Episode 100: Mailbag Episode 5 (The Dream Child)

Episode 100 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

On this week’s show, I answer some mail with my friend, David James Poissant,

PoissantPlus Rose Tran shares a memoir piece about her unpleasantly Proustian relationship to Florida weather.

Rose Tran

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Mary Gordon’s essay Moral Fiction.

Frederick Barthelme’s list of writing tips, 39 Steps.

Darin Strauss’s Notes on Narrative.

Elmore Leonard’s Ten Rules of Writing.

introducing Cultural Studies

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Class

The Restraint of Beasts

Harlan Ellison’s I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.

On Episode 2Jaroslav Kalfař and I discussed John Gardner’s The Art of Fiction.

On Episode 6Jaroslav Kalfař and I discussed Stephen King’s On Writing

NOTES

Amazon is acting so dickish with Hachette that even USA Today is reporting on it.


Episode 100 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.



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