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Category Archives: Florida Literature

Episode 110: Ryan Rivas and Nathan Holic!

26 Saturday Jul 2014

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Burrow Press, Florida Literature, Jonathan Kosik, Karen Best, Matt Peters, Nathan Holic, Orlando, Ryan Rivas

Episode 110 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 Ryan Rivas and Nathan Holic about the publication of Forget How You Found Us: 15 Views of Orlando, Volume III,

Nathan and Ryan

plus I share readings from stories by Karen Best, Matt Peters, and Jonathan Kosik from the collection.

15 Views Authors

TEXTS DISCUSSED

15 Views Volume III

NOTES

Learn about the great youth programs offered by Page 15 in Orlando.

Amazon is having a bad quarter, according to The New York Times.

Next month, Third Man Books, the new print publishing wing of Third Man Records, will release an anthology called Language Lessons, Volume 1.

Quentin Tarantino will be filming The Hateful Eight after all, according to Kurt Russell and the L.A. Times.

Check out the amazing surf rock revival of The Bambi Molesters.


Episode 110 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 100: Mailbag Episode 5 (The Dream Child)

24 Saturday May 2014

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David James Poissant, Rose Tran

Episode 100 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,

PoissantPlus Rose Tran shares a memoir piece about her unpleasantly Proustian relationship to Florida weather.

Rose Tran

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Mary Gordon’s essay Moral Fiction.

Frederick Barthelme’s list of writing tips, 39 Steps.

Darin Strauss’s Notes on Narrative.

Elmore Leonard’s Ten Rules of Writing.

introducing Cultural Studies

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Class

The Restraint of Beasts

Harlan Ellison’s I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.

On Episode 2, Jaroslav Kalfař and I discussed John Gardner’s The Art of Fiction.

On Episode 6, Jaroslav Kalfař and I discussed Stephen King’s On Writing. 

NOTES

Amazon is acting so dickish with Hachette that even USA Today is reporting on it.


Episode 100 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 97: Lu Vickers!

03 Saturday May 2014

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Episode 97 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 and historian of Florida attractions Lu Vickers,

lu_vickers

Plus Joe Marchia writes about Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood.

Joe Marchia

 TEXTS DISCUSSED 

Breathing Underwater

weeki_wachee_mermaids_rgb

Cypress Gardens

WeekiWachee

NOTES 

Check Out our new videos:

St Marks BookshopCheck out this indiegogo crowd-sourcing effort to bring St. Mark’s Bookshop to a new home in the East Village.

Sheman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is given away to students in an Iowa district in which the novel is banned from schools.

On May 13th, I will participate in The Best of There Will Be Words 2013 show. If you’re in Orlando, join us.

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Episode 97 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 87: Vanessa Blakeslee!

01 Saturday Mar 2014

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Anthony Seidman, Burrow Press, Creative Writing, Florida Literature, Philip Deaver, Rollins College, Ryan Rivas, The City of Dreadful Night, Train Shots, Vanessa Blakeslee

Episode 87 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 fiction writer Vanessa Blakeslee,

Vanessa Blakeslee

And Anthony Seidman writes about James Thompson’s The City of Dreadful Night.

Anthony Seidman

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Train Shots

The City of Dreadful Night

NOTES

If you live in NYC, check out this wonderful event with my friends Gilbert King (episode 60) and my fellow NYU alum, Maaza Mengiste. RSVP is required.

Poster

Find Burrow Press’s releases here, & check out the discounted subscription rate.

If you live in Orlando, do come to Vanessa’s book release party.

Train Shots Release Party

Episode 87 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 83: Lynn Waddell!

01 Saturday Feb 2014

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Florida Literature, Fringe Florida, Journalism, Lynn Waddell

Episode 83 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 journalist Lynn Waddell,

Lynn Waddel

Plus D. S. Jones writes about how the Charles Bukowski’s Post Office changed his life.

DS Jones

 NOTES

In the recording of this week’s show, I forgot I owe a big thank you to Teale Amthor-Shaffer!

The Florida Writers’ Conference goes from February 13th-15th, ending with the Florida premiere of Terry Giliam’s new film, written by Pat Rushin, The Zero Theorem. Click here to learn how to register for the conference.

zero theorem

John King Poster

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The Heaven of Animals, the forthcoming collection from friend-of-the-show David James Poissant, is available for pre-order. Please support the launch of this exquisite collection.
The Heaven of Animals

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Fringe Florida

 Post Office

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail

Episode 83 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

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