Episode 317: Michael A. Ferro!

02 Saturday Jun 2018

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Episode 317 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 novelist Michal A. Ferro about the midwest and Postmodernism and alcoholism and other matters of interest.

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Condoms & Hot Tubs Release Party

If in NYC on June 16th, enjoy Bloomsday at Ulysses Folk House! I wrote a profile about a past year’s event here.

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Episode 317 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 316: Laura Lee Bahr!

26 Saturday May 2018

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Episode 316 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 fiction writer, screenwriter, and film director Laura Lee Bahr at the close of her residency at the Kerouac Project of Orlando.

Photo by Shawn McKee.

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Condoms & Hot Tubs Release Party

Episode 316 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 314: Tom Stern!

12 Saturday May 2018

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My Vanishing Twin, Tom Stern

Episode 314 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 and filmmaker, Tom Stern.

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I’ll be at two forthcoming events in the City Beautiful.

Laura Lee Bahr will give her farewell reading at the Kerouac House on May 19th at 7:30.

Plus I’ll be reading with the other contributors to this awkward sexcapade anthology!

Episode 314 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

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

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and one of my favorite novelists, Jennifer Egan.

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Jennifer Egan © Pieter M. van Hattem.

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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 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 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.

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Check out the second installment of The Drunken Odyssey’s Unauthorized Film Commentary Series:

Subscribe to TDO’s youtube channel.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.