Episode 327: Adrian Todd Zuniga!

11 Saturday Aug 2018

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Episode 327 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 interview Adrian Todd Zuniga, the host of Literary Death Match, about how to plot a novel, and how he plotted his novel, Collision Theory.

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Check out my previous convo with Adrian back on Episode 190.

Episode 327 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 324: Vanessa Blakeslee!

21 Saturday Jul 2018

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Episode 324 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 short story writing over the long haul, and about her brand new book, Perfect Conditions.

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Plus James Chapin writes about how the King James Bible changed his life.

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Episode 324 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 321: A Craft Discussion of Aspects of the Novel, with Vanessa Blakeslee!

30 Saturday Jun 2018

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Episode 321 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 E. M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel as my copy of it crumbled and dissolved. I defend the honor of Henry James at great length from both Forster and Vanessa.

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Episode 321 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

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.

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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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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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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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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.

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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.