Episode 482: A Discussion of Introducing Cultural Studies, with Leslie Salas!

24 Saturday Jul 2021

Episode 482 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 Ziauddan Sardar and Borin Van Loon’s Introducing Cultural Studies.

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Episode 482 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 481: Catherine Raven!

17 Saturday Jul 2021

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Episode 481 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).

On this episode, I talk to biologist Catherine Raven about her wonderful new memoir, Fox & I: An Uncommon Friendship.

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Episode 480: Tanya Grae!

10 Saturday Jul 2021

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Episode 480 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).

On this episode, I talk to the poet Tanya Grae about finding surprises in poetry, losing one’s hearing at the Hollywood Sportatorium, the solitude of earning a PhD in English, and the sexual politics of American life.

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Episode 479: A Discussion of The Departed, with Will Dowd!

03 Saturday Jul 2021

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Episode 479 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).

On this episode, I talk to writer Will Dowd about Martin Scorcese’s 2006 film, The Departed.

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Episode 478: Tyler Gillespie!

26 Saturday Jun 2021

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Episode 478 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, journalist & poetTyler Gillespie & I discuss long-form journalism and the epic wildness and weirdness of Florida.

Photo by Elizabeth Lynch.

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Read Brandon Wolfe’s essay about Pulse.

Read John King’s essay about Walt Disney World’s tragic alligator incident.

Learn about how Florida’s governor will protect freedom at Florida universities by policing thought and banning race from all educational discussion.

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Episode 477: A Summer Solstice Special with Jefff Shuster!

19 Saturday Jun 2021

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Episode 477 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, Jeff Shuster (our glorious Curator of Schlock) kick off summer by discussing two vintage summer camp films released in a two year span, Ivan Reitman’s Meatballs (1979) and Tony Maylam’s The Burning (1981).

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The Burning

The poster for Meatballs was really misleading.

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John King (right) with a starter’s mullet as the scoutcraft leader in the summer of 1989.

Fangoria spoiling the big monster reveal of “Funhouse” back in 1981.

Holly Hunter’s brief appearance in her film debut in “The Burning,” with Jason Alexander behind her.

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Episode 476: Anahid Nersessian!

12 Saturday Jun 2021

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Episode 476 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, literary scholar Anahid Nersessian & I discuss John Keats, the potential for personal observations in academic work, the sexual politics of art, theme parks, and academic institutions, the dialectic of the indeterminacy & the permanence of art, & the scope of Keats’s personae.

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Episode 475: Kathleen Rooney!

05 Saturday Jun 2021

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Episode 475 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 talk to the novelist Kathleen Rooney about finding the spark to begin stories, the shape for long-form narratives, and the whimsy to make discoveries along the way.

Photo by Beth Rooney.

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Episode 474: Nat Segaloff and Thomas Warming!

29 Saturday May 2021

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Episode 474 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 talk to Nat Segaloff and Thomas Warming about writing for and about Hollywood.

Nat Segaloff photographed by J.B. Lahmani.

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Episode 473: A Discussion of Tom Waits’s Swordfishtrombones with Stephen McClurg!

22 Saturday May 2021

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Episode 473 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 bring music blogger Stephen McClurg aboard as we talk about one of the most transformative, dramatic, atmospheric, strange, American pastoral phantasmagorical musical albums of all time, Tom Waits’s Swordfishtrombones (1983).