Drinking
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In Boozo Veritas #7: The Green Fairy
In Boozo Veritas #7 by Teege Braune The Green Fairy Ah! the Green Goddess! What is the fascination that makes her so adorable and so terrible?”—Aleister Crowley Absinthe, that exotic emerald green liquid with its secret ingredient Wormwood, a powerful and dangerous psychotropic. Absinthe, scourge of the nineteenth century salon, through whence bohemians became maniacs and… Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #4: Bacchanalia, Family Style
In Boozo Veritas #4 by Teege Braune Bacchanalia, Family Style for my own semi-feral maenad Jenn Benner “Those who look for filth can find it at the height of noon.” -Euripides, The Bacchae Our contemporary, popular notion of Dionysus as symbol of drunkenness and revelry is a sadly castrated version of the ancient Greek deity. While… Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #3: Through the Looking Glass Darkly
In Boozo Veritas #3 by Teege Braune Through the Looking Glass Darkly No single narcotic or hallucinogenic drug mirrors a state of dream sleep better than a thoroughly annihilated blackout drunk. Marihuana with its transitions between anxiety and dopey boredom never creates the kind of mental adventures we experience while unconscious. LSD brings intense and often… Continue reading
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Episode 62: Mailbag Episode 2 (Electric Boogaloo)
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, Plus Jared Silvia reads his amazing new essay, “City of Ghosts.” TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES • Think about… Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #2: Don’t Bet on the Muse
In Boozo Veritas #2 by Teege Braune Don’t Bet on the Muse This is a literary anecdote that I hope is true despite everything else I’m going say in this post: I once heard that Charles Bukowski’s nightly routine, after he finished another grueling day at the post-office and had a quick bite at his favorite… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #1: Mastering the Dinner Party, Dialogue, and First Person Narrators
Buzzed Books #1 by Alise Hamilton Mastering the Dinner Party, Dialogue, and First Person Narrators Recommendation: Bobcat And Other Stories by Rebecca Lee Bobcat is a collection of seven short stories so rich and expansive they leave the reader walks away feeling she has read seven novels. Rebecca Lee manages to fit an amazing scope in… Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #1: The Rum Also Rises
In Boozo Veritas #1 by Teege Braune The Rum Also Rises I had intentions of becoming a writer long before it ever occurred to me to become a drunk. Long before alcohol held the appeal of the forbidden, sips of my parents’ beer, wine, and champagne merely tasted bitter or sickeningly cloying. Written words, were… Continue reading
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Episode 52: Nathan Holic!
Episode 52 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 once again to Nathan Holic, who first appeared on this show all the way back on episode 1, Plus Drew Perlmutter discusses the Cannes Film Festival, Plus Nicholas… Continue reading
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Episode 49: Monica Wendel (Redux)!
Episode 49 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 my friend, the poet Monica Wendel, who is in residency at The Kerouac House, plus Chelsey Clammer writes about Marya Hornbacher’s Madness. Texts Discussed Notes Two great… Continue reading
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Episode 41: Emily Brandt!
Episode 41 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 and teacher Emily Brandt, Plus Denise Falcone talks about Nabokov’s Ada. Texts Discussed The Inside Colocation blog. Florida’s Blue Ribbon Panel on Higher Education Reform… Continue reading
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