Episode 305: Jim Shepard & Jennifer Egan!

17 Saturday Mar 2018

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Jennifer Egan, Jim Shepard, Manhattan Beach, The World to Come

Episode 305 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, I share interviews I did with the short story writer Jim Shepard

Jim Shepard

and one of my favorite novelists, Jennifer Egan.

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Jennifer Egan © Pieter M. van Hattem.

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The World to Come Manhattan Beach

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Episode 305 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 302: Cheryl Della Pietra!

24 Saturday Feb 2018

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Cheryl Della Pietra, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, Gonzo Girl, Hunter S. Thompson

Episode 302 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 the novelist Cheryl Della Pietra, an editorial assistant to Hunter S. Thompson in 1992, about the dynamics of working with him, the reality of the actual writer’s life, the dangers of a legendary persona, Hunter’s gift for meta-journalism, the challenges of fiction writing and negotiating a gonzo vision in the service of a non-gonzo narrative, and when to put your work in the drawer and move on.

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Episode 302 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 300: A Craft Discussion of Three Uses of the Knife, with Vanessa Blakeslee!

10 Saturday Feb 2018

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David Mamet, Three Uses of the Knife

Episode 300 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

In this week’s episode, I talk with Vanessa Blakeslee about David Mamet’s Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama. We manage not to kill one another.

Photo by Shawn McKee.

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Episode 300 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 299: Laleh Khadivi!

03 Saturday Feb 2018

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A Good Country, Laleh Khadivi, The Age of Orphans, The Walking

Episode 299 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 the novelist Laleh Khadivi about empathy, anticipating the future, the snarl of time management, challenging oneself as a writer as a form of motivation, the absolute transformation of characters, patriarchal similarities between Middle East and West, the mystical nature of surfing, the fraught possibilities of adolescence, religious fervor, the problematic role of country to identity, and modernity and the immigrant experience.

Laleh Khadivi

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Be sure to check out the music of David Rego, whose songs “Sapphire Showers” and “The Colony” appear on this episode.

Dave Rego

Episode 299 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 291: A Very French Christmas!

09 Saturday Dec 2017

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A Very French Christmas, New Vessel Press, Vanessa Blakeslee

Episode 291 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

In this week’s episode, I talk with Vanessa Blakeslee about the new fiction anthology, A Very French Christmas, from New Vessel Press.

NOTES

Some context for the dubious Dutch tradition of Black Pete.

David Sedaris discusses this in his essay, “6 to 8 Black Men.”

Be sure to check out the music of David Rego, whose song “Harp” appears on this episode.

Dave Rego

Episode 291 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 290: Jacob Shores-Agüello

02 Saturday Dec 2017

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Episode 290 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Jacob

This week I talk to Jacob Shores-Agüello, the resident of the Kerouac House in summer of 2017. We talk about the roles that genres play in the process of mourning, the improvistory games that can create a sense of shared culture, the glory of compression, and how to avoid the musical information car crashes that happen with prose.

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Check out the offerings at the Annie Russel Theatre.

Check out Burrow Press’s latest tome.

Episode 290 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 289: Laurie Stone!

25 Saturday Nov 2017

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Laurie Stone, My Life as an Animal

Episode 289 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

This week I talk to the fiction writer Laurie Stone, and we talk about the need for more craft in experimental work, what New York means for writers, the tricks of memory and aging, and our beloved avant garde forebears.

Laurie Stone
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Episode 289 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 287: A Craft Discussion of Ann Hood’s Morningstar with Vanessa Blakeslee!

11 Saturday Nov 2017

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Ann Hood, Morningstar: Growing Up with Books, Vanessa Blakeslee

Episode 287 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

In this week’s episode, I talk with Vanessa Blakeslee about Ann Hood’s MorningStar: Growing Up With Books.

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Check out my interview with Ann Hood back on episode 242.

If you haven’t yet done so, get ahold of Vanessa’s books!

Episode 287 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 285: Litlando 2017: YA Fiction Panel!

04 Saturday Nov 2017

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Episode 285 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, Sara Nicolas,

sarah nicolas

Christina Farley,

Christina Farley

and Ella Martin

ELLA MARTIN

discuss the world of young adult fiction at Litlando, from February 25th, 2017.

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Episode 285 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 283: Jay Baron Nicorvo!

21 Saturday Oct 2017

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Jay Baron Nicorvo, The Standard Grand

Episode 283 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, I talk about discovering character in the process of novel writing with Jay Baron Nicorvo!

Jay Baron Nicorvo

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Episode 283 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.