Episode 494: Lindsay Ellis!

19 Tuesday Oct 2021

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Episode 494 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 today’s show, I talk to science fiction novelist Lindsay Ellis!

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Episode 489: Aimee Bender!

13 Monday Sep 2021

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Episode 489 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 Mark Miller.

In this week’s show, I talk to fiction writer Aimee Bender about the subterranean connections that literary fiction makes between one and oneself, and between one and others; the difficult epistemology of sanity; the possibility of fiction not driven by interpersonal conflict; and other subjects of interest.

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This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at Scribophile.

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Check out the dates for this year’s Miami Book Fair.

Episode 486: Jan Elizabeth Watson!

21 Saturday Aug 2021

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Episode 486 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 Jan Elizabeth Watson about a great many things.

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

Episode 484: James Tate Hill!

07 Saturday Aug 2021

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Episode 484 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 interview fiction writer and memoirist, James Tate Hill.

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This Wednesday night at 6 PM EST via zoom, a version of the Whose Line Is It Anyway cast will be performing ‘Whose Governor is DeSantis Anyway?’ to benefit Ron Be Gone, a Super PAC formed to defeat Ron DeSantis in the next election. Greg Proops, Colin Mochrie, and Ryan Stiles will be there, along with Stephanie Murphy and Candidates Charlie Crist and Nikki Fried.
Check out my literary adventure novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

Episode 475: Kathleen Rooney!

05 Saturday Jun 2021

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Episode 475 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 Kathleen Rooney about finding the spark to begin stories, the shape for long-form narratives, and the whimsy to make discoveries along the way.

Photo by Beth Rooney.

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

Episode 471: A Discussion of Kurt Vonnegut’s Pity the Reader with Leslie Salas!

08 Saturday May 2021

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Episode 471 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, Leslie Salas and I discuss Kurt Vonnegut’ and Suzanne McConnell’s compendious Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style.

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

Episode 471 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).

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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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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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 Kerouac Project of Orlando here.