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Category Archives: David James Poissant

Episode 100: Mailbag Episode 5 (The Dream Child)

24 Saturday May 2014

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David James Poissant, Rose Tran

Episode 100 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 answer some mail with my friend, David James Poissant,

PoissantPlus Rose Tran shares a memoir piece about her unpleasantly Proustian relationship to Florida weather.

Rose Tran

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Mary Gordon’s essay Moral Fiction.

Frederick Barthelme’s list of writing tips, 39 Steps.

Darin Strauss’s Notes on Narrative.

Elmore Leonard’s Ten Rules of Writing.

introducing Cultural Studies

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Class

The Restraint of Beasts

Harlan Ellison’s I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.

On Episode 2, Jaroslav Kalfař and I discussed John Gardner’s The Art of Fiction.

On Episode 6, Jaroslav Kalfař and I discussed Stephen King’s On Writing. 

NOTES

Amazon is acting so dickish with Hachette that even USA Today is reporting on it.


Episode 100 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 89: David James Poissant!

16 Sunday Mar 2014

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Bill Knott, David James Poissant, High Fidelity, Max Bakke, Nick Hornby, The Heaven of Animals, UCF

Episode 89 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 fiction writer David James Poissant,

David James Poissant

Plus Max Bakke writes about Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity.

Max Bakke

TEXTS DISCUSSED

The Heaven of Animals

High Fidelity

Read David James Poissant’s “I Want to be Friends with Republicans” here.

NOTES

OST’s William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar can be seen from March 19 – April 20, 2014. Go here for more details.

Caesar

Anne Hering, Esau Pritchett, Paul Bernardo, from Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s forthcoming production of Julius Caesar.

Episode 89 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 81: Mailbag Episode 4 (A New Hope)

18 Saturday Jan 2014

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Dan Lauer, David James Poissant, John King, Parliament House, Standing Straight, The Mysteries of Pittsburg

Episode 81 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 answer some mail with my friend, David James Poissant,

David James Poissant

Plus Dan Lauer writes about “standing straight.”

Dan Lauer

 NOTES

According to The Guardian, the short list for the Hatchet Awards has been announced.

John King Poster

The Heaven of Animals, the forthcoming collection from friend-of-the-show David James Poissant, is available for pre-order. Please support the launch of this exquisite collection.

The Heaven of Animals

TEXTS DISCUSSED

What The World Will Look Like

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

You Shall Know Our Velocity

Episode 81 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 71: Mailbag Episode 3 (The Guermantes Way)

19 Saturday Oct 2013

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Dan Lauer, David James Poissant

Episode 71 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 answer some mail with my friend, David James Poissant,

David James Poissant

Plus Dan Lauer writes about a unique book that changed his life.

Dan Lauer

 NOTES
R.I.P., Oscar Hijuelos.
The Heaven of Animals, the forthcoming collection from friend-of-the-show David James Poissant, is available for pre-order. Please support the launch of his book, which is remarkable fucking reading.

The Heaven of Animals

Orlando Shakespeare Theater presents Dracula: The Journal of Jonathan Harker, from October 9 – November 10, 2013.

Dracula

Episode 71 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 62: Mailbag Episode 2 (Electric Boogaloo)

17 Saturday Aug 2013

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Christopher Bolton, Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, David James Poissant, Jared Silvia, Pussy Riot, The Gallery at Avalon Island, Writing Podcast

Episode 62 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 answer some mail with my friend, David James Poissant,

David James Poissant

Plus Jared Silvia reads his amazing new essay, “City of Ghosts.”
 
Jared Sylvia
 
TEXTS DISCUSSED
 

Archy and Mehitabel

Fun Home

 

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

NOTES

• Think about helping Beating Windward Press fund new art for its Doc Voodoo pulp fiction series. The swag is considerable, like this t-shirt.

DocVoodooT

• Members of Pussy Riot! are serving time in a Russian jail for the charge of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred.” What they did was perform “Mother of God, Drive Putin Away” in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. While these women are rightly venerated as warriors of free speech, and the phrase “Free Pussy Riot!” is now famous as a movement. What I learned this week, though, is that besides all of that, their music also happens to be fucking wild and should be respected by anyone who has an ear for punk.

Listen to their EP, Kill the Sexist.


Episode 62 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 51: Mailbag Episode 1, with David James Poissant

02 Sunday Jun 2013

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Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, Fiction, Poetry, Writing Podcast

Episode 51 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 answer some mail with my friend, David James Poissant,

David James Poissant

Plus Cathy Day Addresses The Man Who Called Her On the Phone Asking for Advice About How to Get Published.

Cathy Day

Notes

Cathy Day’s essay first appeared on her blog, right here.

If you are in Central Florida on June 16th, come celebrate Bloomsday with us!

Bloomsday 2013

Book Fight’s Exceedingly Accurate Blurb:

“The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life is a supernova, an interstellar jamboree of colors and lights, like the twirling dresses of a troupe of champion folk dancers, like being imprisoned in Ace Freeley’s amp, throbbing like the veins in Jehovah’s hard-on.  You can look, but you can’t touch, and also, you can’t look, because if you do, you will turn to stone, and your guts will turn to marble.”

According to The Times, there was controversy over the spelling of the word that won the national spelling bee championship.  Is this anti-semitic orthography?

Did Kipling plagiarize some of The Jungle Book?  According to NPR, kinda sorta perhaps.

Episode 51 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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