Category Archives: Miami Book Fair

Episode 130: Jaquira Díaz!

14 Sunday Dec 2014

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Episode 130 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 author and editor Jaquira Díaz.

Jaquira Díaz

TEXTS DISCUSSED

15 Views of MiamiRead Jaquira Díaz’s “Cami” at Story South.

Read Jocelyn Bartkevicius’s “Out of the Garden” at The Missouri Review.

To hear more of and about 15 Views of Miami, check out this episode of Functionally Literate Radio.

Things Fall ApartDrownNOTES

Pre-order Nathan Holic’s new novel, The Things I Don’t See, here for only $6.

The Things I Don't See _______

Episode 130 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

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Episode 78: Edwidge Danticat and Koren Zailckas!

28 Saturday Dec 2013

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Episode 78 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 present my interview with Edwidge Danticat,

Edwidge Danticat

and my interview with Koren Zailckas,

Koren Zailckas

Photo by Tammy Taylor.

plus Samantha Stemler writes about Neil McKenna’s The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde.

Samantha Stemler

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Claire of the Sea Light

Mother Mother

Fury

Smashed

The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde

NOTES

The Drunken Odyssey now has a youtube channel.

Here is my video of Edwidge Danticat’s event at Miami Book Fair International:

According to the Kids’ Right to Read Project, 2013 has been a record year for attempts to ban books in libraries in schools. The Diary of Anne Frank, you know, is too pornographic for American children to be exposed to. This was reported in The Guardian.

The Heaven of Animals, the forthcoming collection from friend-of-the-show David James Poissant, is available for pre-order. Please support the launch of his book, which is wonderful reading.

The Heaven of Animals

Episode 78 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.