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Episode 135: A Craft Discussion About James Wood’s How Fiction Works, with Vanessa Blakeslee!
Episode 135 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 about James Wood’s How Fiction Works with Vanessa Blakeslee, Plus Amy Penne writes about how David Foster Wallace’s Consider the Lobster and Other Essays changed her life. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES On Tuesday,… Continue reading
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Episode 134: Stuart Dybek and Denise Duhamel!
Episode 134 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 another Miami BookFair International interview, this one with fiction writer and poet Stuart Dybek, and I also talk to the poet Denise Duhamel, plus Jim Ross writes about how… Continue reading
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Episode 133: John Waters!
Episode 133 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 another Miami BookFair International interview, this one with writer and filmmaker John Waters. TEXTS DISCUSSED Check out the voice of one of the dog show officials in this… Continue reading
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Episode 132: Joanna Rakoff and Tony Hoagland!
Episode 132 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 interview novelist and memoirsit Joanna Rakoff, and then talk once again with the poet Tony Hoagland, plus Brittany McIntyre writes bravely about how a book I never expected to… Continue reading
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Episode 131: A Christmas Radio Play
Episode 131 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. This week’s episode got a bit out of hand. Jared Silvia tells me that, for legal reasons, this needs to be called a radio play. Anyway, I talk to Santa, have an interview you… Continue reading
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Episode 130: Jaquira Díaz!
Episode 130 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 interview author and editor Jaquira Díaz. TEXTS DISCUSSED Read Jaquira Díaz’s “Cami” at Story South. Read Jocelyn Bartkevicius’s “Out of the Garden” at The Missouri Review. To hear more… Continue reading
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Episode 129: Repeal Day 2014
Episode 129 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 a rambunctious reading honoring Repeal Day, which I think might be one of the twelve days of Christmas. The Drunken Odyssey All Stars included… Dianne Turgeon Richardson Tod… Continue reading
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Episode 128: Michael Hearst!
Episode 128 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 interview the musician, Michael Hearst. Plus Danita Berg reads her essay, “A Note on my Skin.” TEXTS DISCUSSED http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CDSak1Pcbs NOTES The music accompanying Danita Berg’s essay is Carlton Melton’s… Continue reading
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Episode 127: Mixtape #2 (A Distance Coat)
Episode 127 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 offer TDO’s second mixtape. This one is vintage, from my M.A. years (circa 1996?). Enjoy! Continue reading
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