Episode 568: A Conversation about Albert Camus’s “The Guest” with Chelsea Alice

18 Saturday Mar 2023

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Episode 568 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).

Chelsea Alice gave me homework, to read “The Guest” by Albert Camus, the result of which is this existentialist episode, or something like that.

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Episode 566: Ciera Horton McElroy!

04 Saturday Mar 2023

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This week, I speak with Ciera Horton McElroy about following through with long form fiction and her extraordinary debut, Atomic Family.

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Episode 562: Mike Nagel!

04 Saturday Feb 2023

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This week, I speak with fiction writer Mike Nagel about comic existentialism, alcoholic literature, and the class complexities of real estate.

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Episode 561: Felicia Berliner and Deb Rogers, interviewed by Samantha Nickerson

28 Saturday Jan 2023

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Episode 561 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).

This week, Samantha Nickerson talks to Felicia Berliner about her new novel, Shmutz, and the challenges of existing within multiple identities,

plus Samantha Nickerson talks to Deb Rogers about her new novel, Florida Woman, group-think, cults, and lots of monkeys.

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Episode 554: Chrissy Kolaya!

03 Saturday Dec 2022

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On this week’s program, I talk to the poet and novelist Chrissy Kolaya about the creative process, psychology, and the multitudinous tensions of being an American.

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Episode 552: A Celebration of Salman Rushdie and Miami Book Fair!

18 Friday Nov 2022

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Miami Book Fair, Salman Rushdie, The Golden House, The Old Man in the Piazza

Episode 552 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 program, I talk to Chelsea Alice about Salman Rushdie’s playful parable from 2020, “The Old Man in the Piazza,” published in The New Yorker, plus I share Salman Rushdie’s 2017 event from Miami Book Fair, in which he reads from his novel, The Golden House.

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A link to “The Old Man in the Piazza” is here.

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Episode 550: Jonathan Ames!

05 Saturday Nov 2022

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On this week’s program, I talk to the fiction writer and former memoirist Jonathan Ames.

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This episode is released in association with Miami Book Fair.

Check out Episode 312, in which I interviewed Gerald Stern.

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Episode 544: Ryan Rivas!

04 Tuesday Oct 2022

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This week, I speak with my friend and colleague Ryan Rivas about his new experimental memoir, Nextdoor in Colonialtown.

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Episode 541: Marie Myung-Ok Lee!

19 Monday Sep 2022

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This week, Samantha Nickerson speaks with novelist Marie Myung-Ok Lee about the musicality of novel-writing, and discovering the shape a novel requires despite one’s intentions.

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Check out Building Stepford Wives, a fun online resource that dives into this classic work by Ira Levin.

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Episode 538: A Discussion of John Bois’s “17776” with Chelsea Alice!

28 Sunday Aug 2022

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17776, John Bois, Postmodernism, What Football Will Look Like in the Future

Episode 538 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).

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This week, the brilliant Chelsea Alice & I discuss John Bois’s postmodern masterpiece, “17776,” which is partially about what football will look like in the time of the singularity. Probably no other fiction has made such utility out of the resources and mechanics of the internet for a reading experience.

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