Sun, 28 April 2024
In this week’s show, John talks with prose writer Michael Korda about telling the historical stories of the poets of World War I.
Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_622.mp3
Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 3:59pm EST |
Sat, 20 April 2024
In this week’s show, John talks with Tyler Mills about her extraordinary multimedia memoir, a poetic people’s history of America’s secretive relationship to the atomic bomb.
Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_621.mp3
Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 11:50am EST |
Sat, 13 April 2024
In this week’s show, John talks with Jared Silvia about the 2023 film, Asteroid City, and look at how Wes Anderson and co-writer Roman Coppola counterbalances surges of emotion with layers of artifice, which is a mixed metaphor, we know.
Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_620.mp3
Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 3:18pm EST |
Sat, 6 April 2024
In this week’s show, John talks with Jessie Red Marshall about her extraordinary short story collection, Women! In! Peril! The topics discussed include how story collections are like mixtapes, how thematic unity occurs brilliantly by accident, and how the interesting questions to ask ourselves in writing fiction is often what about ourselves, as writers, is problematic to ourselves.
Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_619.mp3
Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 4:00am EST |