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Episode 238: Sarah Sweeney!

17 Saturday Dec 2016

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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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TEXTS DISCUSSED

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

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Episode 234: Sayantani Dasgupta!

26 Saturday Nov 2016

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Episode 234 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 the nonfiction writer Sayantani Dasgupta about creative nonfiction, the romance of reading, and the powerful appeal of the in-between.

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TEXTS DISCUSSED

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Listen to Sayantani’s essay about 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea here.

Episode 234 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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Episode 232: Pamela Skjolsvik!

12 Saturday Nov 2016

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Episode 232 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 the nonfiction writer Pamela Skjolsvik about creative nonfiction, anxiety, and death,

plus I briefly eulogize a triumvirate of entertainers: Leonard Cohen, Robert Vaughn, and Kevin Meaney.

Leonard Cohen Anthem

Caesar 1970 5

Friars Club Roast of Chevy Chase

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Check out Pamela Skjolsvik’s essay about David Sedaris back on episode 50.

Miami Book Fair International‘s amazing weekend street fair will take place on November 19th and 20th.

Episode 232 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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