Memoir
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Episode 183: Mary Karr!
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, 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.… Continue reading
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Episode 178: J. C. Sevcik!
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, 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… Continue reading
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Episode 149: Chelsey Clammer!
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 NOTES If you live… Continue reading
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Episode 140: Marya Hornbacher!
Episode 140 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 and novelist Marya Honrbacher, plus J.J. Anselmi reads his personal essay, “Atrophy,” and I offer a tribute to the late Philip Levine. TEXTS DISCUSSED Read Marya… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #74: Knowing Yourself
Heroes Never Rust #74 by Sean Ironman Knowing Yourself Ms. Marvel finishes out its first story arc with the fifth issue. Kamala Khan finally gains confidence and control over her superpowers and no longer shifts her body to look like Carol Danvers. She becomes her own superhero and storms back into the villain’s lair and… Continue reading
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Episode 132: Joanna Rakoff and Tony Hoagland!
Episode 132 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 novelist and memoirsit Joanna Rakoff, and then talk once again with the poet Tony Hoagland, plus Brittany McIntyre writes bravely about how a book I never expected to… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #73: Adjusting to the Story’s Needs
Heroes Never Rust #73 by Sean Ironman Adjusting to the Story’s Needs In a graduate-level fiction workshop a couple of years ago, a student used footnotes in a few places in a manuscript. The story was somewhere around fifteen pages, and footnotes were used three or four times, mostly toward the beginning of the piece.… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #16: Mo’ Meta Blues
Buzzed Books #16 by John King Mo’ Meta Blues by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson Memoir can be straightforward, once memoirists reveal their particular working premises, so as not to be seen as James Freying their mendacious way to the bank. Autobiographies, however, are fraught with more philosophical problems than memoir. When David Sedaris writes a book… Continue reading
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Episode 105: Alden Jones!
Episode 105 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 fiction writer and memoirist-extraordinaire Alden Jones, plus Peter Demarco writes about discovering Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES According to The Guardian, Salman Rushdie has won the… Continue reading
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