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Episode 277: Jaimal Yogis!
Episode 277 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 show, I have a fun conversation with the journalist, surfer, and Buddhist Jaimal Yogis about the provisionality of our knowledge, philosophy, zen, surfing, writing, avoiding preciousness, and the lunacy of the… Continue reading
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Episode 274: Litlando Memoir Panel with Lisa Roney & Kristen Arnett
Episode 274 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. NOTES Consider donating to The Drunken Odyssey’s indiegogo fundraiser here. Learn more about the nonprofit Page 15 here. Follow Kristen Arnett on twitter here, or check out her website. Check out The Florida Review here. Go… Continue reading
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Episode 272: Henry Hughes!
Episode 272 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 show, I talk to the poet and memoirist Henry Hughes about how to get over rejection, poetry, the freedom of ekphrastic work, memoirs, and fishing, Plus Todd Boss reads his poem,… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books # 53: Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History
Buzzed Books # 53 by Amy Watkins Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History Near the end of my MFA, a new writer friend asked the topic of my critical thesis. I launched into a long and not particularly coherent description of the 20 or so ideas–all inextricably related in my mind–that… Continue reading
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Episode 245: Tom McAllister!
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. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Follow Bookmark It on Facebook to… Continue reading
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Episode 243: Joy Harjo, Kim Addonizio, and Paul Lisicky!
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, the poet and fiction and creative nonfiction writer Kim Addonizio, and the memoirist Paul Lisicky. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES On Sunday, February 5th, The Drunken Odyssey will be… Continue reading
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Episode 220: Sam Slaughter!
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… Continue reading
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 200: Brian Turner!
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, plus Heather Whited reads her essay, “Scotland Break Up.” TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES According to The Guardian, some readers were not amused by Calvin Trillan’s “Have… Continue reading
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