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Category Archives: Magic Realism

Episode 395: Karen Best!

30 Saturday Nov 2019

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Episode 395 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 to short story writer Karen Best about magic realism, folklore, fairy tales, the relationships between reader and writer, the psychological darkness of childhood, and other important matters. We name drop H.P. Lovecraft, Henry James, George Eliot, and others.

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This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at Scribophile.

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TDO Listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to register for a basic account, go here while still logged in to upgrade the account with the discount.

Check out my literary adventure novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

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Episode #391: Carmen Maria Machado!

02 Saturday Nov 2019

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Episode 391 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).

Machado, Carmen (Art Streiber AUGUST)

Photo by Art Streiber.

In this week’s episode, I talk with the amazing Carmen Maria Machado about her new experimental memoir, In the Dream House, as well as her masterful debut, Her Body and Other Stories.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

In the Dream HouseHer Body and Other Stories

NOTES

This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at Scribophile.

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TDO Listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to register for a basic account, go here while still logged in to upgrade the account with the discount.

Tom Lucas Sporting a TDO T-shirt

Please check out my Indiegogo campaign to help get me down to Miami for Miami Book Fair International this year. T-shirts will be available.


Episode 391 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).

Episode 381: Deirdre Coyle!

24 Saturday Aug 2019

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Deirdre Coyle, This Mortal Coyle

Episode 381 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or right-click here to download.

In this week’s episode, I talk with the fiction writer and essayist Deirdre Coyle about why fantasy can be more real than realism, the video game experience that happens inside our minds, and the joys of cutting extraneous words from manuscripts.

Deirdre Coyle Farewell Reading

Deirdre Coyle’s farewell reading at the Kerouac Project, August 17, 2019.

Deirdre Coyle Wizard

A witch versus the wizard of Wor. Photo by John King.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Read Deirdre’s wonderful video game blog, This Mortal Coyle, at Unwinnable, or her short stories “Stakes” and “How to Vomit Living Creatures.”

NOTES

This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at Scribophile.

Scribophile

TDO Listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to register for a basic account, go here while still logged in to upgrade the account with the discount.

Learn more about the Kerouac Project of Orlando here.

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If you are in Orlando on September 7th, come join the Kerouac Project in welcoming its fall 2019 resident, Chelsey Clammer, with a potluck dinner.

Check out my alcoholic, literary adventure novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

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RIP, AC for TDO’s Secret HQ.

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Episode 381 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or right-click here to download.

Episode 339: Kimberly Lojewski!

03 Saturday Nov 2018

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Kimberly Lojewski, Worm Fiddling Nocturne in the Key of a Broken Heart

Episode 339 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 fiction writer Kimberly Lojewski!

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Check out my interviews with Tony Hoagland back on episode 40 and 132.


Episode 339 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 70: Tessa Mellas!

10 Thursday Oct 2013

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Lungs Full of Noise, Magic Realism, Tessa Mellas, Todd Sentell

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,

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Plus Todd Sentell writes about Huckleberry Finn, A Good Man is Hard to Find, and the Near Death of Literature.
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TEXTS DISCUSSED

Lungs Full of Noise

A Good Man is Hard to Find

NOTES

Cheryl Strayed’s essay about Alice Munro is available here.

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 his book, which is remarkable fucking reading.

The Heaven of Animals

Orlando Shakespeare Theater presents Dracula: The Journal of Jonathan Harker, from October 9 – November 10, 2013.

The Drunken Odyssey‘s review of this production will appear next week.

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