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Episode 356: Chad Anderson!
Episode 356 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 to fiction writer Chad Anderson near the end of his residency at The Kerouac House here in Orlando, Florida. We spoke about the importance of memories, including lost… Continue reading
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Episode 354: Todd James Pierce
Episode 354 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 to Todd James Pierce about his new biography of Ward Kimball from an epic corridor of The Wilderness Lodge at Walt Disney World. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Check out… Continue reading
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Episode 353: A Discussion of Two Classic French Post-structuralist Essays!
Episode 353 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, Vanessa Blakeslee and I survive reading Roland Barthes’s “The Death of the Author” and “What is an Author?” by Michel Foucault. TEXTS DISCUSSED Check Out Vanessa’s Books! NOTES Suggested donation:… Continue reading
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Episode 352: Terry Ann Thaxton
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… Continue reading
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Episode 351: Elliot Ackerman!
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. TEXTS DISCUSSED… Continue reading
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Episode 350: Eleanor Matthews!
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. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Episode 350 of The… Continue reading
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Episode 349: A Craft Discussion of The Birth of Tragedy, with Vanessa Blakeslee and Mark Pisczek!
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. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES If you live in Orlando,… Continue reading
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Episode 348: Ben Fountain, Celeste Ng, and Gary Shteyngart!
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! TEXTS DISCUSSED Episode 348 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available… Continue reading
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Episode 347: Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Juan Felipe Herrera, and Billy Collins!
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! TEXTS DISCUSSED Episode 347 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is… Continue reading
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