Episode 42 is here.

This week, I talk to Stephen Elliott and Isaac Fitzgerald of The Rumpus, 

plus Astrid Cooke writes about Stephen King's The Stand.

Texts Discussed

Isaac Fitzgerald's Why I Agreed to be a Bend-over Boyfriend.

Notes

Orlando Shakespeare Theater's Titus Andronicus runs through April 28.

Music for this week's essay provided by Zelda Re-orchestrated.

Chinua Achebe, Literary Titan, dies at 82.

Episode 41 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

On this week’s show, I talk to the poet and teacher Emily Brandt,

Plus Denise Falcone talks about Nabokov's Ada.

Texts Discussed

The Inside Colocation blog.

I love the ad-free dictionary aggregator, wordnik.

The New Yorker Rejects Itself.

On episode 40, I talk to the poet Tony Hoagland,

Plus Bob Lamb Explains How Ernest Hemingway saved him from Rendition.

Texts Discussed

Show Notes

This episode begins with a limerick written and read by Chris Booth, in honor of our pal Steve Kelly:

Episode 39 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is now available.

On this week’s show, I talk to Rick Moody,

James Best explains why he isn't afraid of sharks,

Plus I talk to the playwright and actor Charlie Bethel about his current one man show of The Odyssey.

Texts Discussed

Notes

The Drunken Odyssey will be making a pub crawl in Boston this Friday.

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”

Notes:

Orlando Shakespeare Theatre presents Othello, now through March 16th.