Sat, 30 March 2024
In this week’s show, John and Nick Georgoudiou discuss Kenneth Patchen's surreal postmodern novel, Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer, before a small crowd gathered at the Kerouac Project of Orlando.
Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_618.mp3
Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 2:38pm EST |
Sat, 23 March 2024
In this week’s show, John talks to Marie Mutsuki Mockett about her exquisite new novel, The Tree Doctor, which leads us to the topics of Japanese literature, The Tale of Genji, and how the ancient world is surprisingly like our own.
Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_617.mp3
Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 4:00am EST |
Sat, 16 March 2024
On today's show, Rachael and I discuss George Saunders's discussion of seven short stories by Russian authors. Since Saunders's book is the result of teaching these stories in MFA craft courses over multiple decades, this book and today's discussion simulates an important part of the MFA experience, for those who wonder what that might be like. The stories:
Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_616.mp3
Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 1:29pm EST |
Sat, 9 March 2024
This ep. features a conversation with Pulitzer prize-winning poet Diane Seuss about her latest book of verse, Modern Poetry. With bursts of internal rhyme about thorny subjects, Modern Poetry awaits the reader with a spirit of mourning and loss and self-creation, which is, for this reader anyway, joyous.
Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_615.mp3
Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 4:00am EST |
Sat, 2 March 2024
Thanks to Brian Salmons for bumpering this replay episode.
Direct download: TDO_Replay_Episode_570_Kathleen_Rooney.mp3
Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 4:00am EST |