August 2013
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Versify #1: Brian Turner’s Here, Bullet
Versify #1 by Monica Wendel In Brian Turner’s Here, Bullet (Alice James Books, 2005) some people don’t die, exactly; they are evaporated, or disappear as if they never existed, moving not from living to not-living but from something to nothing “as if even the idea of them were being / destroyed, stripped of form.” For this blog,… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #1: Mastering the Dinner Party, Dialogue, and First Person Narrators
Buzzed Books #1 by Alise Hamilton Mastering the Dinner Party, Dialogue, and First Person Narrators Recommendation: Bobcat And Other Stories by Rebecca Lee Bobcat is a collection of seven short stories so rich and expansive they leave the reader walks away feeling she has read seven novels. Rebecca Lee manages to fit an amazing scope in… Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #1: The Rum Also Rises
In Boozo Veritas #1 by Teege Braune The Rum Also Rises I had intentions of becoming a writer long before it ever occurred to me to become a drunk. Long before alcohol held the appeal of the forbidden, sips of my parents’ beer, wine, and champagne merely tasted bitter or sickeningly cloying. Written words, were… Continue reading
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Episode 60: Gilbert King!
Episode 60 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. This week, I interview the Pulitzer Prize-winning non-fiction writer Gilbert King, Plus Monty Joynes discusses coming across Talks and Dialogues by J. Krishnamurti TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES On Tuesday, August 13th, at Urban ReThink in downtown… Continue reading
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