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Episode 695: Loose Lips December 2025!
Episode 695 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). The Drunken Odyssey commandeered the Loose Lips oratory series during the tidings of yule and whatnot on December 2, 2025. The readers included Fred Lambert, Continue reading
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Aesthetic Drift #32: Room to Talk
When I first envisioned this piece I wanted to call it “J.D. Vance is a Fucking POG.” Because it’s true: J.D. Vance is a fucking POG. But to be fair, most people on this planet could be called POGs. Including myself during this particular point in time (though this wasn’t always the case). So, the brand sort Continue reading
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#601: Stephanie Land!
On today’s show, John talks to best-selling author Stephanie Land about her newest book, Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Check out Miami Book Fair 2023, November 12-19, with the street fair occurring November 18 and 19. If you are an amazon customer, one way to support this show is Continue reading
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Episode 579: A Roundtable Discussion of Jodi Picault’s The Storyteller, with Samantha Nickerson and Chelsea Alice
This week, Samantha Nickerson and Chelsea Alice join me on the mics to discuss a book infamously banned in Florida, Jodi Picault’s novel about the holocaust, The Storyteller. NOTES TDO listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to register for a basic account, go here while still logged in Continue reading
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Aesthetic Drift #30: Bing! Bing, Bing, Bing
Aesthetic Drift #30 by Susan Lilley Bing! Bing, Bing, Bing. Or A robot wrote my English paper and I didn’t even have to pay anything Or Vonnegut’s Vision Vindicated Or Who needs DEI when you have AI? Raceless, faceless, genderless, faithless. On my 12th birthday, someone gave me a paperback of short stories called First Love. I Continue reading
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Episode 501: Sandra M. Gilbert & Susan Gubar!
Episode 501 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, legendary scholars Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar discuss the history of feminism and women’s studies, and the turns of current Continue reading
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The Diaries of a Sozzled Scribbler #25
The Diaries of a Sozzled Scribbler #25 Transcribed by DMETRI KAKMI 15 February 2021 What follows is a phone conversation with my amanuensis, Dolmio Kukurbit, who is a cis-male and therefore lower down the evolutionary scale than us gender non-conforming people. The fact that he’s also one of those old fashioned homos makes it worse. Continue reading
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Episode 426: Scott Hoffman!
Episode 426 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 talk to my friend, the historian Scott Hoffman, about the evolution of Purdue’s Outfest, Chicago Pride, Austin Pride, Queerbomb, Continue reading
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Episode 423: Protests!
Episode 423 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, my intern, Alexander Pate, and I discuss the Salisbury, NC protests that he has participated in, and discuss this point in history. Continue reading
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