Episode 158 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

In this week’s episode, I talk to the historian Julian Chambliss,

plus Dmetri Kakmi writes about how reading Paul Bowles’s The Sheltering Sky taught him how to write about psycho-geographic dis-associations.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

Check out Julian Chambliss’s site here.

Check out John Sims’ site devoted to the Confederate flag project.

Check out the news coverage of the Flag Funerals Project by (in order of decreasing journalistic competence) WESH, WKMG Local 6, and WFTV.

Read The Association for the Study of African American Life and History’s statement about the Massacre at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church here.

Check out the pro-slavery comment made at a diversity panel at CPAC in 2013 here.

To read about the Stop Owlcatraz movement, go here. Read about the car incident here.

Carlton Melton‘s song “Sequoia,” which accompanied Dmetri Kakmi’s essay, appears on their album Pass It On.

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Episode 158 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.