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Episode 706: Richard Blanco
Episode 706 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 program, I catch up with the amazing Richard Blanco about his recent collected poems, Homeland of my Body, a book sandwiched with two sections of new work. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES To… Continue reading
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705: Mamie Pound!
Episode 705 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 program, I talk to Mamie Pound about how flash fiction works, poetry, and finding the authentic, messy, true emotion and understanding despite the editors in our brains. NOTES To learn more… Continue reading
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Episode 704: Elliot Ackerman!
Episode 704 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 program, I talk to Elliot Ackerman about his new novel, Sheepdogs, a hell of a military caper story. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Check out my earlier interviews with Elliot back on episodes… Continue reading
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Episode 703: A Discussion of Anaïs Nin’s Delta of Venus, with Dianne Turgeon Richardson
Episode 703 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. Happy Valentine’s Day, world! Listen to Dianne Turgeon Richardson and I discuss the memorable, occasionally exhausting, and morally iffy smut of Anaïs Nin’s Delta of Venus. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES To listen to John and… Continue reading
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Episode 702: A Discussion of Lucasta Miller’s The Brontë Myth, with Sophia Ferrara
Episode 702 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. After reading some of Charlotte Brontë’s Tales of Angria, John and Sophia go a-Brontë-ing again. They discuss Lucasta Miller’s extraordinary survey of the Brontë cult and the durable, troubled legacy of their fiction. TEXTS… Continue reading
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Episode 701: Greg Proops!
Episode 701 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 show, I speak with the comedian Greg Proops about comedy writing, comedy performance, his new album, Free State of California, improv, politics, film, and more. NOTES Links to the work and… Continue reading
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700: Chuck Klosterman!
Episode 700 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this episode, John speaks with the underrated novelist and essay writer Chuck Klosterman about his wickedly funny and ever-insightful new book called Football. They also speak about post-modernism and humor and how audiences… Continue reading
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Episode 699: Aymann Ismail!
Episode 699 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this episode, Samantha Nickerson interviews the journalist and memoirist about his new book, Becoming Baba: Fatherhood, Faith, and Finding Meaning in America. TEXT DISCUSSED Check out Aymann’s video series here. NOTES Learn more… Continue reading
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Episode 698: Descartes a Kant!
Episode 698 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this episode, John interviews the rock band Descartes a Kant about the creation of exciting twenty-first century theatrical rock and roll. If you’d rather watch this interview, here ya go! TEXTS DISCUSSED Listen… Continue reading
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Episode 697: Todd Jame Pierce!
Episode 697 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, John speaks with his friend Todd James Pierce about his research process, his work on Disney artist Mary Blair, and Todd’s wonderful new book, Making Mary Poppins: The Sherman Brothers,… Continue reading
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