Episode 542: Azar Nafisi!

24 Saturday Sep 2022

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Episode 542 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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This week, I talk with memoirist and literary scholar Azar Nafisi about authoritarianism in Iran and America, and the role literature plays in freedom.

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Read about massive recent protests in Iran.

This episode is released in association with Miami Book Fair.

Check out Episode 535, when Rachael Tillman and I discussed Reading Lolita in Tehran.

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Episode 539: Chelsey Clammer!

03 Saturday Sep 2022

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Episode 539 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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This week, I catch up with longtime friend of the show, the brilliant creative nonfiction writer, Chelsey Clammer.

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Episode 537: Michael Wheaton!

20 Saturday Aug 2022

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Episode 537 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 talk with the writer, publisher, and podcaster, Michael Wheaton.

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Check out Michael Wheaton’s magazine and press, autofocus.

Check out Rachel Kolman’s farewell reading for her Kerouac Project of Orlando residency.

Next weekend, the Orange County Library in downtown Orlando will be holding a literary expo.

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Episode 536: Nona Willis Aronowitz!

13 Saturday Aug 2022

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Episode 536 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 talk with Nona Willis Aronowitz about sex, feminism, and many other things.

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TDO listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to register for a basic account, go here while still logged in to upgrade the account with the discount.

On Saturday, August 13th at 7:30 PM, Rachel Kolman’s farewell reading will take place at the Kerouac Project of Orlando.

Closer to the end of the month, the Orange County Library in downtown Orlando will be holding a literary expo.

Episode 534: Rachel Kolman!

30 Saturday Jul 2022

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Episode 534 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 speak with Rachel Kolman about her immersion in creative non-fiction and her writing life after her UCF MFA.

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TDO listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to register for a basic account, go here while still logged in to upgrade the account with the discount.

On Saturday, August 13th at 7:30 PM, Rachel Kolman’s farewell reading will take place at the Kerouac Project of Orlando.

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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

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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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Check out the new album by Greg Proops, In the City.

Episode 523 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 522: Ann Hood!

08 Sunday May 2022

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Episode 522 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 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.

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Check out my previous interview with Ann Hood, or my discussion of Ann Hood’s Morningstar with Vanessa Blakeslee.

Episode 522 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

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

Episode 433: Darin Strauss!

15 Saturday Aug 2020

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Episode 433 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).

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.

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This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at Scribophile.

TDO Listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to register for a basic account, go here while still logged in to upgrade the account with the discount.

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

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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Stoner

What You Have Heard is True

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This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at Scribophile.

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

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Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction

Episode 542: Azar Nafisi!

Episode 539: Chelsey Clammer!

Episode 537: Michael Wheaton!

Episode 536: Nona Willis Aronowitz!

Episode 534: Rachel Kolman!

Episode 523: Aaron Angello!

Episode 522: Ann Hood!

Episode 436: Alex Miller!

Episode 433: Darin Strauss!

Episode 401: Steve Almond and Carolyn Forché!