Episode 558: Jennifer Worley!

07 Saturday Jan 2023

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This week I speak with the prose writer, Jennifer Worley, the fall 2022 resident of The Kerouac Project of Orlando.

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Episode 557: Jason Roeder!

31 Saturday Dec 2022

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This week I speak with my friend Jason about the creative joys of grieving and the power of earnestness and other matters of interest.

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Episode 556: Lynn Melnick!

24 Saturday Dec 2022

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The poet and memoirist Lynn Melnick talks with me about the cleverness and heart of Dolly Parton, who can serve as more than a cultural icon as we try to discover how to make our unique ways in the world.

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Episode 555: Julia Koets (interviewed by Rochelle Hurt)

17 Saturday Dec 2022

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Rochelle Hurt interviews Julia Koets about romantic desire and loss, the villanelle form, the layouts of poetry volumes, growing up with the policing of restrictive gender norms, how research contributes to creativity, the linguistic surprises lurking in the mundane world.

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Episode 554: Chrissy Kolaya!

03 Saturday Dec 2022

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On this week’s program, I talk to the poet and novelist Chrissy Kolaya about the creative process, psychology, and the multitudinous tensions of being an American.

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Episode 553: Robert Pinsky!

26 Saturday Nov 2022

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On this week’s program, I talk to Robert Pinsky about his playful, exquisite, earthy, reverence memoir about his relationship to Long Branch and the rest of New Jersey too.

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Episode 553 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 552: A Celebration of Salman Rushdie and Miami Book Fair!

18 Friday Nov 2022

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Miami Book Fair, Salman Rushdie, The Golden House, The Old Man in the Piazza

Episode 552 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 program, I talk to Chelsea Alice about Salman Rushdie’s playful parable from 2020, “The Old Man in the Piazza,” published in The New Yorker, plus I share Salman Rushdie’s 2017 event from Miami Book Fair, in which he reads from his novel, The Golden House.

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A link to “The Old Man in the Piazza” is here.

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This episode is released in association with Miami Book Fair.

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Episode #551: Elliot Ackerman!

12 Saturday Nov 2022

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On this week’s program, I talk to the fiction writer and memoirist Elliot Ackerman.

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This episode is released in association with Miami Book Fair.

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Episode 551 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 550: Jonathan Ames!

05 Saturday Nov 2022

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Episode 550 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 program, I talk to the fiction writer and former memoirist Jonathan Ames.

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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.

This episode is released in association with Miami Book Fair.

Check out Episode 312, in which I interviewed Gerald Stern.

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Episode 549: TDO Loves The Curator of Schlock #14

31 Monday Oct 2022

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On this week’s show, Jeff Shuster and I discuss a wild, strange, deadpan, homicidal roadtrip story that is The Doom Generation.

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Roger Ebert’s review of The Doom Generation is here.

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