This week features a live Event on the theme of childhood, with Wilson Santos, Ashley Inguanta, Vincent Crampton, Amy Watkins, and moi, as your humble emcee.

This reading was in honor of Wilson Santos's spoken word film, My Verse, which I talked to him about back on episode 138.

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Check out more about Wilson Santos’ Dominican Republic project, including how to donate, here.

In this week’s episode, I talk to the journalist David Z. Morris,

plus Shin Yu Pai writes about how Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake changed her life.

BOOKS DISCUSSED

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Rest in Peace, E.L. Doctorow.

Check out David Z. Morris's site, here. Check out his Art Basel essay here. Check out his Iowa City music essay, "Only What is Dead Can Live Forever," here.

Check out Shin Yu Pai's poetry and other work here.

On Tuesday, August 11, at 7:00 P.M. at The Gallery at Avalon Island, Jared Silvia, Stephanie Rizzo, Teege Braune, Genevieve Anna Tyrell, and I will read original fan fiction for that month’s installment of J. Bradley’s prose reading series, There Will be Words.

Episode 162 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 talk to the novelist Charles Blackstone,

plus Don Campell about how finding a copy of John Krakauer’s Into the Wild on the Appalachian Trail changed his life.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

The Week You Weren't There

NOTEs

On Tuesday, August 11, at 7:00 P.M. at The Gallery at Avalon Island, Jared Silvia, Stephanie Rizzo, Teege Braune, Genevieve Anna Tyrell, and I will read original fan fiction for that month's installment of J. Bradley's prose reading series, There Will be Words.

On this week’s show, I answer some mail with my friend, David James Poissant,

Plus Amy Watkins reads her poem "Playa Linda."

TEXTS DISCUSSED

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James Tate, rest in very weird peace.

On this week’s show, I answer some mail with my friend, David James Poissant,

Plus Amy Watkins reads her poem "Playa Linda."

TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

James Tate, rest in very weird peace.

In this week’s episode, I talk to the poet Ciara Shuttleworth,

plus Don Royster writes about how Isaac Asimov helped him to appreciate Shakespeare.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

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To read about Ciara's post-residency road-tripping with Flat Jack, here is part 1 and part 2.

To read Thomas Jefferson's original draft of The Declaration of Independence, go here.