Episode 460 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).
In this week’s episode, fiction writer Gwen Mullins and I discuss many, many things from the front of the Kerouac Project of Orlando’s porch.
Photo by Geoff Benge.
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Poet Danez Smith will perform an online masterclass on Friday February 26 at 6pm, and an virtual reading on Saturday, February 27 at 4pm p.m. At the event, hosted by Valencia College and the University of Central Florida, Smith will read from their newest book, “Homie,” recently named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award. Registration for both events is available at https://tinyurl.com/smithdanez
Learn more about the residency program of The Kerouac Project of Orlando here.
What a great author photo!
Anyway, I’m happy to be one of the few, the proud who contributed to your $47. It was money well spent. Very glad to hear there’ll be a new one out one of these days, so sing out on the podcast if and when it’s available for pre-order.
Some interesting comments from Ms Mullins about how the South is changing. I would say that if Florida is not, or no longer, a Southern state, then neither is Texas, since the ethnic mix is much the same – well, fewer New Yorkers there, but it’s kind of the same. As to a Florida accent, I think the people in and around Jacksonville have it, although so many regional accents are dying, swamped by social media and easy migration.
You couldn’t’ve asked for better background noise in the talk about bullies. There’s the ghost of Jack Kerouac at play.
There were many other things she spoke about, but I don’t want to lengthen this comment too much. There’ve been a good set of authors on lately – keep that up!