Episode 337: A Roundtable Discussion of Stephen King’s Danse Macabre!

20 Saturday Oct 2018

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Episode 337 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 episode, I am joined by Dale Lucas, Tom Lucas, and Elise McKenna for a deep dive into Stephen King’s 1981 treatise on the horror genre, Danse Macabre.

Photo by Katherine J. Parker.

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Photo by Katherine J. Parker.

NOTES

Check out Don Peteroy’s amazing essay on how to read the entire Dark Tower series while still having a life.

Episode 337 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 336: Sean M. Conrey!

13 Saturday Oct 2018

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Episode 336 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 episode, I talk to the poet Sean M. Conrey about poetry, religion, trees, and our long ago time at Purdue University.

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The Book of Trees

Episode 336 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 355: Jane Ridgeway!

06 Saturday Oct 2018

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Episode 335 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 episode, I talk to fiction writer Jane Ridgeway about our stories and characters choosing us instead of the other way around, the delicious problem of historical fiction, and what teenagers today like to read, among other topics.

Jane Ridgeway by Steve Erwin.

Episode 335 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 334: Ben Gwin & Jared Silvia!

29 Saturday Sep 2018

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Episode 334 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 episode, I talk to novelist Ben Gwin about postmodern satire, addiction, whether MFAs ruin or sustain writers, and for some reason I insist that he needs to write poetry,

Ben Gwin 2_photo credit Jared Alan Smith

Photo by Jared Alan Smith.

plus I talk to Jared Silvia about synth music, Woody Guthrie, the vagaries of how folk music gets recorded, and Jared’s annual recording project every Labor Day.

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Episode 334 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 333: Peter Kuper!

22 Saturday Sep 2018

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Comic Books, Episode, Graphic Novels

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Episode 333 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 episode, I talk to Peter Kuper about Kafka, the remarkable art form of comic books, the indie comic book scene in the late 1980s, Spy Vs. Spy, finding your Muse when it leaves the marketplace, and so much more.

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NOTES

Check out Brian Turner, Jared Silvia, recordings of Elise Kusnetz, and others in a performance of The Interplanetary Acoustic Team at the Timucua White House in Orlando, Florida on Tuesday, September 25th.

Check out Kyle Eagle’s impeccable new jazz podcast, The Major Scale. If you search the iTunes store, you can find it there as a free download you can and should subscribe to.

Leslie Salas reviewed Peter Kuper’s adaptation of The Metamorphosis for the Drunken Odyssey back in 2013.

Details from Kafkaesque:

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Episode 333 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode #332: A Craft Discussion of Stranger Than Fiction, with Vanessa Blakeslee!

15 Saturday Sep 2018

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Episode 332 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 episode, I talk with Vanessa Blakeslee about Chuck Palahniuk’s Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories.

Episode 332 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 331: A Celebration of Jack Kerouac’s The Dharma Bums!

08 Saturday Sep 2018

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Episode 331 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 episode, I host a party in honor of the 60th anniversary of the publication go my favorite Jack Kerouac work, The Dharma Bums.

John King, Ellie Mathews, and Steve Erwin. Photo by Marilyn Erwin.

Josh Dull by Steve Erwin.

Bob Kealing and Geoff Benge by Steve Erwin.

Jared Silvia by by Steve Erwin.

Karen Priceby Steve Erwin.

Ciera McElroy by Steve Erwin.

Drew Barth by Steve Erwin.

Erik Deckers by Steve Erwin.

NOTES

If you live in Orlando, the city beautiful, considering a local trip to the top of Manhattan: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights.

Alina Alcántara as Abuela Claudia in Orlando Shakespeare Theatre’s production of In the Heights. Photo by Tony Firriolo

Episode 331 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 330: Kurt Vonnegut Roundtable!

01 Saturday Sep 2018

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A Man Without a Country, Breakfast of Champions, Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five, The Sirens of Titan

Episode 330 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 episode, I am joined by Chris Lafave, Erik Deckers, and David James Poissant for a discussion of Kurt Vonnegut.

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When in Indianapolis, visit the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library.

Vonnegut Library

If you are in Orlando, that is, the City Beautiful, this Wednesday, come celebrate the 60th anniversary of The Dharma Bums at the house where Jack wrote it.

Dharma Bums Celebration

Here is our On the Road show from last year.

Episode 330 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 329: Blair Hurley!

25 Saturday Aug 2018

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Episode 329 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 episode, I chat with novelist Blair Hurley about our experiences in NYU’s MFA program, how to plot novels, religion, and how to really dress like a writer.

Blair Hurley

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Check out Brian Turner’s album, featuring recordings by his late wife, Ilyse Kusnetz.

Episode 329 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 328: Dale Lucas!

18 Saturday Aug 2018

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Beating Windward Books, Dale Lucas, Doc Voodoo, Fifth Ward Friendly Fire, Fifth Ward: First Watch, Orbit Books

Episode 328 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 episode, I interview Dale Lucas, the author of the Fifth Ward and Doc Voodoo series of novels about exploring ethics in long-form narrative, world-building (and when to stop), how to keep writing the novel in maddening isolation, and other stuff, too.

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Check out Dale’s essay about having Simon Vance perform the audiobook of his novel, The Fifth Ward: First Watch.

Episode 328 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.