Episode 321: A Craft Discussion of Aspects of the Novel, with Vanessa Blakeslee!

June 30, 2018

Episode 321: A Craft Discussion of Aspects of the Novel, with Vanessa Blakeslee!

Episode 321 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 E. M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel as my copy of it crumbled and dissolved. I defend the honor of Henry James at great length from both Forster and Vanessa.

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Episode 321 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Craft of Fiction Writing, Episode

Aspects of the Novel, E. M. Forster

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2 responses to “Episode 321: A Craft Discussion of Aspects of the Novel, with Vanessa Blakeslee!”

D J Rout

July 3, 2018 at 6:14 am

Well, I now no longer know what Aspects of the Novel I read back in my salad days—well, my lager and burger days—but it wasn’t as entertaining as Ms Blakeslee and Dr. King made it sound in this podcast. Well-written, sensible comments on writing can only be found on ‘The Drunken Odyseey’ nowadays, but at least in times past wit and humour could give practical advice on how to get the damn thing written.

I’m off to buy a copy of Forster’s book, once I work out whether it’s pronounced ‘Fawster’ or ‘Forester’.

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1. thedrunkenodyssey
  
  July 9, 2018 at 4:37 am
  
  DJ, my friends call me John, so no Dr. Kings here, please. I hope in rereading Forster that you like his lectures as much as we did.
  
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