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Episode 693: Emily Van Duyne!

Episode 693 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). On this week’s show, John and Rachael Tillman interview the scholar and poet Emily Van Duyne about Sylvia Plath’s legacy as discussed in her remarkable… Continue reading
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Episode 692: Fire x Fire x Fire 2025 with Tod Caviness and Dianne Turgeon Richardson!

Episode 692 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). On this week’s show: John concocted a daft poetry game for friends with a body of work substantial enough to withstand randomization of theme and… Continue reading
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Episode 691: A.J. Rodriguez

Episode 691 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 speaks with fiction writer A.J. Rodriguez, the June-July 2025 Kerouac Project of Orlando resident. NOTES Check out AJ’s story “Papel Picado” over at “The Common.” Learn more about The… Continue reading
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Episode 690: Ivonne Lamazares!

Episode 690 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 speaks with Ivonne Lamazares about her new novel, The Tilting House. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Check out the upcoming offerings from Miami Book Fair. If you’d like to support this… Continue reading
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Episode 689: Schloctoberfest 2025 # 4 (A Discussion of Night of the Living Dead with Jeff Shuster)

On this week’s show, Jeff Shuster and I discuss the 1968 horror masterpiece Night of the Living Dead because how could we not? NOTES Check out the visionary lovely disorienting music of Descartes a Kant! If you’d like to support this show with a monthly subscription that will feature bonus content, please see TDO’s Patreon page.… Continue reading
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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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