2017
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Episode 277: Jaimal Yogis!
Episode 277 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 have a fun conversation with the journalist, surfer, and Buddhist Jaimal Yogis about the provisionality of our knowledge, philosophy, zen, surfing, writing, avoiding preciousness, and the lunacy of the… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #195: Life
The Curator of Schlock #195 by Jeff Shuster Life More like death, lots and lots of death. Welcome to week two of the Museum of Schlock’s Relativity Series, a range of exhibits that dare to ask what’s really out there. Each year Hollywood gives us some inspirational movie about NASA. Whether it’s Gravity, Interstellar, The… Continue reading
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The Lists #32: Hurricane Safety Tips
The Lists #32 by Patrick Jehle Hurricane Safety Tips 1. Stand outside holding a cloth sail. 2. Bag and freeze plenty of swan burgers. 3. Spend all your money before it goes bad in the bank. 4. Consider publishing my work. 5. Think of me and only me. 6. Ask yourself: How is Patrick? What’s… Continue reading
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Episode 276: Tina Giannoukos!
Episode 276 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 speak with the poet Tina Giannoukos about the glorious visibility and flexibility of sonnets, plus Sabrina Napolitano writes about how reading Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay changed… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #194: The Earth Dies Screaming
The Curator of Schlock #194 by Jeff Shuster The Earth Dies Screaming I guess this one doesn’t have a happy ending. I was at the Orlando Science Center a couple weeks back. While I busied myself with building a tall Popsicle stick tower, I tried selling a couple of visiting school children on The Museum… Continue reading
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Aesthetic Drift #15: An Out of Mind Experience (The Excellence of Simon Vance)
Aesthetic Drift #15 by Dale Lucas An Out of Mind Experience: The Excellence of Simon Vance It’s often said that writing should be its own reward. But, here’s the thing that people forget: there is another level of satisfaction and validation attainable only when the book is printed by kind strangers at faraway publishing houses, given… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #61: Shakespeare Behind Bars [The Tempest] (2005)
61. Hank Rogerson’s Shakespeare Behind Bars [The Tempest] (2005) In 1950’s The Liberal Imagination, Lionel Trilling made an extended version of the argument that the liberal arts (including the experience of literature) help extend the imaginative powers of the human condition, which is necessary if society was going to thrive. This theory seems to be supported… Continue reading
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Episode 275: A Craft Discussion of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet with Vanessa Blakeslee!
Episode 275 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 Rainer Maria Rilke’s famous Letters to a Young Poet, plus we pay homage to Rilke’s poetry with readings by Craig Moreau, Hyejung Kook, David Foley, Jason Myers, David… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #193: The Perfume of the Lady in Black
The Curator of Schlock #193 by Jeff Shuster The Perfume of the Lady in Black It ain’t CHANEL No. 5! We’re in week four of Giallo Month here at The Museum of Schlock. Tonight’s movie is The Perfume of the Lady in Black. And it makes no sense. I watched a Fellini movie once. It featured a… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #54: Al Franken, Giant of the Senate
Buzzed Books #54 by John King Al Franken, Giant of the Senate Al Franken has given me great solace over the years. I still buy and drink Ovaltine because the company sponsored his radio show from 2003-2007. For creative people, one intriguing lesson to be drawn from Al Franken’s career is that he was a… Continue reading
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