Craft of Fiction Writing
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Episode 696: The Kerouac Project of Orlando Book Club Discussion of William S. Burroughs’s Interzone (with Matt Peters)!
Episode 696 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this show, John and Matt Peters continue The Kerouac Project Book Club with a discussion of William S. Burrough’s third fiction manuscript, Interzone, the cliff before one arrives at Naked Lunch. TEXTS DISCUSSED Continue reading
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Episode 691: A.J. Rodriguez
Episode 691 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, John speaks with fiction writer A.J. Rodriguez, the June-July 2025 Kerouac Project of Orlando resident. NOTES Check out AJ’s story “Papel Picado” over at “The Common.” Learn more about The Continue reading
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Episode 690: Ivonne Lamazares!
Episode 690 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, John speaks with Ivonne Lamazares about her new novel, The Tilting House. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Check out the upcoming offerings from Miami Book Fair. If you’d like to support this Continue reading
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Episode 683: Eugenio Negro!
Episode 683 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. This week, John speaks with the fiction writer, cartoonist, and musician Eugenio Negro about his new novel, Despair Priorities, the long term project, and figuring out what will be deeply satisfying as a writer Continue reading
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Episode 682: A Discussion of Charlotte Brontë’s Tales of Angria, with Sophia Ferrara!
Episode 682 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. Sophia Ferrara joins John down the rabbit hole of Charlotte Brontë’s early private storytelling. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES If you’d like to support this show with a monthly subscription that will feature bonus content, please Continue reading
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Episode 681: The Kerouac Project of Orlando Book Club Discussion of William S. Burroughs’s Queer (with Matt Peters)!
Episode 681 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this show, John and Matt Peters continue The Kerouac Project Book Club with a discussion of William S. Burrough’s second novel, Queer. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Learn more about The Kerouac Project of Orlando. Starting Continue reading
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Episode 679: Keith Mackenzie!
Episode 679 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this episode, John speaks with the novelist Keith MacKenzie about how to plan an unplannable thriller, and how body horror and comedy and existentialism are awfully close neighbors. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES Check out Continue reading
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Episode 675: Tom McAllister!
Episode 675 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this episode, John speaks with Tom McAllister about writing burnout, writing prompts, revision, and discovery, as well as Tom’s wonderful new collection of flash memoirs, It All Felt Impossible. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Check Continue reading
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Episode 673: The Kerouac Project of Orlando Book Club Discussion of William S. Burrough’s Junky (with Matt Peters)!
Episode 673 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this show, John and Matt Peters inaugurate The Kerouac Project Book Club with a discussion of William S. Burrough’s first novel, Junky. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES NOTES If you’d like to support this show Continue reading
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Episode 671: Dmetri Kakmi!
Episode 671 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this show, John speaks with Dmetri Kakmi about holding onto the mysteries of storytelling, the setting of Australia, the wild problem of self, and his wonderful new novel, The Woman in the Well. Continue reading
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