Craft of Fiction Writing
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Episode 351: Elliot Ackerman!
Episode 351of 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 speak with the war veteran, journalist, and novelist Elliot Ackerman about composition and revision strategies, and the emotional access points from our own experience to the stories we tell. TEXTS DISCUSSED… Continue reading
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Episode 350: Eleanor Matthews!
Episode 350 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 speak with the Kerouac House’s fall 2018 resident, Eleanor Matthews about Victorian novels, characterization and plots, and the connections between physical activity and creative writing. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Episode 350 of The… Continue reading
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Episode 349: A Craft Discussion of The Birth of Tragedy, with Vanessa Blakeslee and Mark Pisczek!
Episode 349 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 croak with Vanessa Blakeslee and Mark Pisczek about the Apollonian and Dionysian origins of storytelling as explored in Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES If you live in Orlando,… Continue reading
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Episode 348: Ben Fountain, Celeste Ng, and Gary Shteyngart!
Episode 348 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. This week has Miami Book Fair International conversations with Ben Fountain, Celeste Ng, and Gary Shteyngart! TEXTS DISCUSSED Episode 348 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #84: The Job of the Wasp
Buzzed Books #84 by Drew Barth Colin Winnette’s The Job of the Wasp We’re hard in the holiday Season so that means it’s time for ghosts. Slight horror around the holidays seems like a kind of tradition—from A Christmas Carol to Santa Jaws—so I had to maintain the spirit of spirits. This is where The Job… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #83: Rebekah Frumkin’s The Comedown
Buzzed Books #83 by Drew Barth Rebekah Frumkin’s The Comedown Ever since reading One Hundred Years of Solitude, I get excited when I see a family tree at the beginning of a novel. It’s the possibilities a family tree at the beginning signifies: a multi-generational tale so focused on the minutia of family issues and how… Continue reading
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Episode 339: Kimberly Lojewski!
Episode 339 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 to fiction writer Kimberly Lojewski! TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES Check out my interviews with Tony Hoagland back on episode 40 and 132. Episode 339 of The Drunken Odyssey, your… Continue reading
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Episode 337: A Roundtable Discussion of Stephen King’s Danse Macabre!
Episode 337 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 am joined by Dale Lucas, Tom Lucas, and Elise McKenna for a deep dive into Stephen King’s 1981 treatise on the horror genre, Danse Macabre. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES Check out Don… Continue reading
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Episode 335: Jane Ridgeway!
Episode 335 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 to fiction writer Jane Ridgeway about our stories and characters choosing us instead of the other way around, the delicious problem of historical fiction, and what teenagers today like… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #73: Some Hell
Buzzed Books #73 by Aurora Huiza Patrick Nathan’s Some Hell Patrick Nathan’s novel, Some Hell, opens with terrible secrets. Colin, a young boy troubled by his queerness, secretly watches his father hold an unloaded gun to his head and pull the trigger. Colin later sneaks into his father’s empty study, finds the bullets, and loads the gun… Continue reading
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