Memoir
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#586: Sarah Viren!

This week, I speak with Sarah Viren about memoir, the social structures of academic work, philosophy, and asking serious questions. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES If you are an amazon customer, one way to support this show is to begin shopping with this affiliate link, so that the podcast is granted a small commission on anything you purchase Continue reading
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Episode 560: A Discussion of Philip Schultz’s Comforts of the Abyss with Rachael Tillman!
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. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES TDO Continue reading
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Episode 558: Jennifer Worley!
Episode 558 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 speak with the prose writer, Jennifer Worley, the fall 2022 resident of The Kerouac Project of Orlando. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES TDO Continue reading
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Episode 556: Lynn Melnick!
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). _______ The poet and memoirist Lynn Melnick talks with me about the cleverness and heart of Dolly Parton, who can serve as more than a Continue reading
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Episode 553: Robert Pinsky!
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. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES TDO listeners Continue reading
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Episode #551: Elliot Ackerman!
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. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES TDO listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to Continue reading
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Episode 535: A Discussion of Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran, with Rachael Tillman!
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. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES TDO Continue reading
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Episode 522: Ann Hood!
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 Continue reading
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Episode 507: Sonya Huber!
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 Continue reading
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