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Episode 718: Gilbert King, Plus Laura Lee Baher and Erik Deckers Event!

Episode 718 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). In this week’s episode, John interviews the Pulitzer Prize-wining justice journalist and researcher Gilbert King, plus TDO proudly shares a dual book-launch event for Laura… Continue reading
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Episode 717: Bob Spitz!

Episode 717 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). In this week’s episode, John interviews music journalist and biographer Bob Spitz about the massive sixty-year career of The Rolling Stones, how the music moves… Continue reading
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Episode 716: The Kerouac Project of Orlando Book Club Discussion of William S. Burroughs’s Naked Lunch (with Matt Peters)!

Episode 716 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). In this week’s episode, John and Matt Peters complete their discussion of William S. Burroughs’s first quartet of manuscripts as part of The Kerouac Project… Continue reading
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Episode 715: Henry Hughes!

Episode 715 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). In this week’s episode, John speaks with the poet Henry Hughes about poetry, fishing, patience, creativity, Charles Bukowski, and other matters of literary interest. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES… Continue reading
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Episode 714: Lara Egger

Episode 714 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). In this week’s episode, John speaks with the poet Lara Egger about her new book, Flop Era. Other topics covered: the jostling of syntax, the… Continue reading
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Episode 713: Dave Housley!

Episode 713 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). In this week’s episode, John speaks with fiction writer and editor Dave Housley about the joys of using writing prompts, the problem-solving of writing meaningfully… Continue reading
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Episode 712: A Discussion of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, with Rachael Tillman!

Episode 712 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). In this week’s show, Rachael Tillman and I discuss The Bell Jar, in part 3 of our series on Sylvia Plath. If you are keen,… Continue reading
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Episode 711: A Discussion of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, with Sophia Ferrara!

Episode 711 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. Sophia Ferrara returns to the secret HQ of TDO to chat about the pleasure-filled dystopia of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, while John freaks out about the novel’s structure or lack thereof. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES… Continue reading
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Episode 710: A Discussion of William Harrison’s Rollerball, with Sophia Ferrara!

Episode 710 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. Sophia Ferrara returns to the secret HQ of TDO to chat about the dystopia of Rollerball, as imagined in the film and the short story, which was called “Roller Ball Murder.” Jonathan E and… Continue reading
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Episode 709: Philip Schultz!

Episode 709 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 show, John speaks with the poet Philip Schultz about his wonderful new poetry collection, Enormous Morning. We discuss the self-critical voices that Philip calls the shit-bird, how personas can empower us to become… Continue reading
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