Miami Book Fair
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Aesthetic Drift #33: A Profile of Miami Book Fair 2024
Miami Book Fair arrives once again from November 16-23, culminating in the street fair weekend with hundreds of author readings. What follows is Rachael Tillman’s reportage from last year’s fair. To get to Miami Book Fair, the Brightline carried me through cities and landscapes I’d never seen despite the ten-plus years living in Central Florida. Between Continue reading
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Episode 667: Sally Wen Mao and Susan Mauddi Darraj
Episode 667 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this show, correspondent Samantha Nickerson speaks with Sally Wen Mao about her story collection, Ninetails, plus Samantha speaks with Susan Mauddi Darraj about her new novel, Behind You Is The Sea. TEXTS DISCUSSED Continue reading
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Video: The Rock Bottom Remainders 2024!
Last year’s Miami Book Fair featured a reunion of the writer’s bar band, The Rock Bottom Remainders, featuring a shocking array of writets, including Stephen King, Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson, and Amy Tan, Here is the show. Here is the panel discussion earlier that day. Subscribe to our Youtube channel, if you like this content, Continue reading
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Episode 657: Daniel Handler, Griffin Dunne, and Ridley Pearson!
This week’s show collects three interviews with prose writers Daniel Handler, Griffin Dunne, and Ridley Pearson in joyful, fun conversations conducted last November at Miami Book Fair. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Learn more about Miami Book Fair. If you’d like to support this show with a monthly subscription that will feature bonus content, please see TDO’s Patreon Continue reading
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Episode 654: David Kirby, Traci Brimhall, and Robert Pinsky!
This week’s show collects three interviews with poets David Kirby, Traci Brimhall, and Robert Pinsky in joyful, fun conversations conducted last November at Miami Book Fair. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES For excellent tattoos in the Orlando area, check out The Tattooed Society. Follow artist (and show editor) Jeff Wilfong on IG. If you are an amazon customer, one Continue reading
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Episode 647: Billy Collins
On this week’s show, John King talks to the two-time former poet laureate Billy Collins about his latest collection, Water, Water, and how, if the window doesn’t open up for the composition of poetry, one should strive to find a trampoline in the woods, and how one can learn from the poetic breakers of decorum. Continue reading
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Episode 641: Catching up with Samantha Nickerson
On today’s show, John and Samantha Nickerson catch up and discuss Miami Book Fair, Celebrity Poetry, the comic mask, and the acting careers of James Franco, Jack Nicholson, and Robin Williams in a totally linear conversation. NOTES If you are an amazon customer, one way to support this show is to begin shopping with this affiliate Continue reading
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Episode 517: Kimberly Ann Priest!
Episode 517 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). In this week’s show, I speak with the poet Kimberly Ann Priest about purposeful ambiguity in poetry and the minor disturbing oddities in Hieronymus Continue reading
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Episode 505: Brian Broome!
Episode 505 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, I speak with the memoirist Brian Broome, winner of the 2021 Kirkus Prize for nonfiction. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES TDO listeners can Continue reading
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448: Peniel E. Joseph!
Episode 448 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). Dr. Peniel E. Joseph and I discuss the careers of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcom X, and how examining them together reveals the complexities Continue reading
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