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October 15, 2016

Episode 228: Readings from HP Lovecraft

Episode 228 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 show, I present a quartet of readings from HP Lovecraft: “The Beast in the Cave,” “The Tree,” “Beyond the Wall of Sleep,” and “From Beyond.” Our readers are Chris Booth, Elise… Continue reading

Episode, Horror

Beyond the Wall of Sleep, Chris Booth, Elise McKenna, From Beyond, HP Lovecraft, The Beast in the Cave, The Tree, Tom Lucas
October 8, 2016

Episode 227: HP Lovecraft Roundtable!

Episode 227 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 and my inestimable guests have a fine conversation about Lovecraft and his bizarre tales and his rather strange life and his exceptionally unfortunate opinions The participants included Elise McKenna, Tom… Continue reading

Episode, Horror

Cthulhu, Dianne Turgeon Richardson, Dunwich Horror, Elise McKenna, HP Lovecraft, John King, Julian Chambliss, The Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Tom Lucas, Weird Tales
October 1, 2016

Episode 226: Vidhu Aggarwal!

Episode 226 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 poet Vidhu Aggarwal, plus Adelia Johnson writes about Ned Vizzini’s It’s Kind of a Funny Story changed her life. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Here is Ned Vizzini’s obituary from The… Continue reading

Episode, Poetry, Young Adult

A Witness in Exile, Adelia Johnson, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, Ned Vizzini, The Trouble with Humpadori, Vidhu Aggarwal
September 24, 2016

Episode 225: Bob Kealing!

Episode 225 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 the journalist and historian, Bob Kealing, plus Heather Whited reads her essay about eating and drinking in Japan, “Onigiri, Shirasagi, and Me.” TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES The Daytona News-JournalThe… Continue reading

Episode, History
September 17, 2016

Episode 224: A Craft Discussion About Virginia Woolf’s “Modern Fiction” and “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown,” with Vanessa Blakeslee!

Episode 224 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 Virginia Woolf’s “Modern Fiction” and “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown,” plus Mingzhao Xu writes about Diana Gabaldon’s Outlanders series changed her life. TEXTS DISCUSSED Mr. Kim (Kindle… Continue reading

Craft of Fiction Writing, Episode

Diana Gabaldon, Ilyse Kusnetz, Lionel Shriver, Modern Fiction, Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown, Outlander, Vanessa Blakeslee, Virginia Woolf
September 10, 2016

Episode 223: Vu Tran!

Episode 223 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 the novelist Vu Tran about the appeal of detective fiction, the importance of literary substance over style, the problem with femme fatale characters, the Iowa MFA experience, and… Continue reading

Craft of Fiction Writing, Episode
September 3, 2016

Episode #222: Ryler Dustin!

Episode 222 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 the poet and novelist Ryler Dustin near the end of his residency at the Kerouac House in Orlando, after a weeklong tour of weddings. We speak about the… Continue reading

Craft of Fiction Writing, Episode, Kerouac House, Poetry

Kerouac House, Ryler Dustin
August 27, 2016

Episode 221: There Will Be Fan Fiction 2 (The Revenge)

Episode 221 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 share There Will Be Fan Fiction 2, a special edition of Jesse Bradley’s prose reading series, There Will Be Words. This installment features the fan fiction of Shauna Basques… Continue reading

Blog Post, Comic Books, Disney, Episode, Fan Fiction, Fantasy, Flash Fiction, Science Fiction

A.C. Warner, Aura, Batman, Brontë Bettencourt, Fatal Attraction, Flash Gordon, Frozen, J. Bradley, Jason Todd, John King, Litlando, Ming the Merciless, Shauna Basques, The Mighty Ducks, There Will Be Fan Fiction, There Will Be Words
August 20, 2016

Episode 220: Sam Slaughter!

Episode 220 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 my friend, fiction writer Sam Slaughter, who I met back in 2014, when he wrote a little something about Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son for the show. We talk about his… Continue reading

Episode, Florida Literature, Literary Prizes, Literature of Florida, Memoir, Travel Writing

A Brief History of World Travel (Part 8): Notes on Baltimore, Bastard Out of Carolina, Denis Johnson, Dorothy Allison, Florida Man, God in Neon, Jesus’ Son, Mark Powell, Orlando, Sam Slaughter, The Bambi Molesters, The Young Widower’s Handbook, There Will Be Words, Tom McAllister, When You Cross That Line
August 13, 2016

Episode #219: Loose Lips Live Show!

Episode 219 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 share a recording of Loose Lips, the monthly current events literary thing hosted by the inestimable Tod Caviness. The line up on that evening was Ryan Rivas, my awesome… Continue reading

Disney, Episode

Amy Watkins, Li’l Indies, Logan Anderson, Loose Lips, Mary McGinn, Ryan Rivas, Tod Caviness

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