16 Saturday Feb 2019
Posted in Creative Nonfiction, Disney, Episode
Episode 354 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 Todd James Pierce about his new biography of Ward Kimball from an epic corridor of The Wilderness Lodge at Walt Disney World.
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Check out Todd’s site and podcast, The Disney History Institute.
Check out my previous interview with Todd back on Episode 218.
Episode 354 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
09 Saturday Feb 2019
Posted in Episode, Philosophy
Episode 353 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, Vanessa Blakeslee and I survive reading Roland Barthes’s “The Death of the Author” and “What is an Author?” by Michel Foucault.
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Check Out Vanessa’s Books!
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Suggested donation: $20, which comes with a glass of wine and food. Go here for more details.
Episode 353 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
02 Saturday Feb 2019
Episode 352 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 my friend Terry Ann Thaxton about poetry, parents, mortality, yard work, mud, and the underrated useful of writing prompts for professional writers. We were tired, but we laughed a lot.
John King and Terry Ann Thaxton at Jack Kerouac’s house in Orlando. Jared Silvia is saying something behind us. Photo by Katherine J. Parker.
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Episode 352 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
26 Saturday Jan 2019
Posted in Craft of Fiction Writing, Episode, Journalism, War
Episode 351of 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 speak with the war veteran, journalist, and novelist Elliot Ackerman about composition and revision strategies, and the emotional access points from our own experience to the stories we tell.
Photo by Huger Foote.
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Episode 351of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
19 Saturday Jan 2019
Posted in Craft of Fiction Writing, Episode, Kerouac House
Episode 350 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 speak with the Kerouac House’s fall 2018 resident, Eleanor Matthews about Victorian novels, characterization and plots, and the connections between physical activity and creative writing.
Photo by Katherine Parker.
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Episode 350 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
12 Saturday Jan 2019
Posted in Craft of Fiction Writing, Episode, Philosophy
Episode 349 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 croak with Vanessa Blakeslee and Mark Pisczek about the Apollonian and Dionysian origins of storytelling as explored in Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy.
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If you live in Orlando, come hear Mark and his band, Strange Angels, play jazz at the Imperial at Washburn Imports this Thursday, January 17, 2019, 8-11 PM.
1800 N Orange BLVD / Orlando, FL 32804.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2187842224789407/
Episode 349 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
05 Saturday Jan 2019
Posted in Episode, Craft of Fiction Writing, Creative Nonfiction
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Beautiful Country Burn Again, Ben Fountain, Celeste Ng, Gary Shteyngart, Lake Success, Little Fires Everywhere
Episode 348 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
This week has Miami Book Fair International conversations with Ben Fountain, Celeste Ng, and Gary Shteyngart!
Ben Fountain and beverages in the Confucius Institute at Miami-Dade College.
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Episode 348 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
29 Saturday Dec 2018
Episode 347 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
This week is a cornucopia of poetry conversation with Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Juan Felipe Herrera, and Billy Collins!
Juan Felipe Herrera
Billy Collins
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Episode 347 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
22 Saturday Dec 2018
Posted in Christmas, Episode, Hunter S. Thompson
Episode 346 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
While I try to get rid of this cold and catch up on some sleep, here’s a vintage recording I acquired through bootleg trading I did in the 1990s. I hope you like it.
(It’s a secret gift that may or may not involve Hunter S. Thompson in some way.)
