Creative Nonfiction
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Episode 340: LaTanya McQueen!
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… Continue reading
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Episode 311: 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. Books… Continue reading
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Episode 310: Chelsey Clammer!
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. BOOKS DISCUSSED Episode 310 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about… Continue reading
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Episode 294: Ben Blum!
Episode 294 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 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… Continue reading
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Episode 290: Jacob Shores-Agüello
Episode 290 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. 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… Continue reading
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Episode 279: Leslie Salas!
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. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Leslie Salas currently blogs for The Gloria Sirens, and is an editor… Continue reading
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Episode 261: Sarah Gerard!
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! TEXTS MENTIONED NOTES In Animal: a Beast of a Literary Magazine, here is my essay about the alligator incident at Walt Disney World. Episode… Continue reading
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Episode 245: Tom McAllister!
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. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Follow Bookmark It on Facebook to… Continue reading
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Episode 234: Sayantani Dasgupta!
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. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Listen to Sayantani’s essay about 20,000… Continue reading
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