Memoir
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Episode 401: Steve Almond and Carolyn Forché!
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… Continue reading
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Episode 397: Tim O’Brien, Chris Ware, and Chip Kidd!
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. The second is with the comic creator Chris Ware… Continue reading
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Episode 382: Rick Moody!
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. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES This episode is sponsored by the excellent… Continue reading
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Episode 379: Katharine Smyth!
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. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES… Continue reading
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Episode 373: Erica Jong!
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… Continue reading
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Episode 368: Mitchell S. Jackson!
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. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES This episode is sponsored by Scribophile.… Continue reading
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Episode 359: Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman!
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. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES TDO will be sharing a table with Black Fox Literary Magazine at AWP… Continue reading
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Episode #342: Linda Buckmaster!
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.… Continue reading
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Episode 334: Ben Gwin & Jared Silvia!
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, plus I talk… Continue reading
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Episode 295: Charles Simic & Richard Blanco!
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, plus I talk to Richard Blanco about the accidents that turn us into… Continue reading
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