Episode 344: Loose Lips December 2018!

08 Saturday Dec 2018

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Episode 344 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 share a recording of Loose Lips, the monthly current events literary thing run by Burrow Press, who selected Katherine J. Parker to curate and host this installment.

Katherine J. Parker by Jared Silvia.

Joshua Begley by by Jared Silvia.

Whitney Paige Hamrick by Jared Silvia.

John King by Jared Silvia.

Karen Price by Jared Silvia.

Tom Lucas by Jared Silvia.

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Check out John’s previous appearances on Loose Lips:

Episode 344 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 343: A Very Italian Christmas!

01 Saturday Dec 2018

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Episode 343 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 the new story anthology, A Very Italian Christmas, from New Vessel Press.

John Vanessa Italian Christmas

In our discussion, we manage to talk about yuletide loneliness, poverty, despair, prostitution, elk herds, Christmas, fascism, prostitution, friendship, Paul Auster’s screenplay for Smoke, and David Sedaris’s classic essay, “Dinah the Christmas Whore.”

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Check out Vanessa and I talking about A Very French Christmas from last year.

Check out my interview with Davis Sedaris back on episode 50.

Episode 343 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode #342: Linda Buckmaster!

24 Saturday Nov 2018

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Episode 342 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 poet and memoirist Linda Buckmaster about how our subjects sometimes choose us, the wondrous weirdness of Florida, and how the find form in the flux of composition.

Linda Buckmaster

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Episode 342 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode #341: The Interplanetary Acoustic Team!

17 Saturday Nov 2018

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Episode 341 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 Brian Turner & Jared Silvia about making a beautiful, experimental poetic album of space ballads and duets.

Episode 341 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 340: LaTanya McQueen!

10 Saturday Nov 2018

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Episode 340 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 creative nonfiction writer LaTanya McQueen about how our stories sometimes choose us, how to write a really good footnote, and how to try to talk about history and race in America.

LaTanya McQueen

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And it Begins Like This

Episode 340 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 339: Kimberly Lojewski!

03 Saturday Nov 2018

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Kimberly Lojewski, Worm Fiddling Nocturne in the Key of a Broken Heart

Episode 339 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 Kimberly Lojewski!

Kimberly Lojewski Author photo

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Check out my interviews with Tony Hoagland back on episode 40 and 132.

Episode 339 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 338: Horror Movie Poetry Night V!

27 Saturday Oct 2018

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Event Horizon, Fright Night, George Romero's Martin, Nightbreed, Nosferatu, Penny Dreadful, The Prince of Darkness, The Skeleton Key, The Tommyknockers, The Walking Dead

Episode 338 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 Joshua Begley, AC Warner, Katherine Parker, Elise McKenna, Tom Lucas, Amy Watkins, Joshua Dull, Dianne Turgeon Richardson, and ~~Vincent Crampton~~ Count Orlock for Horror Movie Poetry Night V!

Horror films and shows such as Fright Night, Penny Dreadful, George Romero’s Martin, The Walking Dead, The Prince of Darkness, Event Horizon, The Skeleton Key, The Tommyknockers, Nightbreed, Nosferatu, and Twilight were addressed.

Dianne meets the count. Photo by John King.

Her favorite color is red. Photo by Katherine Parker.

Joshua Dull before a laughing fit. Photo by Katherine Parker.

Episode 338 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

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

20 Saturday Oct 2018

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Danse Macabre, stephen king

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.

Sean M Conrey

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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.