On today’s episode, Samantha Nickerson speaks with fiction writer Rufi Thorpe about her striking novel Margo’s Got Money Problems. In this episode, you learn about more than just Margo’s money problems. Samantha and Rufi discuss Only Fans, wrestling, creating characters, and motherhood’s thorny identity.

Samantha then speaks to Susan Minot about erotic obsession, alienation, hyper-thinking, consciously making bad choices, and the presentation of dialogue without quotation marks as they appear in her new novel, Don’t Be a Stranger.

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Residency applications are now open at The Kerouac Project of Orlando.

Kathy Fish’s farewell reading at The Kerouac Project will take place at 7 PM on Friday, February 21.

There is a new video over on TDO’s Youtube channel.

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Episode 662 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).