Episode 491: TDO vs. The Curator of Schlock #5

02 Saturday Oct 2021

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Episode 491 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

Photo by Leslie Salas.

On this week’s show, Jeff Shuster and I discuss 2002’s classic horror film, Ju-on: The Grudge.

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Check out Jeff’s column, The Curator of Schlock.
Check out my literary adventure novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

490: An Unauthorized Commentary on Martin Scorcese’s Casino, with Patrick Jehle!

18 Saturday Sep 2021

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Episode 490 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

On this week’s episode, Patrick Jehle and I speculate on the spiritual cinematography, the compelling dialogue, and the tragic stories that comprise the greatness of Martin Scorcese’s Casino.

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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.

Episode 489: Aimee Bender!

13 Monday Sep 2021

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Episode 489 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

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In this week’s show, I talk to fiction writer Aimee Bender about the subterranean connections that literary fiction makes between one and oneself, and between one and others; the difficult epistemology of sanity; the possibility of fiction not driven by interpersonal conflict; and other subjects of interest.

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This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at Scribophile.

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.

Check out the dates for this year’s Miami Book Fair.

Episode 488: Mixtape #15 (Sailing an Ocean of Violets in Bloom)!

05 Sunday Sep 2021

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Episode 488 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

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This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at Scribophile.

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.

Episode 487: Todd James Pierce!

28 Saturday Aug 2021

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Episode 487 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

In this week’s show, I talk to Disney historian Todd James Pierce about how Covid-19 and the home streaming of entertainment might affect the future of visual storytelling, plus we discuss his current historical work on Disney Legend John Hench.

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Check out Todd’s site and podcast, The Disney History Institute.

Episode 486: Jan Elizabeth Watson!

21 Saturday Aug 2021

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Episode 486 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

In this week’s show, I talk to the novelist Jan Elizabeth Watson about a great many things.

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Check out my literary adventure novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

Episode 485: Drew Barth!

14 Saturday Aug 2021

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Episode 485 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

In this week’s show, I talk to Drew Barth about comic book obsessions.

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Check out my literary adventure novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

Episode 484: James Tate Hill!

07 Saturday Aug 2021

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Episode 484 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

In this week’s show, I interview fiction writer and memoirist, James Tate Hill.

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This Wednesday night at 6 PM EST via zoom, a version of the Whose Line Is It Anyway cast will be performing ‘Whose Governor is DeSantis Anyway?’ to benefit Ron Be Gone, a Super PAC formed to defeat Ron DeSantis in the next election. Greg Proops, Colin Mochrie, and Ryan Stiles will be there, along with Stephanie Murphy and Candidates Charlie Crist and Nikki Fried.
Check out my literary adventure novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

Episode 483: Tim Parks!

31 Saturday Jul 2021

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Episode 483 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

In this week’s show, I interview a writer I’m obsessed with, the prose writer Tim Parks.

We talk about walking and its relationship to composition, plus the historical vision of Garibaldi, and the provoking contradictions of historical record.

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Check out my literary adventure novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

Episode 483 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

Episode 482: A Discussion of Introducing Cultural Studies, with Leslie Salas!

24 Saturday Jul 2021

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Episode 482 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

In this week’s show, Leslie Salas and I discuss Ziauddan Sardar and Borin Van Loon’s Introducing Cultural Studies.

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Check out my literary adventure novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

Episode 482 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).