Episode 270: The Slam Summit!

22 Saturday Jul 2017

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Episode 270 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 Curtis X. Meyer and Caleb Zachary Matthews about the Slam Nationals that Team Orlando will be attending, the upsides and downsides of Slam Poetry, plus they perform their work!

Caleb Zachary Matthews, Raquel Henry, John King, and Curtis Meyer.

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Help send Sherdes Leona, Caleb Zachary Matthews, Faith Elizabeth, Curtis X. Meyer, & Kira Calvaresi to the Slam Nationals here.
On July 28th, I am hosting a reading by Jaimal Yogis at the Kerouac House.

All our Waves are Water

Episode 270 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 269: A Craft Discussion of Robert Paul Lamb’s Art Matters with Vanessa Blakeslee!

15 Saturday Jul 2017

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Art Matters Hemingway Craft and the Creation of the Modern Short Story, Conradian Split, Ernest Hemingway, Purdue University, Robert Paul Lamb

Episode 269 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Zoë liked this work of scholarship. I basically had to borrow the book from her.

In this week’s episode, I talk with Vanessa Blakeslee about Robert Paul Lamb’s Art Matters: Hemingway, Craft, and the Creation of the Modern Short Story. Five years in, TDO finally devotes a show to Hemingway, and Bob’s discussion of Hemingway’s craft is profoundly illuminating to how effectively extraordinary Hemingway’s aesthetics were. I somehow manage not to tell the story how in my Purdue years, my roommates and I dubbed the more rustic of our two bathrooms as The Ernest Hemingway Memorial toilet, with a lot of great photos of Hem in it.

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Special thanks to Mistie Watkins for her encouragement with this episode.

On July 28th, I am hosting a reading by Jaimal Yogis at the Kerouac House.

Episode 269 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode #268: Kathleen Rooney!

08 Saturday Jul 2017

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Kathleen Rooney, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

Episode 268 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Kathleen Rooney

On this week’s show, I talk to the poet and novelist Kathleen Rooney about the flaneur as geographic narrator of imaginative space, the aesthetic pleasures of walking, writing about New York City, the value of elderly characters, the dramatic provocations of history, and the structure of the novel of memory.

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On June 16th, I am hosting a fundraiser for the S.A.F.E. Words poetry slam at Writer’s Atelier.
On July 28th, I am hosting a reading by Jaimal Yogis at the Kerouac House.

Episode 268 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 267: A Discussion of Stanley Elkin’s The Magic Kingdom, with Orlando author Nathan Holic!

01 Saturday Jul 2017

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Episode 267 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Nathan Holic, right, in dire need of another beer at The Outer Rim lounge of The Contemporary Resort.

On this week’s show, I talk to my friend Nathan Holic, who is an Orlando writer and editor of the 15 Views of Orlando anthology series. While in situ at The Contemporary Resort, we discuss the stressors of theme park-going, the uses of such postmodern settings, and the odd counterbalances of melodrama and dark satire in Stanley Elkin’s The Magic Kingdom.

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Mary Cottle’s room? The equivalent of room 822 now, but perhaps not back in 1986. (No, we didn’t knock on the door.)

Check out Nathan’s books!

On June 16th, I am hosting a fundraiser for the S.A.F.E. Words poetry slam at Writer’s Atelier.
On July 28th, I am hosting a reading by Jaimal Yogis at the Kerouac House.

All our Waves are Water

Episode 267 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 266: Shasta Grant!

24 Saturday Jun 2017

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Episode 266 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

On this week’s show, I talk to fiction writer Shasta Grant, the Kerouac House resident from the spring of 2017, about novel writing, planning and plotting, and finding the life in the words.

Shasta Grant

NOTES

Shasta’s chapbook is now available from Split Lip Press.

On June 16th, I am hosting a fundraiser for the S.A.F.E. Words poetry slam at Writer’s Atelier.

On July 28th, I am hosting a reading by Jaimal Yogis at the Kerouac House.

Episode 266 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 265: Todd Boss!

17 Saturday Jun 2017

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Episode 265 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

On this week’s show, I talk to Todd Boss, whose new book, Tough Luck, includes a poem sequence inspired by the disaster of the I-35W Bridge’s collapse in Minneapolis,

Todd Boss

plus Malcolm Kelly reads his poem, “Visual Vignettes of Some Gay Shit.”

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Check out The Drunken Odyssey’s classic Bloomsday show, episode 104.
Read Nicole Oquendo’s poem, “Binding We,” over at The Florida Review.
For anyone so compelled, you can find my essay on Mystery Science Theater 3000 here, though I am pretty sure it is there without permission.

Episode 265 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 264: A Craft Discussion of Jhumpa Lahiri’s In Other Words with Vanessa Blakeslee!

10 Saturday Jun 2017

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Episode 264 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 Jhumpa Lahiri’s experiment in becoming an Italian writer, In Other Words.

Vanessa and John 2

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Episode 262: David James Poissant’s Keynote from Litlando 2017!

27 Saturday May 2017

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Episode 262 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

On this week’s show, David James Poissant reads his keynote at Litlando, from February 25th, 2017.

David James Poissant Keynote

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Episode 262 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 261: Sarah Gerard!

20 Saturday May 2017

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Episode 261 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

On Episode 261, I interview the prose writer Sarah Gerard!

Photo by Levi Walton.

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The Promethean Conduit was a hell of a good show!

In Animal: a Beast of a Literary Magazine, here is my essay about the alligator incident at Walt Disney World.

Episode 261 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 260: Jaroslav Kalfař!

13 Saturday May 2017

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Darin Strauss, Jaroslav Kalfař, Jonathan Saffron Foer, New York University, Spaceman of Bohemia, University of Central Florida, Vladimir Nabokov

Episode 260 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

260 shows equals a fifth anniversary, I’ve decided, so it was a pleasure to talk to someone who was here at the very beginning. Jaroslav Kalfař was my occasional co-host to talk about craft books, during those last days of his being an undergraduate at the University of Central Florida. Five years, one MFA, and one novel later, Jaroslav is an international literary phenomenon. We try to catch up and manage to talk about writing along the way,

Jaroslav Kalfar

plus Heleen Sikorski reads her poem “Autoerotic Alliteration.”

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Spaceman of Bohemia

Episode 260 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.