History

November 13, 2019

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #44: Slipping Through the Cracks

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #44 by Drew Barth Slipping Through the Cracks Throughout the year, hundreds of comics are released. Dozens of new series begin. Sometimes those new series escape the eye of even eager readers. This happens to me every few months—a series just doesn’t appear on the new release calendar Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart, History, Science Fiction

September 21, 2019

Episode 385: Gilbert King!

Episode 385 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). In this week’s episode, I talk with historian and crime writer Gilbert King about the history of justice and journalism, the role of luck Continue reading

Creative Nonfiction, Episode, History

Beneath a Ruthless Sun, Devil in the Grove, Gilbert King

July 17, 2018

Buzzed Books #65: 1776

Buzzed Books #65 by Chuck Cannini 1776 For Serialbox.com, the Associated Press collaborated to write an episodic series about the lives of farmers, accountants, teachers, and high school dropouts from a certain thirteen colonies in the fateful year of 1776. This is one for history buffs, but the readership should not stop there. The chapters are Continue reading

Buzzed Books, History

June 16, 2018

Episode 319: Julian Chambliss!

Episode 319 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 program, Julian Chambliss returns to the secret headquarters of TDO so we could share notes about the first season of the new television show of Black Lightning, and consider the context Continue reading

Comic Books, Episode, History

Black Lightning, Cress Williams, DC Comics, Julian Chambliss, Krondon, Metropolis, Suicide Slum, Superman, Tobias Whale, Tony Isabella

April 21, 2018

Episode 311: M. Evelina Galang!

Episode 311 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 M. Evelina Galang about writing about the insistence of history, collaborating with other voices, being inspired by our elders, and conveying the true flux of language. Books Continue reading

Creative Nonfiction, Episode, History

Lola’s House: Filipino Women Living with War, M. Evelina Galang

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

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

August 6, 2016

Episode 218: Todd James Pierce!

Episode 218 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 historian and creative writer Todd James Pierce, plus Heather Whited reads her essay, “The General.” TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES Check out the Disney History Institute. Check out our latest Continue reading

Disney, Episode, History

November 10, 2014

In Boozo Veritas #67: Lady of the Lakes Ren Faire with the Silvias

In Boozo Veritas #67 by Teege Braune Lady of the Lakes Ren Faire with the Silvias On Friday night as I was finishing my shift at Redlight Redlight I fortuitously ran into Jared and Lesley Silvia who had popped in for a drink. After a couple rounds the conversation took a lively turn. “I can’t Continue reading

History, In Boozo Veritas

September 14, 2013

Episode 66: Kalliope Lee!

Episode 66 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 novelist Kalliope Lee, plus Scott Hoffman talks about John Demos’s The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Until Tuesday, September 17th, Continue reading

Episode, Erotic Literature, History

Creative Writing, Erotic literature, Fiction, History, John Demos, Korea, Novels, Scott Hoffman, Sunday Girl