Craft of Fiction Writing
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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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Episode 652: Jonathan Lethem!
In this week’s show, John speaks with Jonathan Lethem about the pull of Brooklyn and obsession, the craft of guiding the reader through unusual storytelling, and bold balancing acts as storytellers. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Pro-tip: get up early in the morning and write, so you don’t lamely bemoan how little writing you do. For excellent… Continue reading
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Episode 650: C. Michelle Lindley
In this week’s show, John speaks with debut novelist C. Michelle Lindley’s, whose The Nude is a page-turning literary meditation on the madness of the commerce of art and labor and relationships and all sorts of things. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES On December 3rd, The Drunken Odyssey’s writers take over the reading spots in the Loose… Continue reading
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Episode 646: Charles Bock!
On this week’s show, John King talks to Charles Bock about his extraordinary new memoir, how to make grief readable, the everyday struggles of writing and publishing, and the sacred perfection of the film of The Princess Bride. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES This episode’s interview was conducted in association with Miami Book Fair, which will take… Continue reading
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Episode 638: Jennifer Manocherian!
On this episode, John speaks with the screenwriter and novelist Jennifer Manocherian about building characters, planning stories, and the discoveries made while drafting. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES If you are an amazon customer, one way to support this show is to begin shopping with this affiliate link, so that the podcast is granted a small commission on… Continue reading
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Episode 636: Jeff Alessandrelli!
On this week’s show, John talks to Jeff Alessandrelli about his new novel, And Yet. We discuss the existential torment of desire, the problem of overthinking the problem of overthinking, and the role of desire in literature, psychology, and history. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES If you are an amazon customer, one way to support this show… Continue reading
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Episode 633: Todd James Pierce!
On this week’s show John speaks with Todd James Pierce about Larry Watkin and his history with Walt Disney as a novelist, screenwriter, and producer. They explore the 1940s to the 1960s of Watkin’s career and the common themes present throughout his risky live-action Disney projects such as Darby O’Gill, Robin Hood, and Treasure Island.… Continue reading
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Episode 632: A Discussion of Nicholson Baker’s The Anthologist
In this week’s episode, Rachael Tillman and I break some standards of academia as we discuss the poetry insights of Paul Chowder, the narrator of Nicholson Baker’s 2009 comic novel, The Anthologist. Since this is novel is a novel and not, strictly speaking a craft book or a scholarly treatise, we shouldn’t be treating this… Continue reading
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