Craft of Fiction Writing
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Episode 125: Kent Wascom!
Episode 125 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 the novelist Kent Wascom, Plus Ian Rogers writes about reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES The music accompanying Ian Rogers’s Essay is The Lovely Moon‘s… Continue reading
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The Lists #2: Ten Rules for Revising Fiction by David Madden, and Reasons Why I Don’t Always Follow Them
The Lists #2 by Kevin Bray Ten Rules for Revising Fiction by David Madden (and Why I Don’t Always Follow Them) “Is your style overloaded with archaic or Latinate verbs?” Yes. They irradiate my paragraphs with evidence of my intellectual coruscation and I know editors reject me because they are jealous of my erudition. “Have… Continue reading
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Episode 119: A Craft Discussion About Douglas Glover, with Vanessa Blakeslee!
Episode 119 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 about Douglas Glover’s Attack of the Copula Spiders with Vanessa Blakeslee, plus Sam Slaughter writes about how Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son changed his life. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES This episode featured music… Continue reading
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Episode 114: Maya Sloan!
Episode 114 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 talk to fiction writer and ghost writer extraordinaire, Maya Sloan. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Learn more about the Kerouac House here. Episode 114 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast… Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas # 55: Process This!
In Boozo Veritas # 55 by Teege Braune Process This! A Contribution to the My Writing Process Blog Tour Nathan Holic is something of a renaissance man. He’s a professor, writer, cartoonist, blogger. His first novel Fraternity Man was released last year by Beating Windward Press, and furthermore, he’s now edited three separate, amazing volumes of Burrow Press’s 15 View… Continue reading
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Episode 112: A Craft Discussion About Aristotle’s Poetics, with Vanessa Blakeslee
Episode 112 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 talk to Vanessa Blakeslee about what Aristotle’s Poetics can teach us about fiction writing today, Plus Kevin Bray writes about reading John Gardner’s On Becoming a Novelist. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES This new project–discussing… Continue reading
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Episode 108: Matt Peters!
Episode 108 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 talk to the publisher of Beating Windward Press, Matt Peters, Plus Stephen Scully writes a memoir essay about meeting two baseball legends. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES The deadline for Beating… Continue reading
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Episode 105: Alden Jones!
Episode 105 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 talk to fiction writer and memoirist-extraordinaire Alden Jones, plus Peter Demarco writes about discovering Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES According to The Guardian, Salman Rushdie has won the… Continue reading
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Episode 103: Alan Michael Parker!
Episode 103 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 talk to the fiction writer and poet Alan Michael Parker, Plus Andrew Gretes offers his “Ode to Zorba.” TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Davis Sedaris talked about the Amazon/Hachette battle to Parnassus… Continue reading
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Episode 100: Mailbag Episode 5 (The Dream Child)
Episode 100 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 answer some mail with my friend, David James Poissant, Plus Rose Tran shares a memoir piece about her unpleasantly Proustian relationship to Florida weather. TEXTS DISCUSSED Mary Gordon’s essay… Continue reading
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