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  • Episode 571: Mark Scroggins!

    Episode 571: Mark Scroggins!

    On this episode, I speak with the scholar and poet Mark Scroggins about poetry that simultaneously compels and eludes the reader with its strange music, those depths of unknowing, the literary analogues to punk, reverse engineering a sense of cultural history, the problematic nature of the poetic voice, and whatnot. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES TDO listeners can… Continue reading

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  • Episode 570: Kathleen Rooney!

    Episode 570: Kathleen Rooney!

    On this episode, I talk to Kathleen Rooney about finding the fun despite the end of The Great Enlightenment, the joys of mixing wit and earnestness in verse, the fun of exploring the landscapes of AWP locations despite mentally frying beneath fluorescent lights, the tactile pleasures of typewriters, and other important matters. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES… Continue reading

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  • Episode 569: Lydia Millet, interview by David James Poissant!

    Episode 569: Lydia Millet, interview by David James Poissant!

    On this episode, David James Poissant interviews fiction writer Lydia Millet about geography, birds, earnestness, the characterization of children, the structure of novels, and other matters of interest. Episode 569 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… Continue reading

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  • Episode 568: A Conversation about Albert Camus’s “The Guest” with Chelsea Alice

    Episode 568: A Conversation about Albert Camus’s “The Guest” with Chelsea Alice

    Episode 568 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). Chelsea Alice gave me homework, to read “The Guest” by Albert Camus, the result of which is this existentialist episode, or something like that. TEXT… Continue reading

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  • Episode 567: Brook Ziporyn!

    Episode 567 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). This week, Brook Ziporyn and I discuss the complexities of interpreting the Daodejing, the humor of the book, and its applications to life philosophies, politics,… Continue reading

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  • Episode 566: Ciera Horton McElroy!

    Episode 566 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). This week, I speak with Ciera Horton McElroy about following through with long form fiction and her extraordinary debut, Atomic Family. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES TDO… Continue reading

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  • Episode 565: A Discussion of William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition with Rachael Tillman!

    Episode 565 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). This week, Rachael Tillman and I discuss William Gibson’s not especially science fictiony, but post-modern systems thriller, Pattern Recognition. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES TDO listeners can… Continue reading

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  • Episode 564: Patricia Smith!

    Episode 564 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). This week, I interview Patricia Smith about her latest collection of poems, Unshuttered. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES TDO listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription… Continue reading

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  • Episode 563: Stephanie McCarter, interviewed by Chelsea Alice!

    Episode 563 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). This week, Chelsea Alice talks to Stephanie McCarter about Ovid’s self-reflection, making Ovid’s humor visible to a contemporary audience, and feminism as it relates to… Continue reading

  • Episode 562: Mike Nagel!

    Episode 562 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). This week, I speak with fiction writer Mike Nagel about comic existentialism, alcoholic literature, and the class complexities of real estate. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES TDO… Continue reading

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