Craft of Fiction Writing
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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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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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