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Episode 687: Schloctoberfest 2025 #2 (The Sword of Doom)
On this week’s show, Jeff Shuster and I delve into an existentially strange antihero story that feels a bit crazy and not entirely complete. NOTES If you’d like to support this show with a monthly subscription that will feature bonus content, please see TDO’s Patreon page. For excellent tattoos in the Orlando area, check out The Tattooed Continue reading
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Episode 686: Schloctoberfest 2025 #1 (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!)
On this week’s show, Jeff Shuster and I delve into a delicate inquiry into the battle of the sexes, from one of America’s most sensitive filmmakers. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES If you’d like to support this show with a monthly subscription that will feature bonus content, please see TDO’s Patreon page. For excellent tattoos in the Orlando Continue reading
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Episode 685: A Discussion of Sylvia Plath’s The Colossus and Other Poems (with Rachael Tillman)
On this week’s show, Rachael and John read the poems of Sylvia Plath’s first book, step 1 in trying to appreciate Sylvia Plath’s career as a poet and novelist as Plath herself experienced the creation and presentation of that work, not in the light of her mythology and hagiography. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Check out Greg Continue reading
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Episode 684: A Pop Poetry Conversation about Megan Fox’s Pretty Boys are Poisonous!
Episode 684 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, John yanks a conversation out from behind the paywall to let you know what mischief you might be missing. NOTES If you are in Orlando, Florida on Tuesday, August 26th, Continue reading
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Episode 683: Eugenio Negro!
Episode 683 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. This week, John speaks with the fiction writer, cartoonist, and musician Eugenio Negro about his new novel, Despair Priorities, the long term project, and figuring out what will be deeply satisfying as a writer Continue reading
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Episode 682: A Discussion of Charlotte Brontë’s Tales of Angria, with Sophia Ferrara!
Episode 682 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. Sophia Ferrara joins John down the rabbit hole of Charlotte Brontë’s early private storytelling. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES If you’d like to support this show with a monthly subscription that will feature bonus content, please Continue reading
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Episode 681: The Kerouac Project of Orlando Book Club Discussion of William S. Burroughs’s Queer (with Matt Peters)!
Episode 681 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this show, John and Matt Peters continue The Kerouac Project Book Club with a discussion of William S. Burrough’s second novel, Queer. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Learn more about The Kerouac Project of Orlando. Starting Continue reading
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Episode 680: Katharine Coldiron!
Episode 680 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this episode, John speaks with the prose writer Katharine Coldiron about what bad movies teach us, about rejecting the idea of guilty pleasures, and the ubiquity of the sublime. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES If Continue reading
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Episode 679: Keith Mackenzie!
Episode 679 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this episode, John speaks with the novelist Keith MacKenzie about how to plan an unplannable thriller, and how body horror and comedy and existentialism are awfully close neighbors. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES Check out Continue reading
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Episode 678: Zach Zimmerman!
Episode 678 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this episode, John speaks with recent Kerouac Project of Orlando resident Zach Zimmerman about memoir, memories, childhood, comedy, tragedy, the problems of authenticity, and other vital literary matters. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES Check out Continue reading
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