Episode

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Episode 467: Ciara Shuttleworth!

    Episode 467 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 Ciara Shuttleworth about poetry, telling factions, limerence, running with the Muses, being open to delight, and the importance… Continue reading

  • Episode 466: Maxim Loskutoff!

    Episode 466 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 Maxim Loskutoff about Montana and the messy importance of setting, the fecund symbolism of reality, and attending NYU’s creative… Continue reading

  • Episode 465: Samantha Hart!

    Episode 465 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 Samantha Hart about her wonderful debut memoir, Blind Pony, Plus I speak with Scott Cunningham about the monthlong poetry… Continue reading

  • Episode 464: A Discussion of Allie Brosh’s Solutions and Other Problems (with Leslie Salas)!

    Episode 464 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 Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Half and Solutions and Other Problems. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES TDO Listeners can… Continue reading

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