Episode 281: A Craft Discussion of Colum McCann’s Letters to a Young Writer with Vanessa Blakeslee!

October 7, 2017

Episode 281: A Craft Discussion of Colum McCann’s Letters to a Young Writer with Vanessa Blakeslee!

Episode 281 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 with Vanessa Blakeslee about Colum McCann’s Letters to a Young Writer.

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NOTES

Colum McCann hosts a lovely Bloomsday reading every year at Ulysses Folk House in downtown Manhattan.

Check out my interview with the late Charlie Bethel, an amazing playwright and performer, back on episode 39.

Episode 281 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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One response to “Episode 281: A Craft Discussion of Colum McCann’s Letters to a Young Writer with Vanessa Blakeslee!”

D J Rout

October 9, 2017 at 12:08 am

Something went wrong with either me or the comment thing last night, so if I successfully posted and tnis repears stuff, I apologise.

Some nice quotes in this episode, though manhy of them seem to be th stuff I was told while studying writing myself. /There were people in my class who seemed to get these things and take away practical writing help, but I never got more than 5% of it. For all that, ‘Cynics have better one-liners than we do’ is a quote to live by, and he’s by and large more intelligible than E M Forster.

On one of the earlier episodes, back when Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize, Ms Blakeslee suggested that it should’ve been some Japanese writer whose name eludes me. Was it Kazuo Ishiguro? If so, her wishes have come to pass.

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