Episode 245: Tom McAllister!

04 Saturday Feb 2017

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Episode 245 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 novelist and memoirist Tom McAllister about structuring long-form fiction, the mystery of love, the addictive horrors of football, and other important matters.

Tom McAllister

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Bookmark It

Follow Bookmark It on Facebook to learn more about Brave New Book Club, which is led by Vanessa Blakeslee.

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Episode 243: Joy Harjo, Kim Addonizio, and Paul Lisicky!

21 Saturday Jan 2017

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Episode 243 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 poet Joy Harjo,

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the poet and fiction and creative nonfiction writer Kim Addonizio,

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and the memoirist Paul Lisicky.

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TEXTS DISCUSSED

Mortal Trash approved.indd the-narrow-door

NOTES

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On Sunday, February 5th, The Drunken Odyssey will be hosting its annual erotic poetry night at Vinyl Arts Bar in Orlando, Florida. 7 PM.

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Episode 238: Sarah Sweeney!

17 Saturday Dec 2016

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Barrelhouse Books, Mike Ingram, Sarah Sweeney, Tell me If You're Lying

Episode 238 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 essayist Sarah Sweeney about her debut collection, Tell Me If You’re Lying, the impediments and the value the academy can be to writing, and the essential relevance of poetry to the prose arts.

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Read Sarah Sweeney’s essay about cat-fishing musicians here.

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Episode 220: Sam Slaughter!

20 Saturday Aug 2016

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A Brief History of World Travel (Part 8): Notes on Baltimore, Bastard Out of Carolina, Denis Johnson, Dorothy Allison, Florida Man, God in Neon, Jesus' Son, Mark Powell, Orlando, Sam Slaughter, The Bambi Molesters, The Young Widower's Handbook, There Will Be Words, Tom McAllister, When You Cross That Line

Episode 220 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 my friend, fiction writer Sam Slaughter, who I met back in 2014, when he wrote a little something about Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son for the show. We talk about his short story collection, God in Neon, his chapbook, When You Cross That Line (inspired by Florida Man stories), alcoholism, how we evolve as writers, and the Orlando writing scene.

Photo by Oxley Photography 2014

Plus Tom McAllister of Book Fight fame reads his personal essay, “A Brief History of World Travel (Part 8): Notes on Baltimore, MD.”

Tom McAllister

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The Sheltering

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Check out Sam Slaughter’s website.
Hear Sam read his essay about Denis Johnson’s Jesus’s Son back on episode 119.
Or hear Sam read his essay about his misadventures in brewing beer back on episode 126.
Or hear Sam reads his essay about helping himself to some sacramental wine as part of our Repeal Day 2014 show back on episode 129.
Read the text of A Brief History of World Travel (part 8) – Notes on Baltimore, MD, or check out Tom McAllister’s other essays in this series, and his other work, on his website.
Consider pre-ordering Tom McAllister’s forthcoming novel, The Young Widower’s Handbook.

Listen to the music of The Bambi Molesters.

Episode 220 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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Episode 200: Brian Turner!

09 Saturday Apr 2016

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Episode 200 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 poet and memoirist Brian Turner,

Photograph by Kim Buchheit.

plus Heather Whited reads her essay, “Scotland Break Up.”

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TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES

According to The Guardian, some readers were not amused by Calvin Trillan’s “Have They Run Out of Provinces Yet?”.

Episode 200 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 188: J. J. Anselmi!

16 Saturday Jan 2016

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David Bowie, Heavy, Heavy Metal, J.J. Anselmi

Episode 188 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 interview memoir writer J.J. Anselmi,

JJ Anselmi

Plus Patty Hawkins eulogizes David Bowie.

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Check out Drew Perlmutter’s kickstarter campaign for his upcoming documentary, US Highway 98: The Florida I Never Knew. He was my cinematographer for The Drunken Odyssey’s first documentary, The Weeki Wachee Spectacular.

Check out Patty Hawkins at Come Get ∑, or as part of The Geeks Of Comedy. He is also Patrick The Uneducated Critic and a contributing panelist on the MarkWho42WHOniverse.

Patty Hawkin’s recommends Bowie’s Jazzin for Blue Jean.

Episode 188 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 183: Mary Karr!

13 Sunday Dec 2015

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Episode 183 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 interview Mary Karr,

Mary Karr

and share her talk at Miami Book Fair International 2015, plus I share a Miami Bookfair Event I was in, Tiffany Razzano’s Saved by the Sunshine State.

Tiffany Razzano ruling over The Swamp!

NOTES

Check out our latest video on our youtube channel: J.C. Sevcik’s farewell reading at the end of his residency at the Kerouac House.

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Episode 183 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 178: J. C. Sevcik!

07 Saturday Nov 2015

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Episode 178 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 interview memoir writer J. C. Sevcik,

Photo by Drew Perlmutter.

plus Nancy Caronia readers her personal essay, Postmortem.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Read some of J. C. Sevcik’s essays here, here, and here.

To read Nancy Caronia’s Post Mortem, visit Tell Me a Story.

NOTES

Miami Book Fair is coming up: November 15-22.

TDO is now on Instagram.

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Episode 178 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 149: Chelsey Clammer!

24 Friday Apr 2015

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Chelsey Clammer, Chromoluminarism, Susan Brennan

Episode 149 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 memoirist, Chelsey Clammer,

plus Susan Brennan shares her poetry sequence, Chromoluminarism, based on the last days of the pointillist, George Seraut.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

“The Circus” by George Seraut, 1891.

NOTES

If you live in the city beautiful (Orlando, in case you don’t know), come out to see a great show and support a great cause on May 1st.

Check out Jennifer Hoppe-House’s Bad Dog, playing at Orlando Shakespeare Theater through May 3rd.

Ginger Lee McDermott as Molly in Jennifer Hoppe-House’s Bad Dog (Photo by Tony Firriolo).

On May 8th, experience Poetry-O-Rama on the historic Wonder Wheel in Coney Island. Be sure to buy tickets in advance.

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Episode 149 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.