Monthly Archives: October 2012

Episode 21: On the glories of lounges, and what they hold

27 Saturday Oct 2012

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Episode 21 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 discuss mid-century grandeur and men’s magazines and burlesque with Jason Croft, aka Java, editor of Bachelor Pad Magazine.

Plus Beverly Army Williams writes about John irving’s A Widow for One Year.

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On November 1st at 6 P.M., Don Peteroy (Episode 19) will be giving a reading from his new novella, Wally, in room 316 of the University of Central Florida Student Union.

And On Saturday, November 3rd at 7 P.M., he’ll participate in Functionally Literate: A Literary Function, a new reading series organized by Burrow Press and The Kerouac Project, held at Urban ReThink.

From November 11-18l, Miami Book Fair International Will offer a cornucopia of literary culture.

N.B.: Please sign my petition requesting Disney Online to offer Disney historian Jeff Kurtti (our guest on episode 15) something like a straightforward, sensible space to blog in.

Episode 21 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 20: Crossing the Creek with Anna Lillios

20 Saturday Oct 2012

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Episode 20 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 discuss Florida literature with the literary scholar Anna Lillios,

Alison Barker writes about Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Chronology of Water,

And I respond to mail.

Texts Discussed:

On November 1st at 6 P.M., Don Peteroy (Episode 19) will be giving a reading from his new novella, Wally, in room 316 of the University of Central Florida Student Union.

And On Saturday, November 3rd at 7 P.M., he’ll participate in Functionally Literate: A Literary Function, a new reading series organized by Burrow Press and The Kerouac Project, held at Urban ReThink.

N.B.: Please sign my petition requesting Disney Online to offer Disney historian Jeff Kurtti (our guest on episode 15) something like a straightforward, sensible space to blog in.

Episode 20 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 19: Don Peteroy!

13 Saturday Oct 2012

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Episode 19 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 interview fiction writer Don Peteroy,

K.C. Wilson discusses J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion,

And I answer mail while listening to The Intoxicators!

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For my Central Florida listeners: Go see Lauren Butler, TDO‘s announcer,  in Orlando Shakespeare Theatre’s Studio production of The Exit Interview!  Now playing through October 21.

 
For my Boston listeners: on Thursday, October 18th at 7:00pm, Andover Book Store presents, An Evening of Fiction with JULIANNA BAGGOTT and LAURIE FOOS.
 
For my Central Florida listeners (again): Don Peteroy—who is this week’s guest—will be participating in two events.

On November 1st at 6 P.M., he will be giving a reading from his new novella, Wally, in room 316 of the University of Central Florida Student Union.

And On Saturday, November 3rd at 7 P.M., he’ll participate in Functionally Literate: A Literary Function, a new reading series organized by Burrow Press and The Kerouac Project, held at Urban ReThink.

N.B.: Please sign my petition requesting Disney Online to offer Disney historian Jeff Kurtti (our guest on episode 15) something like a straightforward, sensible space to blog in.

 
 
Check out this fine magazine from this week’s sponsor:
 
My short story “The Stars Are Bouncing Tonight” appeared in issue #20.
 
 
Episode 19 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 18: Richard Manchester in Lederhosen + Adam Walck and the Whale!

07 Sunday Oct 2012

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Episode 18 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 novelist Richard Manchester,

The Lederhosen are technically not visible in this shot

Adalm Walck discusses House of Leaves and Moby Dick

Plus I answer some mail while listening to The Necronomikids!

Like the Necronomikids on facebook.

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Please join me in requesting Disney Online to offer Jeff Kurtti something like a straightforward, sensible space to blog in, where his fans can subscribe and be informed of any new posts, and not have to scour Disney Online to find the touching, interesting things that he has written. There is a demand for his writing, even if Disney Online is not sufficiently aware of that.

For my Central Florida listeners: Go see Lauren Butler, TDO‘s announcer,  in Orlando Shakespeare Theatre’s Studio production of The Exit Interview!

Episode 18 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

A Drunken Odyssey Petition

04 Thursday Oct 2012

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Jeff Kurtti is a long-standing historian of Disney’s culture. With works such as Since the World Began: Walt Disney World: The First 25 Years, Walt Disney’s Imagineering Legends and the Genesis of the Disney Theme Park, The Art of Mulan, and many others, the prolific Mr. Kurtti has become an author whose work is much beloved by Disney readers.

For a little while now, he has been writing a Disney history blog called The Wonderful World of Walt for Disney Online. Recently, however, Disney Online decided to discontinue this blog. Presumably, this cancellation was due to low click numbers, but the blog never had anything like an easy-to-find banner, or a sensible blog-layout to look through previous posts by subject, or (and this is key) a way to subscribe to the blog.

Please join me in requesting Disney Online to offer Jeff Kurtti something like a straightforward, sensible space to blog in, where his fans can subscribe and be informed of any new posts, and not have to scour Disney Online to find the touching, interesting things that he has written. There is a demand for his writing, even if Disney Online is not sufficiently aware of that.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/ask-disney-online-to-offer-disney-historian-jeffku/