Episode 307: Brian Turner!

March 31, 2018

Episode 307: Brian Turner!

Episode 307 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 talk to poet, memoirist, and editor Brian Turner about how to build a strong anthology, how working in other media helps our writing, and working with our instincts in the writing process. His latest editing project, The Kiss: Intimacies From Writers, is now available from Norton.

Brian Turner

TEXTS DISCUSSED

The Kiss My Life as a Foreign Country Turner Phantom Noise

NOTES

Learn more about The Ocean Clean Up, one of the beneficiaries of proceeds from The Kiss.
Follow The Kiss column over at Guernica Magazine.
If you live in Orlando, check out Poetry and Prose at the Timicua White House on Wednesday, April 4th.

Episode 307 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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Buzzed Books #86: The Kiss | The Drunken Odyssey

January 29, 2019 at 2:58 am

[…] The Kiss: Intimacies From Writers is a lovely arrangement of vignettes, short stories, essays, and poems. Each is a quick, satisfying read. They all have to do with the act of kissing. More broadly, they are about intimacy. And if bountiful, rapturous show of affection is possible, then there are also festering wounds and forever scars. The body remembers a kiss just as it remembers trauma and violence. Experiences are lasting and they inform the trajectories of lives. So it is refreshing that some of these stories also explore bad kisses, violation, and loss. Major Jackson’s piece is particularly memorable in this respect. He writes about observing a young couple kissing, and admits that their love reaches a part of him “that needs healing.” Even in adulthood, he can move back into his “childhood of violence” like walking “through a door.” […]

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