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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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Episode 696: The Kerouac Project of Orlando Book Club Discussion of William S. Burroughs’s Interzone (with Matt Peters)!

Episode 696 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this show, John and Matt Peters continue The Kerouac Project Book Club with a discussion of William S. Burrough’s third fiction manuscript, Interzone, the cliff before one arrives at Naked Lunch. TEXTS DISCUSSED Continue reading
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Episode 695: Loose Lips December 2025!

Episode 695 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). The Drunken Odyssey commandeered the Loose Lips oratory series during the tidings of yule and whatnot on December 2, 2025. The readers included Fred Lambert, Continue reading
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694: Anne Waldman!

Episode 694 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). In this week’s show, John interviews Anne Waldman about her extraordinary new work, Mesopotopia. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES On Friday, December 12th at 7 PM, Mamie Continue reading
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Episode 693: Emily Van Duyne!

Episode 693 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). On this week’s show, John and Rachael Tillman interview the scholar and poet Emily Van Duyne about Sylvia Plath’s legacy as discussed in her remarkable Continue reading
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Episode 692: Fire x Fire x Fire 2025 with Tod Caviness and Dianne Turgeon Richardson!

Episode 692 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). On this week’s show: John concocted a daft poetry game for friends with a body of work substantial enough to withstand randomization of theme and Continue reading
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Episode 691: A.J. Rodriguez

Episode 691 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 fiction writer A.J. Rodriguez, the June-July 2025 Kerouac Project of Orlando resident. NOTES Check out AJ’s story “Papel Picado” over at “The Common.” Learn more about The Continue reading
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Episode 690: Ivonne Lamazares!

Episode 690 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 Ivonne Lamazares about her new novel, The Tilting House. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Check out the upcoming offerings from Miami Book Fair. If you’d like to support this Continue reading
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Episode 689: Schloctoberfest 2025 # 4 (A Discussion of Night of the Living Dead with Jeff Shuster)

On this week’s show, Jeff Shuster and I discuss the 1968 horror masterpiece Night of the Living Dead because how could we not? NOTES Check out the visionary lovely disorienting music of Descartes a Kant! If you’d like to support this show with a monthly subscription that will feature bonus content, please see TDO’s Patreon page. Continue reading
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