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Episode 12: What’s on an Editor’s Mind? Find out.
Episode 12 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In it, I interview with the vagabonding editor of Palooka, Jonathan Starke. Plus Rusty Kjarvik takes us on an Odyssey of the mind with Nikos Kazantzakis’s verse. And in this week’s mailbag, I talk about… Continue reading
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Episode 11: Mitchell S. Jackson, plus Robert Kingett Discusses Wordsworth
Episode 11 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. The latest features an interview with fiction writer and essayist Mitchell S. Jackson, Robert Kingett discusses William Wordsworth, Plus I valiantly try to answer your mail. N.B.: Infinite thanks to Christopher Booth, who… Continue reading
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Read the Iris Interview of Episode 10 Essayist, Claude Clayton Smith!
Read Claude Clayton Smith’s Iris interview here. Continue reading
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Episode 10: Laren McClung, plus Claude Clayton Smith Discusses John Updike
Episode 10 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. This latest show features an interview with the poet Laren McClung, plus Claude Clayton Smith discusses John Updike. Texts Discussed: Episode 10 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature,… Continue reading
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Episode 9: John, Lisa, and Jaroslav Talk about More Films about Writers, Plus Krista Graham Discusses Dickens
Episode 9 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. This latest show features an interview with Lisa Claire Roney and Jaroslav Kalfař finish their talk about writer films that they begun in episode 7. Plus Krista Graham discusses David Copperfield. Texts Discussed: The BBC’s Fear &… Continue reading
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Episode 8, in which John Says Many Things He Oughtn’t
Episode 8 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. This latest show features an interview with Ashley Inguanta, Randall Burling exhumes what Roger Corman’s films did to Edgar Allen Poe, Plus John tries to explain masculinity in this week’s male-bag, err, mailbag… Texts… Continue reading
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Episode 7: John, Lisa, and Jaroslav Talk about Films about Writers, Plus Alise Hamilton Discusses Francesca Lia Block
Episode 7 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. This latest show features an interview with Lisa Claire Roney and Jaroslav Kalfař talk about films about writers, Alise Hamilton discusses Francesca Lia Block’s Dangerous Angels, Plus John listens to the swankness of The Tikiyaki Orchestra, and… Continue reading
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Episode 6: Stephen King gives John & Jaroslav homework, plus Debbie Weaver writes about Cheryl Strayed’s Wild
Episode 6 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. This latest show features an interview with Jaroslav Kalfař about Stephen King’s On Writing, Plus Debbie Weaver discusses Cheryl Strayed’s memoir Wild. Texts Discussed. Episode 6 of is available on iTunes, or right click here to… Continue reading
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A Midweek’s Blog
Fellow Odysseers of the Word and of the Drink, here’s a midweek update from your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, drinking, and the Life: Episode 6, in which Jaroslav Kalfar and I discuss Stephen King’s On Writing, will appear this weekend. In this book, Stephen King (no relation to me, as far as I… Continue reading
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Episode 5: Human Tetris, Poetry, Disney’s Greatest Horror Flick, and an Invocation to The Intoxicators!
Episode 5 of is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. This latest show features an interview with the poet Monica Wendel, an essay by Olivia Kate Cerrone about The Watcher in the Woods, plus John, after invoking the music of The Intoxicators, responds to mail! Texts Discussed: Episode 5 of is available on iTunes, or right… Continue reading
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