Episode 466: Maxim Loskutoff!

03 Saturday Apr 2021

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Episode 466 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).

In this week’s show, I speak with Maxim Loskutoff about Montana and the messy importance of setting, the fecund symbolism of reality, and attending NYU’s creative writing program.

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Learn more about O, Miami here.
Check out my literary adventure novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

Episode 460: Gwen Mullins!

20 Saturday Feb 2021

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Episode 460 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).

In this week’s episode, fiction writer Gwen Mullins and I discuss many, many things from the front of the Kerouac Project of Orlando’s porch.

Photo by Geoff Benge.

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Poet Danez Smith will perform an online masterclass on Friday February 26 at 6pm, and an virtual reading on Saturday, February 27 at 4pm p.m. At the event, hosted by Valencia College and the University of Central Florida, Smith will read from their newest book, “Homie,” recently named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award. Registration for both events is available at https://tinyurl.com/smithdanez

Learn more about the residency program of The Kerouac Project of Orlando here.

Episode 459: Nicklaus Rupert!

14 Sunday Feb 2021

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Episode 459 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).

In this week’s episode, Nicklaus Rupert and I discuss the PhD in Creative Writing, the creative and professional benefits of working for a literary magazine, how working in a cinema house can turn one into a storytelling curmudgeon, and the responsibilities of using the trope of Floridian tackiness.

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TDO Listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to register for a basic account, go here while still logged in to upgrade the account with the discount.

Learn more about the residency program of The Kerouac Project of Orlando here.

Episode 456: Lily Brooks-Dalton!

23 Saturday Jan 2021

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Episode 456 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).

In this week’s show, Janna Benge and I talk to Lily Brooks-Dalton about the experience of having her novel adapted into a prominent Netflix flick, how to enjoy letting a story take a new life with another creator, what the running time of a film means for a film’s meaning, what film adaptations can teach a novel writer, and what film and television writing can do for a writer’s creative momentum.

Lily Brooks-Dalton.

Janet Benge.

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Learn more about the Kerouac Project of Orlando here.

Episode 455: Elif Shafak!

16 Saturday Jan 2021

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Episode 455 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).

In this week’s show, I talk to the novelist Elif Shafak about the importance of the structure of literary novels, the sublime oddity of the mind, how politics deepen literature (so long as politics don’t drive literature), how research itself generates creativity, and how inclusive literature is the richest literature.

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Episode 446: Phil Klay!

14 Saturday Nov 2020

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Episode 446 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).

Photo by Hannah Dunphy.

On this week’s show, fiction writer and veteran Phil Klay and I discuss finding the right form for a novel, war literature, and winning the National Book Award.

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TDO Listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to register for a basic account, go here while still logged in to upgrade the account with the discount.
Starting on Nov 15, register with Miami Book Fair Online in order to stream its free events, including a debut poet panel moderated by yours truly.

Check out my literary adventure novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

Episode 440: Dmetri Kakmi!

03 Saturday Oct 2020

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Episode 440 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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On this week’s show, I talk to Dmetri Kakmi about existentialism in horror, the performance of identity, the structure of memoir, and many other things.

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TDO Listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to register for a basic account, go here while still logged in to upgrade the account with the discount.

Check out The Diaries of a Sozzled Scribbler, as transcribed by Dmetri.

Check out my literary adventure novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

Episode 439: Chuck Palahniuk!

26 Saturday Sep 2020

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Adjustment Day, Chuck Palahniuk, Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life after Which Everything Was Different, Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Stranger Than Fiction, The Invention of Sound

Episode 439 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).

On this week’s show, I talk to novelist Chuck Palahniuk about The Invention of Sound, Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life after Which Everything Was Different, Adjustment Day, the 18-month rule, how to stay productive, how to keep invested in the work, the genius of Ira Levin, the value of mentors, and how to remix Invisible Monsters.

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TDO Listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to register for a basic account, go here while still logged in to upgrade the account with the discount.

Check out Episode 332, when Vanessa Blakeslee and I discussed Chuck’s Stranger Than Fiction.

Check out my literary adventure novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

Episode 433: Darin Strauss!

15 Saturday Aug 2020

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Episode 433 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).

Photo by Robert Birnbaum.

On this episode, Darin Strauss and I discuss the utility of outlines, the utility of abandoning outlines, love, pain, stream-of-consciousness, love, Lucille Ball, Fred Trump, Coney Island, the semiotic intimacy of television, and love.

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This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at Scribophile.

TDO Listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to register for a basic account, go here while still logged in to upgrade the account with the discount.

Check out my literary adventure novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

Episode 429: Lindsay Ellis!

18 Saturday Jul 2020

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Episode 429 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).

Photo by Emily VanDerWerf.

In this week’s show, I talk to novelist and video essayist Lindsay Ellis about science fiction; the structure of novels; exploring character interiority; alien invasion narratives; Chomskyian linguistics; the joys of making academic arguments about pop culture outside the academy; Transformers; and author platforms.

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This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at Scribophile.

TDO Listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to register for a basic account, go here while still logged in to upgrade the account with the discount.

Check out Lindsay Ellis’s youtube channel!

Or these vids.