Creative Nonfiction
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Episode 433: Darin Strauss!
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). 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… Continue reading
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Episode 401: Steve Almond and Carolyn Forché!
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… Continue reading
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Episode 398: E. Jean Carroll and Jonathan Safran Foer!
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… Continue reading
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Episode 397: Tim O’Brien, Chris Ware, and Chip Kidd!
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. The second is with the comic creator Chris Ware… Continue reading
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Episode 385: 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). 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… Continue reading
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Episode 377: Liz Prato!
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. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES This… Continue reading
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Episode 364: Elisa Gabbert!
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. TEXTS DISCUSSED… Continue reading
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Episode 354: Todd James Pierce
Episode 354 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 Todd James Pierce about his new biography of Ward Kimball from an epic corridor of The Wilderness Lodge at Walt Disney World. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Check out… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #85: Permanent Exhibit
Buzzed Books #85 by Drew Barth Matthew Vollmer’s Permanent Exhibit Think of a thought process and all the ways it branches out and around. The thoughts rarely stay in one place or along one singular train of thought for too long. It’s that aspect of his own mind that Matthew Vollmer examines in Permanent Exhibit.… Continue reading
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Episode 348: Ben Fountain, Celeste Ng, and Gary Shteyngart!
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! TEXTS DISCUSSED Episode 348 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available… Continue reading
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