Episode 507: Sonya Huber!

22 Saturday Jan 2022

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Episode 507 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 today’s show, memoirist Sonya Huber discusses how to write the way that we think, including the semiotic leapfrogs of memory, and trying to depict the precarious balance of reality.

Photo by Francesca Andre.

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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.

The Kerouac Project of Orlando is open for applications for its residency program.

Episode 506: Shruti Swarmy!

15 Saturday Jan 2022

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Miami Book Fair, Shruti Swarmy, The Archer, The House is a Body

Episode 506 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 today’s show, Shruti Swarmy talks about calling the reader into a complete, already alive imaginary world, and writing about dance in ways that transcend rational, orderly prose.

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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.

Today’s presentation was done in cooperation with Miami Book Fair.

The Kerouac Project of Orlando is open for applications for its residency program.

Episode 505: Brian Broome!

08 Saturday Jan 2022

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Episode 505 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 today’s show, I speak with the memoirist Brian Broome, winner of the 2021 Kirkus Prize for nonfiction.

Photo by Annie O’Neill

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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.

Today’s presentation was done in cooperation with Miami Book Fair.

Here is the official statement from the Association of Writing Programs about Purdue’s beleaguered English Department.

The Kerouac Project of Orlando is open for applications for its residency program.

Episode #504: Zaina Arafat!

01 Saturday Jan 2022

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Episode 504 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 today’s show, I speak with fiction writer Zaina Arafat about love, identity, sarcasm, and their complications for storytelling.

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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.

Today’s presentation was done in cooperation with Miami Book Fair.

Here is the official statement from the Association of Writing Programs about Purdue’s beleaguered English Department.

The Kerouac Project of Orlando opens for applications in January.

Episode 503: 3 Poets on Geography, Intimacy, and Dislocation

25 Saturday Dec 2021

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Episode 503 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 today’s show, you’ll hear the “Geography, Intimacy, and Dislocation” poetry panel I moderated this year for Miami Book Fair: The three poets reading and discussing their work are Raymond Antrobus,

Raymond Antrobus by Suki Dhanda.

Carlie Hoffman,

& Tiana Nobile.

Tiana Nobile by Zoe Cuneo.

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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.

Today’s presentation was done in cooperation with Miami Book Fair.

Here is the official statement from the Association of Writing Programs about Purdue’s beleaguered English Department.

The Kerouac Project of Orlando opens for applications in January.

Episode 502: David Morgan O’Connor!

18 Saturday Dec 2021

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Episode 502 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).

Ehsan Emad & David Morgan O’Connor on the porch of the Kerouac Project of Orlando.

On today’s show, I talk to the poet David Morgan O’Connor, who was the 2021 fall resident at the Kerouac Project of Orlando.

NOTES

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.

Here is the official statement from the Association of Writing Programs about Purdue’s beleaguered English Department.

The Kerouac Project of Orlando opens for applications in January.

Episode 501: Sandra M. Gilbert & Susan Gubar!

11 Saturday Dec 2021

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Episode 501 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 today’s show, legendary scholars Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar discuss the history of feminism and women’s studies, and the turns of current events that make activism more necessary than ever.

Sandra M. Gilbert

Susan Gubar

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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.

Go here to sign a petition to save Purdue’s creative writing program.

Today’s interview was done in cooperation with Miami Book Fair.

Episode 500: Paul Auster!

05 Sunday Dec 2021

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Burning Boy, Miami Book Fair, Paul Auster, Smoke, Stephen Crane

Episode 500 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 today’s show, I discuss the power of Stephen Crane with novelist Paul Auster.

Photo by by Spencer Ostrander.

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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.

Today’s interview was done in cooperation with Miami Book Fair.

Behold my literary tourism in Brooklyn, during my MFA days.

Former site of The Brooklyn Cigar Shop set, taken May 3rd, 2008. (I apparently don’t know how to frame a shot.)

Episode 499: Saïd Sayrafiezadeh!

27 Saturday Nov 2021

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Episode 499 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 today’s show, I discuss Beckett, Kafka, wry sardonic worldweariness, and other matters of interest with fiction writer and memoirist Saïd Sayrafiezadeh.

Photo by Beowulf Sheehan.

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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.

Miami Book Fair has recordings of online events that can be viewed now.

Episode 498: Craig Pittman!

13 Saturday Nov 2021

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Episode 498 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 today’s show, I discuss Florida journalism, the tragic side of Florida Man, iguana hunters, bespoke mermaid tales, and other topics of great interest with Craig Pittman.

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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.

Miami Book Fair has begun!