Episode 467: Ciara Shuttleworth!

10 Saturday Apr 2021

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Episode 467 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

In this week’s show, I speak with Ciara Shuttleworth about poetry, telling factions, limerence, running with the Muses, being open to delight, and the importance of daydreaming.

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Consider donating to my birthday fundraiser for The Kerouac Project of Orlando.

Orlando locals, go see Orlando Shakes’s Lake Eola production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, now through April 17th.

Photo by Tony Firriolo.

Check out my literary adventure novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

Episode 466: Maxim Loskutoff!

03 Saturday Apr 2021

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Episode 466 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

In this week’s show, I speak with Maxim Loskutoff about Montana and the messy importance of setting, the fecund symbolism of reality, and attending NYU’s creative writing program.

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Learn more about O, Miami here.
Check out my literary adventure novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

Episode 465: Samantha Hart!

27 Saturday Mar 2021

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Episode 465 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

In this week’s show, I speak with Samantha Hart about her wonderful debut memoir, Blind Pony,
Plus I speak with Scott Cunningham about the monthlong poetry festival, O, Miami.

Photo by Alexander Ruiz.

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Learn more about O, Miami here.
Check out my literary adventure novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

Episode 464: A Discussion of Allie Brosh’s Solutions and Other Problems (with Leslie Salas)!

20 Saturday Mar 2021

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Episode 464 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

In this week’s show, Leslie Salas and I discuss Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Half and Solutions and Other Problems.

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Check out my literary adventure novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

Episode 464 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

Episode 463: Raphael Cormack!

13 Saturday Mar 2021

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Episode 463 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

In this week’s episode, theater scholar Raphael Cormack and I discuss the allure of Arabian music, the revolutionary times in Egypt between the world wars, and the women who dominated Cairo’s entertainment scene in the 1920s and 30s.

Photo by Nina Subin.

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Check out this site for The Foundation for Arab Music Archiving and Research.

Foundation for Arab Music Archiving and Research

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Episode 462: Denise Duhamel!

06 Saturday Mar 2021

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Episode 462 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

In this week’s episode, I speak with the poet Denise Duhamel about her latest book, Second Story, how to approach the long poem, the empathy gap in American life, and the Jungian concept of the necessity of play.

Photo by Amira Hadla.

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Episode 461: Isaac Fitzgerald/Brigette Barrager/Leigh Hobbs!

27 Saturday Feb 2021

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Episode 461 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

In this week’s episode, I speak with Isaac Fitzgerald and Brigette Barrager and Leigh Hobbs about children’s books.

Photo by Janine Ker.

Photo by Simon Schluter (2 May 2017).

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I uploaded a new video to my other youtube channel, The Strangest Mouse, of the model trains at EPCOT, with very quaint music.

Episode 460: Gwen Mullins!

20 Saturday Feb 2021

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Episode 460 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

In this week’s episode, fiction writer Gwen Mullins and I discuss many, many things from the front of the Kerouac Project of Orlando’s porch.

Photo by Geoff Benge.

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Poet Danez Smith will perform an online masterclass on Friday February 26 at 6pm, and an virtual reading on Saturday, February 27 at 4pm p.m. At the event, hosted by Valencia College and the University of Central Florida, Smith will read from their newest book, “Homie,” recently named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award. Registration for both events is available at https://tinyurl.com/smithdanez

Learn more about the residency program of The Kerouac Project of Orlando here.

Episode 459: Nicklaus Rupert!

14 Sunday Feb 2021

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Episode 459 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

In this week’s episode, Nicklaus Rupert and I discuss the PhD in Creative Writing, the creative and professional benefits of working for a literary magazine, how working in a cinema house can turn one into a storytelling curmudgeon, and the responsibilities of using the trope of Floridian tackiness.

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Learn more about the residency program of The Kerouac Project of Orlando here.

Episode 458: A Discussion of Lynda Barry’s Syllabus (with Leslie Salas)!

06 Saturday Feb 2021

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Episode 458 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

In this week’s show, Leslie Salas and I discuss Lynda Barry’s composition book-inspired musings on art, Syllabus, and how not just craft, but creativity itself is a skill.

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