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Monthly Archives: March 2013

Episode 42: Stephen Elliott, Isaac Fitzgerald, & The Rumpus!

29 Friday Mar 2013

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Burrow Press, Cinema, Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, Isaac Fitzgerald, Literature, Orlando Shakespeare Theater, Shakespeare, Stephen Elliott, stephen king, The Rumpus, Theatre, Titus Andronicus

Episode 42 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

This week, I talk to Stephen Elliott and Isaac Fitzgerald of

 Stephen Elliot/Isaac Fitzgerald

plus Astrid Cook writes about Stephen King’s The Stand.

Astrid Cook

Texts Discussed

Happy Baby

The Adderall Diaries

About Cherry

Isaac Fitzgerald’s Why I Agreed to be a Bend-over Boyfriend.

The Stand

Things Fall Apart

Notes

Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s Titus Andronicus runs through April 28.

titus andronicus

Music for this week’s essay provided by Zelda Re-orchestrated.

Chinua Achebe, Literary Titan, dies at 82.

Episode 42 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 41: Emily Brandt!

23 Saturday Mar 2013

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Bachelor Pad Magazine, Bunny Yeager, Craft of Writing, Miami Book Fair International, Writing Podcast

Episode 41 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 the poet and teacher Emily Brandt,

Emily Brandt

Plus Denise Falcone talks about Nabokov’s Ada.

Denise 1

Texts Discussed

The Inside Colocation blog.

Florida’s Blue Ribbon Panel on Higher Education Reform is wrong.

Ada

I love the ad-free dictionary aggregator, wordnik.

The New Yorker Rejects Itself.

Episode 41 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 40: Tony Hoagland!

15 Friday Mar 2013

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Chuck Wachtel, Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, David Foster Wallace, Ernest Hemingway, Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Robert Paul Lamb, Tony Hoagland, Writing Podcast

Episode 40 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 the poet Tony Hoagland,

Tony Hoagland

Plus Bob Lamb Explains How Ernest Hemingway saved him from Rendition.

Bob Lamb

Texts Discussed

Sweet Ruin

Donkey Gospel

What Narcissism Means to MeReal Sofistikashun

Unicorproated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty

Stupid HopeArt Matters Hemingway

Complete Stories of Hemingway

Show Notes

This episode begins with a limerick written and read by Chris Booth, in honor of our pal Steve Kelly:

Just a few, and Steve’s eyes ‘gan to wander;
Then day next he was mute and a-ponder:
When he saw where he woke,
In sad tones, thus he spoke:
“It’s Absinthe makes the heart to grow fonder.”

Tonight, Saturday, and Sunday are the last days in Orlando to see Charlie Bethel’s awesome performance of The Odyssey.

Charlie Bethel's Odyssey
Saturday (March 16th) is also the last day to see this season’s superb Othello at Orlando Shakespeare Theatre.

Othello

Episode 40 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 39: Rick Moody!

06 Wednesday Mar 2013

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Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, Fiction, Homer, Literature, Memoir, Poetry, rick moody, Theatre, Writing Podcast

Episode 39 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 Rick Moody,

Rick Moody

James Best explains why he isn’t afraid of sharks,

James Best

Plus I talk to the playwright and actor Charlie Bethel about his current one man show of The Odyssey.

Charlie Bethel's Odyssey

Texts Discussed

On Celestial Music

The Four Fingers of Death

DemonologyThe Ring of Brightest Angels

Notes

The Drunken Odyssey will be making a pub crawl in Boston this Friday.

AWP Conference

Episode 39 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

The Drunken Odyssey Attends The Odyssey

03 Sunday Mar 2013

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Last night The Drunken Odyssey (i.e., me (John King)) attended Charlie Bethel’s one-man performance of Homer’s The Odyssey at Orlando Shakespeare Theater.

Here is a review of the play for listeners in the Central Florida area.

The Odyssey is one king-hell of an adventure story, but the old, dusty translations and ancientness of the tale and the epic scope can make it seem like a really long, not always-engaging read (if you know Greek, which I sure don’t, perhaps you feel differently).  In this performance, Charlie Bethel makes the story deeply immediate and wildly fun both to hear and to watch.  This show is a masterpiece of both writing, translation, acting, stage setting, and all-around good theater.

Charlie Bethel's Odyssey

Seats start at $17, so if you were thinking of going to the movies in the next two weeks, spend just a little more and get an unforgettable piece of entertainment.  Get yourself to Orlando Shakespeare Theater to see this before it goes away on March 17th.

Episode 38: Matthew Pitt!

02 Saturday Mar 2013

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Chuck Wachtel, Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, Disney, Fiction, Literary Magazines, Literature, Shakespeare, Writing Podcast

Episode 38 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 the fiction writer Matthew Pitt,

Matthew Pitt

plus Pamela Skjolsvik discusses David Sedaris’s Me Talk Pretty One Day.

Pamela Skjolsvik

Texts Discussed

Attention Please Now

Me Talk Pretty One Day

great gatsby

Ishmael Reed’s WSJ blog about Django Unchained.

Kirtsen Holt’s new poem, Taxonomy.

Notes:Othello

Orlando Shakespeare Theatre presents Othello, now through March 16th.

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