Episode 348: Ben Fountain, Celeste Ng, and Gary Shteyngart!

05 Saturday Jan 2019

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Beautiful Country Burn Again, Ben Fountain, Celeste Ng, Gary Shteyngart, Lake Success, Little Fires Everywhere

Episode 348 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

This week has Miami Book Fair International conversations with Ben Fountain, Celeste Ng, and Gary Shteyngart!

Ben Fountain and beverages in the Confucius Institute at Miami-Dade College.

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beautiful country burn again little fires everywhere lake success

Episode 348 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 340: LaTanya McQueen!

10 Saturday Nov 2018

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Episode 340 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 creative nonfiction writer LaTanya McQueen about how our stories sometimes choose us, how to write a really good footnote, and how to try to talk about history and race in America.

LaTanya McQueen

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And it Begins Like This

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Episode 311: M. Evelina Galang!

21 Saturday Apr 2018

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Lola's House: Filipino Women Living with War, M. Evelina Galang

Episode 311 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

On this week’s show, I talk to M. Evelina Galang about writing about the insistence of history, collaborating with other voices, being inspired by our elders, and conveying the true flux of language.

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Books Discussed

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Episode 310: Chelsey Clammer!

15 Sunday Apr 2018

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Episode 310 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

On this week’s show, I talk to essayist Chelsey Clammer about the lyric essay, finding humor in trauma, and being honestly surprising.

Chelsea Clammer AWP

BOOKS DISCUSSED

Bodyhome

Episode 310 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 294: Ben Blum!

30 Saturday Dec 2017

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A Story of Soldiers Family and an Inexplicable Crime, Army Rangers, Ben Blum, Miami Book Fair International, NYU MFA, Ranger Games

Episode 294 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

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In this week’s episode, I catch up with Ben Blum, who was my colleague in a Jonathan Lethem workshop circa 2009, and talk about finding room for earnestness in a postmodern outlook, finding room for pleasure in a world sick with stimulation, and writing a challenging project that changes who you are as a writer.

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Ranger Games

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The music used in this episode was “Sweet Spot,” “Chase,” “Chaotica,” and “As the Dark Wave Swells” by The Bambi Molesters.

All hail Mistie Watkins, content editor of The Drunken Odyssey.

Photo by Shawn McKee.

Have you reviewed us on iTunes yet?

What is some of your favorite literature dealing with the military? Leave comments below.

Episode 290: Jacob Shores-Agüello

02 Saturday Dec 2017

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Jacob

This week I talk to Jacob Shores-Agüello, the resident of the Kerouac House in summer of 2017. We talk about the roles that genres play in the process of mourning, the improvistory games that can create a sense of shared culture, the glory of compression, and how to avoid the musical information car crashes that happen with prose.

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Check out the offerings at the Annie Russel Theatre.

Check out Burrow Press’s latest tome.

Episode 290 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 279: Leslie Salas!

23 Saturday Sep 2017

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Bethany Duvall, Burrow Press, David James Poissant, Denver Publishing Institute, leslie salas, Libretto of the Damned, Madison Strake Bernath, Other Orlandos, Ryan Rivas

Episode 279 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

On this week’s show, I talk editing and publishing and writing and the post-MFA malaise with Leslie Salas.

Leslie Salas

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Leslie Salas currently blogs for The Gloria Sirens, and is an editor at Sweet.

Episode 279 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 261: Sarah Gerard!

20 Saturday May 2017

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Episode 261 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

On Episode 261, I interview the prose writer Sarah Gerard!

Photo by Levi Walton.

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The Promethean Conduit was a hell of a good show!

In Animal: a Beast of a Literary Magazine, here is my essay about the alligator incident at Walt Disney World.

Episode 261 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 245: Tom McAllister!

04 Saturday Feb 2017

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Episode 245 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 the novelist and memoirist Tom McAllister about structuring long-form fiction, the mystery of love, the addictive horrors of football, and other important matters.

Tom McAllister

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Bookmark It

Follow Bookmark It on Facebook to learn more about Brave New Book Club, which is led by Vanessa Blakeslee.

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Episode 238: Sarah Sweeney!

17 Saturday Dec 2016

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Barrelhouse Books, Mike Ingram, Sarah Sweeney, Tell me If You're Lying

Episode 238 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 the essayist Sarah Sweeney about her debut collection, Tell Me If You’re Lying, the impediments and the value the academy can be to writing, and the essential relevance of poetry to the prose arts.

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Read Sarah Sweeney’s essay about cat-fishing musicians here.

Episode 238 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

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