Episode 401: Steve Almond and Carolyn Forché!

11 Saturday Jan 2020

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Episode 401 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.)

This week, I offer another round of conversations from Miami Book Fair International, in which I talk to Steve Almond about his favorite novel, Stoner by John Williams,

Steve Almond

plus I speak with poet Carolyn Forché about her memoir, All You Have Heard is True.

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TEXTS DICSUSSED

Stoner

What You Have Heard is True

NOTES

This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at Scribophile.

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

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Episode 397: Tim O'Brien, Chris Ware, and Chip Kidd!

14 Saturday Dec 2019

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Episode 397 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

On today’s show, I share two interviews. The first is with the fiction writer and memoirist Tim O’Brien about how to live in this world.

I hope I said something funny here. We did laugh a bit.

The second is with the comic creator Chris Ware and his editor at Pantheon Books, Chip Kidd, with whom we discussed how design meshes with the content of a story.

Chris Ware, your humble host, and Chip Kidd.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at 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.

Episode 382: Rick Moody!

31 Saturday Aug 2019

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Episode 382 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream.

In this week’s episode, I talk with Rick Moody about his new book, The Long Accomplishment: A Memoir of Hope and Struggle in Matrimony.

Photo by Laurel Nakadate

TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at 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.

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

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Episode 382 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream.

Episode 379: Katharine Smyth!

10 Saturday Aug 2019

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Episode 379 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 memoirist Katharine Smyth about how literature fills our lives, and is there for us in peculiarly reassuring ways when we lose everything.

Photo by Frances F. Denny.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at 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.

RIP, Toni Morrison.

Episode 379 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 373: Erica Jong!

29 Saturday Jun 2019

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Episode 373 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 show, I talk with the great Erica Jong about writing in one’s voice, being in love with language, the discipline of literature, revision, 18th century fiction, living healthy, and sonnets and other poetry,

Erica Jong

plus Vanessa Blakeslee and I discuss Erica Jong’s book on writing, Seducing the Demon: Writing for my Life.

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TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

This episode is sponsored by 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.

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

Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame Cover

Episode 373 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 368: Mitchell S. Jackson!

26 Sunday May 2019

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Episode 368 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 Mitchell S. Jackson about finding joy in voice while dwelling on painful material in a memoir and novel.

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Mitchell S. Jackson by John Ricard.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

$Survival Math$

NOTES

This episode is sponsored by 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.

Episode 368 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 359: Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman!

23 Saturday Mar 2019

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Episode 359 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 Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman about classical music, social class, memoir, and authenticity.

Photo by Vanessa Borer.

TEXT DISCUSSED

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NOTES

TDO will be sharing a table with Black Fox Literary Magazine at AWP at table T14104, plus I am moderating a panel on life-balance, which I clearly know nothing about.

AWP Panel Also, my novel has a release date of April 16, 2019.

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Episode 359 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode #342: Linda Buckmaster!

24 Saturday Nov 2018

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Episode 342 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 poet and memoirist Linda Buckmaster about how our subjects sometimes choose us, the wondrous weirdness of Florida, and how the find form in the flux of composition.

Linda Buckmaster

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Episode 342 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 334: Ben Gwin & Jared Silvia!

29 Saturday Sep 2018

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Episode 334 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 novelist Ben Gwin about postmodern satire, addiction, whether MFAs ruin or sustain writers, and for some reason I insist that he needs to write poetry,

Ben Gwin 2_photo credit Jared Alan Smith

Photo by Jared Alan Smith.

plus I talk to Jared Silvia about synth music, Woody Guthrie, the vagaries of how folk music gets recorded, and Jared’s annual recording project every Labor Day.

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Episode 334 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 295: Charles Simic & Richard Blanco!

06 Saturday Jan 2018

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Episode 295 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, I talk to Charles Simic about James Tate, Kansas surrealism, humor in poetry, and embracing the unconscious,

Photo by Richard Drew.

plus I talk to Richard Blanco about the accidents that turn us into artists, the grind of editing, and the joys of finding new forms and challenges.

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TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

Be sure to check out the music of David Rego, whose songs “Rings Ring” and “Sapphire Showers” appear on this episode.

Dave Rego

Episode 295 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.