Episode 443: TDO vs. The Curator of Schlock #3

24 Saturday Oct 2020

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Episode, Horror, The Curator of Schlock

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Color Out of Space, HP Lovecraft, Nicolas Cage, Richard Stanley

Episode 443 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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On this week’s show, Jeff Shuster and I discuss Richard Stanley’s recent film of H.P. Lovecraft’s The Color Out of Space.

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Check out Jeff’s column, The Curator of Schlock.

Episode 442: TDO vs. The Curator of Schlock #2

17 Saturday Oct 2020

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Episode, Horror, The Curator of Schlock

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Episode 442 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 Leslie Salas.

On this week’s show, Jeff Shuster and I discuss the genius of Richard Brake, the superior sound design of Rob Zombie’s films, the paradoxes of carnie victimhood, the nightmare underbelly of The Great Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution, mere survival as an inadequate story-goal, likable characters, all while talking about Rob Zombie’s overlooked brutal 2016 masterpiece, 31.

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Check out Jeff’s column, The Curator of Schlock.

Episode 441: TDO vs. The Curator of Schlock #1

10 Saturday Oct 2020

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Episode, Horror, The Curator of Schlock

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Episode 441 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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On this week’s show, I talk with Jeff Shuster about Cosmos Panatos’s 2018 classic horror film, Mandy, as part 1 of our series of discussions on horror films of the last decade.

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Check out Jeff’s column, The Curator of Schlock.

Episode 440: Dmetri Kakmi!

03 Saturday Oct 2020

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Autobiography, Craft of Fiction Writing, Episode, Horror

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Episode 440 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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On this week’s show, I talk to Dmetri Kakmi about existentialism in horror, the performance of identity, the structure of memoir, and many other things.

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Check out The Diaries of a Sozzled Scribbler, as transcribed by Dmetri.

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

Episode 439: Chuck Palahniuk!

26 Saturday Sep 2020

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Craft of Fiction Writing, Episode, Postmodernism

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Adjustment Day, Chuck Palahniuk, Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life after Which Everything Was Different, Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Stranger Than Fiction, The Invention of Sound

Episode 439 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 week’s show, I talk to novelist Chuck Palahniuk about The Invention of Sound, Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life after Which Everything Was Different, Adjustment Day, the 18-month rule, how to stay productive, how to keep invested in the work, the genius of Ira Levin, the value of mentors, and how to remix Invisible Monsters.

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Check out Episode 332, when Vanessa Blakeslee and I discussed Chuck’s Stranger Than Fiction.

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

Episode 438: A Discussion of Children of Men, with Michael Wheaton!

20 Sunday Sep 2020

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Episode 438 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 Michael Wheaton about Alfonso Cuaron’s 2006 film, Children of Men, while I wait in vain for my ears to stop ringing.

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

Episode 437: Steve Davenport

12 Saturday Sep 2020

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Episode, Poetry

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Bruise Songs, Steve Davenport

Episode 437 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).

Steve Davenport

On this episode, I talk to poet Steve Davenport about poetry, collaboration, the body, and many other things.

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Episode 436: Alex Miller!

07 Monday Sep 2020

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Episode 436 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, personal essayist Alex Miller and I talk about the intimate power of the personal essay, pitches, politics, and universities in NYC.

Essays by Alex Miller

Read “When I Can’t Progress in my Love Life, I Level Up in Video Games” over at The Washington Post.
Read “Facing my Fear: I Was Always Scared of the Dark. Then PTSD Made it Even Worse” over at The Guardian.
Read “Kanye Made Me Love Being Black. That’s Why I Can’t Vote for Him” over at The Independent.
Read “Growing Up in the Shadow of Emmitt Till” over at The New York Daily News.

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

Episode 435: Ariel Francisco!

29 Saturday Aug 2020

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Episode, Florida Literature, Poetry

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Episode 435 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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On this episode, poet Ariel Francisco and I talk about Florida’s wildness, Miami, Hollywood (Florida), multilingualism, Anna Nicole Smith, a sinking state, Jack Kerouac, FIU’s MFA program, and many other important matters.

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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

435 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 434: Nick Flynn

22 Saturday Aug 2020

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Episode 434 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, Nick Flynn and I talk about memoirs, boundaries, and getting the writing done.

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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.