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  • Episode 477: A Summer Solstice Special with Jefff Shuster!

    Episode 477 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, Jeff Shuster (our glorious Curator of Schlock) kick off summer by discussing two vintage summer camp films released in a two… Continue reading

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  • Episode 476: Anahid Nersessian!

    Episode 476 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, literary scholar Anahid Nersessian & I discuss John Keats, the potential for personal observations in academic work, the sexual politics of… Continue reading

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  • Episode 475: Kathleen Rooney!

    Episode 475 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 Kathleen Rooney about finding the spark to begin stories, the shape for long-form narratives, and the… Continue reading

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  • Episode 474: Nat Segaloff and Thomas Warming!

    Episode 474 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 Nat Segaloff and Thomas Warming about writing for and about Hollywood. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES TDO Listeners can get… Continue reading

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  • Episode 473: A Discussion of Tom Waits’s Swordfishtrombones with Stephen McClurg!

    Episode 473 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 bring music blogger Stephen McClurg aboard as we talk about one of the most transformative, dramatic, atmospheric, strange, American pastoral… Continue reading

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  • Episode 472: Spencer Huffman!

    Episode 472 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 spring 2021 resident of The Kerouac Project of Orlando, playwright Spencer Huffman. NOTES TDO Listeners can get… Continue reading

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  • Episode 471: A Discussion of Kurt Vonnegut’s Pity the Reader with Leslie Salas!

    Episode 471 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 Kurt Vonnegut’ and Suzanne McConnell’s compendious Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES… Continue reading

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  • Episode 470: Mixtape #14: I Don’t Know How to Talk to You Outside of a Poem

    Episode 470 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). NOTES This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at Scribophile. TDO Listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using… Continue reading

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  • Episode 469: Geoffrey Kent!

    Episode 469 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 speak with the actor Geoffrey Kent about Shakespeare in performance, how actors make the texts come alive, the modern English translation… Continue reading

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  • Episode 468: Alfred Corn!

    Episode 468 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 speak with the poet and translator Alfred Corn about Rainer Maria Rilke’s sublime Duino Elegies. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES TDO Listeners… Continue reading

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