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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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Episode 664: Rigoberto Gonzales and Richard Blanco!
This week, John talks to editor and poet Rigoberto Gonzalez about the curation of the Library of America anthology of Latino Poetry. Then John talks to Richard Blanco, whose poem, “Como Tú,” appears in that anthology. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Residency applications are now open at The Kerouac Project of Orlando. There is a new video over… Continue reading
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Episode 663: A Discussion of Bill Knott’s The Naomi Poems (with Rachael Tillman)!
On this week’s episode, Rachael Tillman and I discuss the surreal paradoxes and sullen joys of Bill Knott’s debut collection of poetry, The Naomi Poems: Corpse and Beans, which was recently reprinted by Black Ocean Press, with a worthy introduction penned by Richard Hell. TEXTS DICUSSED NOTES Residency applications are now open at The Kerouac Project of… Continue reading
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Episode 662: Susan Minot and Rufi Thorpe (interviewed by Samantha Nickerson)!
On today’s episode, Samantha Nickerson speaks with fiction writer Rufi Thorpe about her striking novel Margo’s Got Money Problems. In this episode, you learn about more than just Margo’s money problems. Samantha and Rufi discuss Only Fans, wrestling, creating characters, and motherhood’s thorny identity. Samantha then speaks to Susan Minot about erotic obsession, alienation, hyper-thinking, consciously making bad choices, and the presentation of… Continue reading
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Episode 661: Kathy Fish!
In this episode, John interviews the notable flash fiction writer Kathy Fish about the anxious nuances of that medium and genre. Is flash fiction just a very short story, with all the rules of fiction at work? Or is flash fiction a less traditional, immersive fictional happening that takes somewhere between the length of a… Continue reading
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