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Monthly Archives: July 2012

Episode 8, in which John Says Many Things He Oughtn’t

28 Saturday Jul 2012

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Craft of Fiction Writing, Episode, Francesca Lia Block, Literature of Florida, Virginia Woolf

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Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, Francesca Lia Block, Literature, Poetry, Writing Podcast

Episode 8 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

This latest show features an interview with Ashley Inguanta,

Randall Burling exhumes what Roger Corman’s films did to Edgar Allen Poe,

Plus John tries to explain masculinity in this week’s male-bag, err, mailbag…

Texts Discussed:

Some masculine thought, which is slightly representative of some things I discuss in the mailbag: Louis CK, Chris Rock, Bill Maher:


Episode 8 of The Drunken Odyssey is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 7: John, Lisa, and Jaroslav Talk about Films about Writers, Plus Alise Hamilton Discusses Francesca Lia Block

21 Saturday Jul 2012

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Cinema, Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, Francesca Lia Block, Literature, Writing Podcast

Episode 7 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

This latest show features an interview with Lisa Claire Roney and Jaroslav Kalfař talk about films about writers,

Alise Hamilton discusses Francesca Lia Block’s Dangerous Angels,

Plus John listens to the swankness of The Tikiyaki Orchestra, and tries to talk about Hemingway and beer.

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Episode 7 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 6: Stephen King gives John & Jaroslav homework, plus Debbie Weaver writes about Cheryl Strayed’s Wild

14 Saturday Jul 2012

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Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, Fiction, Literature, Writing Podcast

Episode 6 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

This latest show features an interview with Jaroslav Kalfař about Stephen King’s On Writing,

Plus Debbie Weaver discusses Cheryl Strayed’s memoir Wild.

Texts Discussed.

Episode 6 of is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

A Midweek’s Blog

11 Wednesday Jul 2012

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Fellow Odysseers of the Word and of the Drink, here’s a midweek update from your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, drinking, and the Life:

Episode 6, in which Jaroslav Kalfar and I discuss Stephen King’s On Writing, will appear this weekend.  In this book, Stephen King (no relation to me, as far as I know) gives his readers homework, which Jaroslav and I did like good (if petulant) little boys.  Plus Debbie Weaver shares one hell of an essay.

Outside of my narcissistic orbit, Michael Cunningham (of The Hours fame) published a grandiloquent, two-part screed in The New Yorker’s blog on his role as a Pulitzer jurist in this frustrating year without an actual Pulitzer prize winner.

Part 1, a Letter from the Pulitzer Fiction Jury: What Really Happened This Year, offers abundant behind-the-scenes insight into the process of the jury, whose purpose is to select three books out of about three hundred to present to the Pulitzer prize committee as finalists, but doesn’t really explain what really happened, since it is the committee that selects the winner, or the non-winner.  Apparently not all of the protocols were followed by the committee; when a committee refuses all three selections, it is supposed to ask for an alternate, which the jury has at the ready.  But reading Michael Cunningham’s discussion of his passion for reading, and the transcendence of literature, is breathtaking.

Part 2, How to Define Greatness?, puts this travesty into historical perspective, and meditates upon the cultural meaning of the prize itself.

Michael Cunningham won the Pulitzer himself in 1999 for The Hours.

I adore this man, incidentally.  He was especially kind to me when I was an MFA student at NYU.  Of course, it helped that I snagged him a glass of wine before the MFA students guzzled all of it down at the reception after his reading.

One of the Pulitzer finalists this year was David Foster Wallace for his posthumous novel, The Pale King.  I have to confess that I have not yet read this book.  To me, David Foster Wallace simply means too fucking much to come even close to saying goodbye to.  To me, DFW is is like what John Lennon was to hippies, what Kurt Cobain was to Generation X.  Through his writing, Wallace taught me that I could be smart and silly and grand and emotional and somehow sincere in this unbelievably exhausted, pre-bought-and-sold culture.  As Wallace Stevens said of poetry, David Foster Wallace helped me to live.  He still does.

I still haven’t read DFW’s Everything and More (his tome on the idea of infinity [2003]), nor his commencement speech (published as This is Water [2009]) or all the stories in Oblivion (2004).  I must brace myself for the posthumous release of his essay collection, Both Flesh and Not (which drops on November 27).  I need the idea that there is still a new DFW book out there for me to read.  That’s not too crazy, is it?

In September, Urban ReThink in downtown Orlando will be having an evening of DFW readings.  I will be there, and hopefully I will be quite drunk.

If you get the chance, get a hold of the audio-book of Consider the Lobster.  It’s a delicious companion.

That’s all until this weekend, gang.

As ever,

John

Episode 5: Human Tetris, Poetry, Disney’s Greatest Horror Flick, and an Invocation to The Intoxicators!

07 Saturday Jul 2012

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Episode 5 of is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

This latest show features an interview with the poet Monica Wendel,

an essay by Olivia Kate Cerrone about The Watcher in the Woods,

plus John, after invoking the music of The Intoxicators, responds to mail!

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Episode 5 of is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

A Recommendation: What It’s Like Living Here — From Lisa Roney in Orlando

01 Sunday Jul 2012

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Dear Listeners,

Lisa Claire Roney, our guest from Episode 3, recently published a “What It’s Like Living Here” essay in numerocinqmagazine.  While I seldom agree with what writers say about Florida, Lisa’s work here is revelatory, accurate, and quite gorgeously written.

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