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Episode 673: The Kerouac Project of Orlando Book Club Discussion of William S. Burrough’s Junky (with Matt Peters)!

Episode 673 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this show, John and Matt Peters inaugurate The Kerouac Project Book Club with a discussion of William S. Burrough’s first novel, Junky. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES NOTES If you’d like to support this show… Continue reading
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Episode 671: Dmetri Kakmi!

Episode 671 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this show, John speaks with Dmetri Kakmi about holding onto the mysteries of storytelling, the setting of Australia, the wild problem of self, and his wonderful new novel, The Woman in the Well.… Continue reading
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Episode 670: A Discussion of the Ewok Trilogy, with Jeff Shuster!

Episode 670 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this episode, a sadly sober podcaster and intrepid reviewer of cinematic schlock celebrate May the 4th by directing their attention to the most obscure Star Wars trilogy of them all. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES… Continue reading
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Episode 669: Shelley Fisher Fishkin!

Episode 669 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this show, John speaks with the literary scholar, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, who writes lucidly about classic American fiction in readable, important, and enjoyable prose. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES Check out the new comedy special… Continue reading
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Replay Episode: Tessa Mellas (2013)

This replay episode 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 replay episode, John talks to to the fiction writer Tessa Mellas, Plus Todd Sentell writes about Huckleberry Finn, A Good Man is Hard to Find, and the Near Death of Literature. TEXTS… Continue reading
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Episode 668: Margie Sarsfield!

Episode 668 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this show, John speaks with the literary novelist Margie Sarsfield. In Margie Sarsfield’s debut novel, Beta Vulgaris, a hipster Brooklyn couple take on temporary work at a Minnesota beet farm at harvest time in… Continue reading
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Episode 667: Sally Wen Mao and Susan Mauddi Darraj

Episode 667 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this show, correspondent Samantha Nickerson speaks with Sally Wen Mao about her story collection, Ninetails, plus Samantha speaks with Susan Mauddi Darraj about her new novel, Behind You Is The Sea. TEXTS DISCUSSED… Continue reading
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Episode 666: A Discussion of David Lynch’s Ronnie Rocket (with Stephen McClurg)

In honor of the passing of David Lynch, John and Stephen McClurg discuss the screenplay for a legendary Lynch project that was never made, Ronnie Rocket, which is a metaphysical detective story mixed with a Frankensteinesque story about a youngish rock and roll phenomenon called Ronny Rocket. TEXTS DISCUSSED Read Ronnie Rocket over at lynchnet.com.… Continue reading
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Episode 665: Jaydra Johnson!

In this week’s show, John speaks with Jaydra Johnson about her new book, Low: Notes on Art and Trash, and the tensions and connections between class perception, politics, and creation of art. TEXT DISCUSSED Check out Low from Fonograf Editions. NOTES Residency applications are now open at The Kerouac Project of Orlando. There is a new video… Continue reading
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