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Episode 523: Aaron Angello!

14 Saturday May 2022

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Episode 523 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 Aaron Angello about his new book, The Fact of Memory: 114 Ruminations and Fabrications, the creative benefits of daily ritual, writing (cough) early in the morning, David Lynch, the mysteries of the word and, and ditching academic rules for the Muses.

Aaron Angello by Michael Mason Studios

TEXT DISCUSSED

Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29

When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
(Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven’s gate;
       For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings
       That then I scorn to change my state with kings.


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Episode 522: Ann Hood!

08 Sunday May 2022

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In this week’s episode, I talk to Ann Hood about the challenges of writing nonfiction, the intertwining of feminism and women’s rights and the history of aviation before and after deregulation, the value of non-writing jobs for young writers, and so much more.

TEXT DISCUSSED

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Episode 436: Alex Miller!

07 Monday Sep 2020

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Episode 436 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

On this episode, personal essayist Alex Miller and I talk about the intimate power of the personal essay, pitches, politics, and universities in NYC.

Essays by Alex Miller

  • Read “When I Can’t Progress in my Love Life, I Level Up in Video Games” over at The Washington Post.
  • Read “Facing my Fear: I Was Always Scared of the Dark. Then PTSD Made it Even Worse” over at The Guardian.
  • Read “Kanye Made Me Love Being Black. That’s Why I Can’t Vote for Him” over at The Independent.
  • Read “Growing Up in the Shadow of Emmitt Till” over at The New York Daily News.

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Episode 433: Darin Strauss!

15 Saturday Aug 2020

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Darin Strauss

Photo by Robert Birnbaum.

On this episode, Darin Strauss and I discuss the utility of outlines, the utility of abandoning outlines, love, pain, stream-of-consciousness, love, Lucille Ball, Fred Trump, Coney Island, the semiotic intimacy of television, and love.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

The Queen of TuesdayChang and EngThe Real McCoyMore Than It Hurts YouHalf a LifeThe Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations

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Episode 401: Steve Almond and Carolyn Forché!

11 Saturday Jan 2020

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Episode 401 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing.)

This week, I offer another round of conversations from Miami Book Fair International, in which I talk to Steve Almond about his favorite novel, Stoner by John Williams,

Steve Almond

plus I speak with poet Carolyn Forché about her memoir, All You Have Heard is True.

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TEXTS DICSUSSED

Stoner

What You Have Heard is True

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Episode 398: E. Jean Carroll and Jonathan Safran Foer!

23 Monday Dec 2019

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Episode 398 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing.)

I share two interviews this week. The first is with the great E. Jean Carroll,

and the second is with essayist and novelist, Jonathan Safran Foer.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

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Episode 397: Tim O’Brien, Chris Ware, and Chip Kidd!

14 Saturday Dec 2019

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Episode 397 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

On today’s show, I share two interviews. The first is with the fiction writer and memoirist Tim O’Brien about how to live in this world.

I hope I said something funny here. We did laugh a bit.

The second is with the comic creator Chris Ware and his editor at Pantheon Books, Chip Kidd, with whom we discussed how design meshes with the content of a story.

Chris Ware, your humble host, and Chip Kidd.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

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Episode 385: Gilbert King!

21 Saturday Sep 2019

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Beneath a Ruthless Sun, Devil in the Grove, Gilbert King

Episode 385 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

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In this week’s episode, I talk with historian and crime writer Gilbert King about the history of justice and journalism, the role of luck in research, experimenting with presentation until a passage feels right, and how to manage one’s doubts when pursuing a writing project.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Beneath a Ruthless Sun.jpg

Devil in the Grove

NOTES

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Check out my first interview with Gilbert back on episode 60!

Check out my literary adventure novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

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Episode 377: Liz Prato!

27 Saturday Jul 2019

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Episode 377 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 with Liz Prato about being the best haole possible in Hawaii, the mixing of history and memoir, respecting the natural environment, and other important matters.

liz-prato-author-volcanoes-palmtrees-privilege

Photo by Jill Harriman Browning.

TEXT DISCUSSED

volcanos palm trees privilege

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Episode 364: Elisa Gabbert!

27 Saturday Apr 2019

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Black Ocean, Elisa Gabbert, The Word Pretty

Episode 364 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 with poet and essayist Elisa Gabbert about the excitement of short-form essays, the glories of book design, not reading Moby Dick, and other literary confessions.

Elisa Gabbert

Photo by John King

 

TEXTS DISCUSSED

The Word Prettymoby dick bill sienkiewicz.jpg

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