Craft of Fiction Writing
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Episode 669: Shelley Fisher Fishkin!
Episode 669 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this show, John speaks with the literary scholar, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, who writes lucidly about classic American fiction in readable, important, and enjoyable prose. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES Check out the new comedy special Continue reading
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Replay Episode: Tessa Mellas (2013)
This replay episode 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 replay episode, John talks to to the fiction writer Tessa Mellas, Plus Todd Sentell writes about Huckleberry Finn, A Good Man is Hard to Find, and the Near Death of Literature. TEXTS Continue reading
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Episode 668: Margie Sarsfield!
Episode 668 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this show, John speaks with the literary novelist Margie Sarsfield. In Margie Sarsfield’s debut novel, Beta Vulgaris, a hipster Brooklyn couple take on temporary work at a Minnesota beet farm at harvest time in Continue reading
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Episode 667: Sally Wen Mao and Susan Mauddi Darraj
Episode 667 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this show, correspondent Samantha Nickerson speaks with Sally Wen Mao about her story collection, Ninetails, plus Samantha speaks with Susan Mauddi Darraj about her new novel, Behind You Is The Sea. TEXTS DISCUSSED Continue reading
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Episode 662: Susan Minot and Rufi Thorpe (interviewed by Samantha Nickerson)!
On today’s episode, Samantha Nickerson speaks with fiction writer Rufi Thorpe about her striking novel Margo’s Got Money Problems. In this episode, you learn about more than just Margo’s money problems. Samantha and Rufi discuss Only Fans, wrestling, creating characters, and motherhood’s thorny identity. Samantha then speaks to Susan Minot about erotic obsession, alienation, hyper-thinking, consciously making bad choices, and the presentation of Continue reading
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Video: Laura Van Den Berg & Kent Wascom’s Florida Novels
In LAURA VAN DEN BERG’s State of Paradise: A Novel, a ghostwriter for a famous thriller author is living in her mother’s small-town Florida home, tracking ominous and eerie changes. Contending with family secrets, spotty memories of her troubled youth, a burgeoning cult in the living room, and her suddenly missing sister, she begins to Continue reading
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Episode 660: A Conversation about John D. MacDonald
In this episode, John discusses the career of crime novelist John D. MacDonald (1916-1986) in light of a new posthumous short story, “The Accomplice.” In this interview, John speaks with with Andrew Gulli, editor of The Strand Magazine about the rigors and ethos of editing and publishing and MacDonald’s son and literary executor Maynard about Continue reading
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Replay Episode: Kseniya Melnik!
In this week’s replay episode, John talks with fellow classmate, the fiction writer Kseniya Melnik. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES If you’d like to support this show with a monthly subscription that will feature bonus content, please see TDO’s Patreon page. For excellent tattoos in the Orlando area, check out The Tattooed Society. Follow artist (and show editor) Jeff Wilfong Continue reading
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Episode 657: Daniel Handler, Griffin Dunne, and Ridley Pearson!
This week’s show collects three interviews with prose writers Daniel Handler, Griffin Dunne, and Ridley Pearson in joyful, fun conversations conducted last November at Miami Book Fair. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Learn more about Miami Book Fair. If you’d like to support this show with a monthly subscription that will feature bonus content, please see TDO’s Patreon Continue reading
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Episode 655: Steve Chang!
On this week’s show, John talks to recent Kerouac Project resident Steve Chang about writing humor with vulnerability, complicating the absurdity of the world through grounded fiction, editing fiction for Okay, Donkey, and other literary urgencies. NOTES Check out Steve’s farewell reading at The Kerouac Project of Orlando. If you’d like to support this show Continue reading
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