Episode 560: A Discussion of Philip Schultz’s Comforts of the Abyss with Rachael Tillman!

21 Saturday Jan 2023

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Episode 560 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, Rachael Tillman and I discuss the art of persona writing through Philip Schultz’s recent book, Comforts of the Abyss.

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Episode 558: Jennifer Worley!

07 Saturday Jan 2023

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This week I speak with the prose writer, Jennifer Worley, the fall 2022 resident of The Kerouac Project of Orlando.

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Episode 556: Lynn Melnick!

24 Saturday Dec 2022

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Episode 556 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).

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The poet and memoirist Lynn Melnick talks with me about the cleverness and heart of Dolly Parton, who can serve as more than a cultural icon as we try to discover how to make our unique ways in the world.

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Episode 553: Robert Pinsky!

26 Saturday Nov 2022

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Episode 553 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 Robert Pinsky about his playful, exquisite, earthy, reverence memoir about his relationship to Long Branch and the rest of New Jersey too.

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Episode #551: Elliot Ackerman!

12 Saturday Nov 2022

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Episode 551 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 the fiction writer and memoirist Elliot Ackerman.

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This episode is released in association with Miami Book Fair.

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Episode 535: A Discussion of Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran, with Rachael Tillman!

06 Saturday Aug 2022

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Episode 535 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, Rachael Tillman and I discuss Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran, a long overdue read for both of us.

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On Saturday, August 13th at 7:30 PM, Rachel Kolman’s farewell reading will take place at the Kerouac Project of Orlando.

Closer to the end of the month, the Orange County Library in downtown Orlando will be holding a literary expo.

Episode 522: Ann Hood!

08 Sunday May 2022

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Episode 522 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 Ann Hood about the challenges of writing nonfiction, the intertwining of feminism and women’s rights and the history of aviation before and after deregulation, the value of non-writing jobs for young writers, and so much more.

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Check out my previous interview with Ann Hood, or my discussion of Ann Hood’s Morningstar with Vanessa Blakeslee.

Episode 522 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 507: Sonya Huber!

22 Saturday Jan 2022

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Episode 507 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).

On today’s show, memoirist Sonya Huber discusses how to write the way that we think, including the semiotic leapfrogs of memory, and trying to depict the precarious balance of reality.

Photo by Francesca Andre.

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The Kerouac Project of Orlando is open for applications for its residency program.

Episode 505: Brian Broome!

08 Saturday Jan 2022

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Episode 505 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).

On today’s show, I speak with the memoirist Brian Broome, winner of the 2021 Kirkus Prize for nonfiction.

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Today’s presentation was done in cooperation with Miami Book Fair.

Here is the official statement from the Association of Writing Programs about Purdue’s beleaguered English Department.

The Kerouac Project of Orlando is open for applications for its residency program.

Episode 484: James Tate Hill!

07 Saturday Aug 2021

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Episode 484 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 show, I interview fiction writer and memoirist, James Tate Hill.

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This Wednesday night at 6 PM EST via zoom, a version of the Whose Line Is It Anyway cast will be performing ‘Whose Governor is DeSantis Anyway?’ to benefit Ron Be Gone, a Super PAC formed to defeat Ron DeSantis in the next election. Greg Proops, Colin Mochrie, and Ryan Stiles will be there, along with Stephanie Murphy and Candidates Charlie Crist and Nikki Fried.
Check out my literary adventure novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.