Episode 288: Will Dowd!

November 18, 2017

Episode 288: Will Dowd!

Episode 288 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

This is a special episode, for Will Dowd, checks in to talk about how he turned his Drunken Odyssey blog, Areas of Fog, into a book! We try to get to the bottom of our editorial relationship, the trick of bypassing or appeasing the gatekeepers among the editors of the literary world, and how the weather affects every aspect of life in New England.

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If you are at Miami Book Fair this weekend, stop by the Burrow Press booth!

Episode 288 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 288: Will Dowd!”

D J Rout

November 18, 2017 at 9:12 pm

What an excellent episode! It was great to hear someone taling non pretentiously about their writing and ver interesting to hear that Will Dowd also suffers from vision impairment (not a phrase I like, but this is for public consumption). So, a low vision writer who likes Raymond chandler – he has filled my niche in the literary ecology. If nis book is an e-book I’ll be leaping out to get it now.

As to discussions about weather, Carson Ritchie in Food and Civilizatin, makes the point that it was the efficiency of American farming in the 18th century that made food so cheap the price of it wasn’t worth discussing, and the weather took over as the opener in conversations. Which begs the question of what we would use if we learn to control the weather, or we’re all under domes where it’s no longer relevant. Maybe “Have you read…?”

Oh, and yet another Elmore Leonard thing that someone should be swiftly kicked for. No adverbs, no weather…all literature will be expressable on the bac of shopping receipt, or a podcast comment 😦

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