Episode 352: Terry Ann Thaxton

02 Saturday Feb 2019

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Episode 352 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 episode, I chat with my friend Terry Ann Thaxton about poetry, parents, mortality, yard work, mud, and the underrated useful of writing prompts for professional writers. We were tired, but we laughed a lot.

John King and Terry Ann Thaxton at Jack Kerouac’s house in Orlando. Jared Silvia is saying something behind us. Photo by Katherine J. Parker.

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Episode 352 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 351: Elliot Ackerman!

26 Saturday Jan 2019

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Dark at the Crossing, Elliot Ackerman, Green on Blue, Waiting for Eden

Episode 351of 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 episode, I speak with the war veteran, journalist, and novelist Elliot Ackerman about composition and revision strategies, and the emotional access points from our own experience to the stories we tell.

Photo by Huger Foote.

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Episode 351of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 350: Eleanor Matthews!

19 Saturday Jan 2019

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Episode 350 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 episode, I speak with the Kerouac House’s fall 2018 resident, Eleanor Matthews about Victorian novels, characterization and plots, and the connections between physical activity and creative writing.

Photo by Katherine Parker.

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Episode 350 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 349: A Craft Discussion of The Birth of Tragedy, with Vanessa Blakeslee and Mark Pisczek!

12 Saturday Jan 2019

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Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

Episode 349 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 episode, I croak with Vanessa Blakeslee and Mark Pisczek about the Apollonian and Dionysian origins of storytelling as explored in Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy.

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NOTES

If you live in Orlando, come hear Mark and his band, Strange Angels, play jazz at the Imperial at Washburn Imports this Thursday, January 17, 2019, 8-11 PM.

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1800 N Orange BLVD / Orlando, FL 32804.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2187842224789407/

Episode 349 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 348: Ben Fountain, Celeste Ng, and Gary Shteyngart!

05 Saturday Jan 2019

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Beautiful Country Burn Again, Ben Fountain, Celeste Ng, Gary Shteyngart, Lake Success, Little Fires Everywhere

Episode 348 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

This week has Miami Book Fair International conversations with Ben Fountain, Celeste Ng, and Gary Shteyngart!

Ben Fountain and beverages in the Confucius Institute at Miami-Dade College.

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beautiful country burn again little fires everywhere lake success

Episode 348 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 347: Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Juan Felipe Herrera, and Billy Collins!

29 Saturday Dec 2018

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Episode 347 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

This week is a cornucopia of poetry conversation with Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Juan Felipe Herrera, and Billy Collins!

Juan Felipe Herrera

Billy Collins

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Oceanic

JabberWalking Imagine The Rain in Portugal

Episode 347 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 346: A Bootlegged Christmas Gift!

22 Saturday Dec 2018

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Episode 346 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

While I try to get rid of this cold and catch up on some sleep, here’s a vintage recording I acquired through bootleg trading I did in the 1990s. I hope you like it.

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(It’s a secret gift that may or may not involve Hunter S. Thompson in some way.)

Episode 345: Chip Kidd!

15 Saturday Dec 2018

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Episode 345 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 episode, I share a conversation I had with author, editor, comic book fan, and book designer Chip Kidd, from about 40 feet away from Biscayne Bay. We spoke about the DC/Marvel divide, the sublime art of Alex Ross, how art springs from our need to see the work we want to enjoy the most, and how so many areas of the book business intersect, if you are paying attention.

Chip Kidd

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Episode 345 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 344: Loose Lips December 2018!

08 Saturday Dec 2018

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Episode 344 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 episode, I share a recording of Loose Lips, the monthly current events literary thing run by Burrow Press, who selected Katherine J. Parker to curate and host this installment.

Katherine J. Parker by Jared Silvia.

Joshua Begley by by Jared Silvia.

Whitney Paige Hamrick by Jared Silvia.

John King by Jared Silvia.

Karen Price by Jared Silvia.

Tom Lucas by Jared Silvia.

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Check out John’s previous appearances on Loose Lips:

Episode 344 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 343: A Very Italian Christmas!

01 Saturday Dec 2018

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Episode 343 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 episode, I talk with Vanessa Blakeslee about the new story anthology, A Very Italian Christmas, from New Vessel Press.

John Vanessa Italian Christmas

In our discussion, we manage to talk about yuletide loneliness, poverty, despair, prostitution, elk herds, Christmas, fascism, prostitution, friendship, Paul Auster’s screenplay for Smoke, and David Sedaris’s classic essay, “Dinah the Christmas Whore.”

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Check out Vanessa and I talking about A Very French Christmas from last year.

Check out my interview with Davis Sedaris back on episode 50.

Episode 343 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.