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December 5, 2016

Episode 236: Bill Savage (A Repeal Day Special Interview)!

Episode 236 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 talk to the literary historian Bill Savage about the re-release of George Ade’s 1931 classic, breezy history of drinking culture in America. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES Watch and hear Bill’s… Continue reading

Drinking, Episode, History, Journalism
December 3, 2016

Episode 235: There Will Be Words and/or Doom!

Episode 235 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 present an Election Day version Jesse Bradley’s prose reading series, There Will Be Words, or in this case, There Will Be Words and/or Doom. The readers included myself Rachel Kolman,… Continue reading

Episode, Live Show, There Will Be Words

Election Day, Glendaliz Camacho, J. Bradley, Rachel Kolman, Richard Nixon, There Will Be Words, Whitney Hamrick
November 26, 2016

Episode 234: Sayantani Dasgupta!

Episode 234 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 talk to the nonfiction writer Sayantani Dasgupta about creative nonfiction, the romance of reading, and the powerful appeal of the in-between. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Listen to Sayantani’s essay about 20,000… Continue reading

Creative Nonfiction, Episode

Fire Girl: Essays on India America and the In-Between, Sayantani Dasgupta
November 19, 2016

Episode 233: A Craft Discussion About David Foster Wallace’s “E Unibus Plurim: Television and U.S. Fiction” with Vanessa Blakeslee!

Episode 233 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 Foster Wallace’s “E Unibus Plurim: Television and U.S. Fiction.” TEXTS DISCUSSED Read David Foster Wallace’s 1993 essay “E Unibus Plurim: Television and U.S. Fiction” here. Episode… Continue reading

David Foster Wallace, Episode, Postmodernism, Television

David Foster Wallace, E Unibus Plurim: Television and U.S. Fiction., The Review of Contemporary Fiction
November 12, 2016

Episode 232: Pamela Skjolsvik!

Episode 232 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 talk to the nonfiction writer Pamela Skjolsvik about creative nonfiction, anxiety, and death, plus I briefly eulogize a triumvirate of entertainers: Leonard Cohen, Robert Vaughn, and Kevin Meaney. TEXT DISCUSSED… Continue reading

Creative Nonfiction, David Sedaris, Episode
November 5, 2016

Episode 231: Craig Pittman!

Episode 231 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 nonfiction writer, Craig Pittman. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES On November 8th, come hear me, Gelndaliz Camacho, Rachel Kolman, and Whitney Hamrick read at There Will Be Words at The Gallery… Continue reading

Episode, Journalism

Craig Pittman, Manatee Insanity, Oh Florida!, The Scent of Scandal: Greed Betrayal and the World’s Most Beautiful Orchid
October 29, 2016

Episode 230: Horror Movie Poetry Night III

Episode 230 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 live show: Horror Movie Poetry Night III. We enter the dark rubicons of The Exorcist, Halloween, The Island of Dr. Moreau, John Carpenter’s The Thing, Halloween III: Season of the… Continue reading

Episode, Horror

Curtis X. Meyer, Darling, Friday the 13th Part III, Glendaliz Camacho, Halloween, Halloween III: Season of the Witch, Jared Silvia, Jim Driggers, John Carpenter’s The Thing, King King, Psycho, Shawn McKee, Stacy Barton, Teege Braune, The Exorcist, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Shining, The Silence of the Lambs, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Whitney Hamrick, Writer’s Atelier
October 22, 2016

Episode 229: The 6th Annual Flash Fiction Spooktacular!

Episode 229 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 return to Jesse Bradley’s Halloween installment of his prose reading series, There Will Be Words. Plus a final performance from The Terrible Mr. Sundrop. Episode 229 of The Drunken Odyssey,… Continue reading

Episode, Horror

Adam Johnson, Erik Deckers, J. Bradley, Jared Silvia, Karen Best, Shawn McKee, Teege Braune, There Will Be Words
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

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