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Episode 76: Richard Blanco!
Episode 76 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 my interview with the poet Richard Blanco, Plus Kenneth Nichols writes about reading Tom Perrotta’s Joe College. NOTES In memorium: my dear friend, my dread lord, my bully rook, Kevin… Continue reading
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Episode 75: The Repeal Day Show!
Episode 75 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 TDO’s Repeal Day party, starring Robert Cassanelo, Mark Pursell, Hunter Choate, Leslie Salas, Anna King, Dan Lauer, and Teege Braune! NOTES Leslie Salas took so many great photos,… Continue reading
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Episode 74: Nikki Giovanni!
Episode 74 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 interview the legend Nikki Giovanni, plus Peter Biello writes about reading Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Peter Biello’s essay on The Road featured “Found Children” from Carlton Melton’s Pass it… Continue reading
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Episode 73: Matt Bell!
Episode 73 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 interview fiction writer Matt Bell, plus Rose Tran writes about encountering Matt Bell’s How They Were Found. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Watch Matt Bell’s reading at the University of Central Florida.… Continue reading
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Episode 72: We Drink!
Episode 72 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, My friends Teege Braune of In Boozo Veritas fame, Matt Peters of Windward Press, and MFA candidate Dianne Turgeon Richardson join me to discuss matters literary and drinkerly. Plus Dave Patterson writes… Continue reading
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Episode 71: Mailbag Episode 3 (The Guermantes Way)
Episode 71 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 answer some mail with my friend, David James Poissant, Plus Dan Lauer writes about a unique book that changed his life. NOTES R.I.P., Oscar Hijuelos. The Heaven of Animals, the… Continue reading
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Episode 70: Tessa Mellas!
Episode 70 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 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 DISCUSSED… Continue reading
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Episode 69: Nathan Holic and Lindsay Hunter Perform in Functionally Literate!
Episode 69 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 share the latest installment of Functionally Literate, the reading series hosted by Jared Silvia, and this time featuring Nathan Holic and Lindsay Hunter! Episode 69 of The Drunken Odyssey,… Continue reading
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Episode 68: Kristiana Kahakauwila!
Episode 68 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 fiction writer Kristiana Kahakauwila, Plus Graham Hillard reads his memoir essay, “Physical Education.” TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Read Alise Hamilton’s review of This is Paradise in Buzzed Books. Graham… Continue reading
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Episode 67: Lindsay Hunter!
Episode 67 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 fiction writer Lindsay Hunter, Plus David Dadurka writes about Lewis Carroll. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES A North Carolina school board has voted to ban Ralph Ellison’s Invisible… Continue reading
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