Episode 30: Francesca Lia Block!

Episode 30 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 weeks show, I interview the fabulous Francesca Lia Block,

Francesca Lia Block

Plus Lillian-Yvonne Bertram reads her poem, “You Can’t Outdrink The Moon, O Sestina, Sestina Who Has Been Drinking.”

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram

Texts Discussed

The Elementals
But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise
Crazy Clown Time
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
This is How You Lose Her
Notes

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram’s poem ”You Can’t Outdrink The Moon, O Sestina, Sestina Who Has Been Drinking” is a remix of Steve Davenport’s “The Sestina Has Been Drinking,” which is available in his new book, Overpass.

Overpass

On January 6th, Ashley Inguanta will perform her debut collection, The Way Home, with musicians Mandy Burgan and Benoit Glazer, and with dancer Christin Carlow.  Find out more here.

The greatest new trend in libraries.

Matt Taibbi’s Readers’ list of 10 most pretentious moments in history.

James Franco is, umm, a poet. [Guardian] [The New York Times]

Episode 30 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.



3 responses to “Episode 30: Francesca Lia Block!”

  1. […] Lia Block (Episodes 30 and 64) is best known for her work in YA literature, as a revolutionary author whose bohemian gypsy […]

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