Kerouac House in Orlando, after a weeklong tour of weddings.

We speak about the horrors of what happens to poetry in educational environments, the dawning sense of contemporary poetry as a form of play and life, as opposed to some kind of stillborn puzzle. Ryler also talks about the poetic impulse overtaking him before he even knew what poetry was, and walks me through his experience in slam poetry and MFA life, and the creative writing PhD, and the drive to move beyond genres. For some reason, I bring up my favorite bit of dialogue from the movie Major League despite Bull Durham being a much better movie. The role of honesty and novelty in writing also brilliantly come up. (We were both sober.)

NOTES

• On September 30th, Richard Blanco is headed to Valencia College for its 2016 Winter Park Writers Festival.
• Rest in peace, Mr. Sundrop (Episode 213), or else let your caterwauls join the heavenly chorus.

Episode 222 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.