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Episode 300: A Craft Discussion of Three Uses of the Knife, with Vanessa Blakeslee!
Episode 300 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 with Vanessa Blakeslee about David Mamet’s Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama. We manage not to kill one another. TEXTS DISCUSSED Episode 300 of The Drunken… Continue reading
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Episode 299: Laleh Khadivi!
Episode 299 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s program, I talk to the novelist Laleh Khadivi about empathy, anticipating the future, the snarl of time management, challenging oneself as a writer as a form of motivation, the absolute transformation… Continue reading
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Episode 298: A Night of Protest Poetry!
Episode 298 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On January 19th, 2018, Dianne Turgeon Richardson hosted an evening of protest poetry at Milk Bar in Orlando, Florida! The readers included on this recording are Talor Carr, Rachel Fox, Lana Ghannam, Drew Weinbrenner, John… Continue reading
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Episode 297: Paul Muldoon & Patricia Smith!
Episode 297 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s program, I talk to poets Paul Muldoon and Patricia Smith! Texts Discussed NOTES Please subscribe to my youtube channel, and leave a review of the show on iTunes. Episode 297 of… Continue reading
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Episode 296: Denise Duhamel!
Episode 296 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s program, I talk to the poet Denise Duhamel about the role of politics and play in poetry. BOOKS DISCUSSED NOTES Here in Orlando, the City Beautiful, come out and hear some… Continue reading
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Episode 295: Charles Simic & Richard Blanco!
Episode 295 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s program, I talk to Charles Simic about James Tate, Kansas surrealism, humor in poetry, and embracing the unconscious, plus I talk to Richard Blanco about the accidents that turn us into… Continue reading
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Episode 294: Ben Blum!
Episode 294 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 catch up with Ben Blum, who was my colleague in a Jonathan Lethem workshop circa 2009, and talk about finding room for earnestness in a postmodern outlook, finding room… Continue reading
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Episode 293: A Star Wars Roundtable (Happy Life Day!)
Episode 293 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, Tod Caviness, Julian Chambliss, Dianne Turgeon Richardson, and Jared Silvia join me in a roundtable discussion of the Star Wars Christmas Special of 1978 and maybe got a few other topics in there… Continue reading
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Episode 292: On the Road’s 60th Anniversary Show!
Episode 292 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, we return to September 5th, 2017, the 60th anniversary of the publication of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. This celebration included Tod Caviness, Janna Benge, Bob Kealing, Erik Deckers, Suleika Jaouad, Karen Price, Holly… Continue reading
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Episode 291: A Very French Christmas!
Episode 291 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 with Vanessa Blakeslee about the new fiction anthology, A Very French Christmas, from New Vessel Press. NOTES Some context for the dubious Dutch tradition of Black Pete. David Sedaris discusses this in… Continue reading
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