David Foster Wallace
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Episode 233: A Craft Discussion About David Foster Wallace’s “E Unibus Plurim: Television and U.S. Fiction” with Vanessa Blakeslee!
Episode 233 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 Vanessa Blakeslee about David Foster Wallace’s “E Unibus Plurim: Television and U.S. Fiction.” TEXTS DISCUSSED Read David Foster Wallace’s 1993 essay “E Unibus Plurim: Television and U.S. Fiction” here. Episode… Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas # 49: Lana Del Rey Vs. The Cult of Authenticity
In Boozo Veritas # 49 by Teege Braune Lana Del Rey Vs. The Cult of Authenticity While I never went nuts for Lana Del Rey’s 2012 premier album Born to Die in its entirety, I did become obsessed with the single “Summertime Sadness.” I was captivated by a brand of pop-music that cannot be easily… Continue reading
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Episode 61: Chad Benson, or Quinn W. Shagbark!
Episode 61 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 interview my friend, the fiction writer Chad Benson, who also happens to be a rock musician called Quinn W. Shagbark, plus Jesse Duthrie talks about John Barth’s The Floating Opera. TEXTS DISCUSSED… Continue reading
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Episode 40: Tony Hoagland!
Episode 40 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s show, I talk to the poet Tony Hoagland, Plus Bob Lamb Explains How Ernest Hemingway saved him from Rendition. Texts Discussed Show Notes This episode begins with a limerick written… Continue reading
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Episode 32: Terry Cronin!
Episode 32 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s show, I interview novelist Terry Cronin, And Jean Davis offers one amazing essay about Write is a Verb. Texts Discussed Notes Susan Lilley will be reading from her… Continue reading
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Episode 19: Don Peteroy!
Episode 19 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s show, I interview fiction writer Don Peteroy, K.C. Wilson discusses J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion, And I answer mail while listening to The Intoxicators! Texts Discussed: For my Central Florida listeners: Go see… Continue reading
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Episode 14: Susan Hubbard Interview
Episode 14 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. _______________________________________ On episode 14, I talk to the novelist Susan Hubbard, Nate Rankin discusses David Foster Wallace, and I answer mail. _______________________________________ Texts Discussed _______________________________________ Here is a link to Susan Hubbard’s Reading on September 8th.… Continue reading
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A Midweek’s Blog
Fellow Odysseers of the Word and of the Drink, here’s a midweek update from your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, drinking, and the Life: Episode 6, in which Jaroslav Kalfar and I discuss Stephen King’s On Writing, will appear this weekend. In this book, Stephen King (no relation to me, as far as I… Continue reading
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