Episode 432: Kyle Eagle!

09 Sunday Aug 2020

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Episode, Music

Episode 432 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).

This week, I talk to podcaster Kyle Eagle about music and everything.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Wynton Marsalis The Midnight Blues

Dizzy Gillespie Groovin High Cachao

NOTES

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Check out Kyle’s jazz podcast, The Major Scale.

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Episode 431: TDO After Hours #1, with Vanessa Blakeslee

01 Saturday Aug 2020

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Episode 431 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).

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In this week’s show, Vanessa Blakeslee and I discuss two online pieces on the subject of sex writing, and the conversation roves from there.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Lorin Stein’s “Why Write About Sex?” in The Paris Review.

J.T. Ellison’s “Don’t Be Shy: How to Write Effective Sex Scenes.”

Vanessa Blakeslee’s “The Fetish” in The Paris Review.

“Another Saturday Night with Mr. Fun” can be found in this anthology.

Condoms & Hot Tubs

NOTES

This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at Scribophile.

TDO Listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to register for a basic account, go here while still logged in to upgrade the account with the discount.

Visit Vanessa’s website to learn more about her work.

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

Episode 430: Jared Silvia!

25 Saturday Jul 2020

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Episode 430 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).

Jared Silvia and Gear

In this week’s show, I talk to writer, musician, and producer Jared Silvia about the connections between music and writing, the history of synth-pop, and the role of randomness and patterns to experience.

NOTES

This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at Scribophile.

TDO Listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to register for a basic account, go here while still logged in to upgrade the account with the discount.

Check out Jared’s label Circuit Church over at Band Camp.

Jared’s King-of-the-Hill-inspired fiction appeared on episode 167.

Michael Iceberg brought some strange hardware to play at Disneyland and Walt Disney World in the late 70s and early 80s.

Episode 429: Lindsay Ellis!

18 Saturday Jul 2020

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Craft of Fiction Writing, Episode, Film, Science Fiction

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Episode 429 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).

Photo by Emily VanDerWerf.

In this week’s show, I talk to novelist and video essayist Lindsay Ellis about science fiction; the structure of novels; exploring character interiority; alien invasion narratives; Chomskyian linguistics; the joys of making academic arguments about pop culture outside the academy; Transformers; and author platforms.

TEXT DISCUSSED

NOTES

This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at Scribophile.

TDO Listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to register for a basic account, go here while still logged in to upgrade the account with the discount.

Check out Lindsay Ellis’s youtube channel!

Or these vids.

The music for today’s show is by Modal Plane, used by permission. Check out more of his music over at Circuit Church.

Modal Plane

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Episode 428: David James Poissant!

11 Saturday Jul 2020

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Episode 428 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).

David James Poissant

In this week’s show, I talk to my friend David James Poissant about novel-writing, sex scenes, The X-Men, graphic art, focus, and many other things.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Lake Life The Heaven of Animals

This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at Scribophile.

TDO Listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to register for a basic account, go here while still logged in to upgrade the account with the discount.

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

Episode 427: Bruce Janz!

04 Saturday Jul 2020

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Episode 427 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).

Bruce Janz

In this week’s show, I talk to my friend, the philosopher Bruce Janz, about how to calm our monkey brains in the time of the pandemic, and what the pandemic can teach us about life before the pandemic.

NOTES

This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at Scribophile.

TDO Listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to register for a basic account, go here while still logged in to upgrade the account with the discount.

Learn more about Queerbomb over at its Facebook page.

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

Episode 426: Scott Hoffman!

27 Saturday Jun 2020

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Episode 426 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).

Scott Hoffman

In this week’s show, I talk to my friend, the historian Scott Hoffman, about the evolution of Purdue’s Outfest, Chicago Pride, Austin Pride, Queerbomb, Orlando pride, respectability politics, and other matters of interest.

NOTES

This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at Scribophile.

TDO Listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to register for a basic account, go here while still logged in to upgrade the account with the discount.

Learn more about Queerbomb over at its Facebook page.

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

Episode 425: Mixtape #13: Tender Ballads for Subhuman Lovers (2005)

20 Saturday Jun 2020

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Episode 425 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).

Tender Ballads for Subhuman Lovers

NOTES

This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at Scribophile.

TDO Listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to register for a basic account, go here while still logged in to upgrade the account with the discount.

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

Episode 424: Ronan Ryan!

13 Saturday Jun 2020

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Episode 424 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).

Photo by David Whitaker.

In this week’s show, I talk to novelist Ronan Ryan about the dramatic uses of gallows humor, how loss teaches us about our priorities, how elusive reality is, and how to match style to story.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

lolita-2

NOTES

This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at Scribophile.

TDO Listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to register for a basic account, go here while still logged in to upgrade the account with the discount.

Consider donating to City Lights Books to sustain it and/or buying a book online from Powells.

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

Episode 423: Protests!

06 Saturday Jun 2020

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Episode 423 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).

This week, my intern, Alexander Pate, and I discuss the Salisbury, NC protests that he has participated in, and discuss this point in history.

Heavy activity around a confederate statue with an angel.

NOTES

This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at Scribophile.

TDO Listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to register for a basic account, go here while still logged in to upgrade the account with the discount.

Consider donating to City Lights Books to sustain it and/or buying a book online from Powells.

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