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Episode 439: Chuck Palahniuk!

26 Saturday Sep 2020

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Adjustment Day, Chuck Palahniuk, Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life after Which Everything Was Different, Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Stranger Than Fiction, The Invention of Sound

Episode 439 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 this week’s show, I talk to novelist Chuck Palahniuk about The Invention of Sound, Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life after Which Everything Was Different, Adjustment Day, the 18-month rule, how to stay productive, how to keep invested in the work, the genius of Ira Levin, the value of mentors, and how to remix Invisible Monsters.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

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Check out Episode 332, when Vanessa Blakeslee and I discussed Chuck’s Stranger Than Fiction.

Check out my literary adventure novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.


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Episode #399: Rion Amilcar Scott!

28 Saturday Dec 2019

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Episode 399 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, I talk to fiction writer Rion Amilcar Scott about his extraordinary fiction collection, The World Does Not Require You. We discuss the academic world, African-American folklore, religion, music, science fiction, and post-modernism.

Rion and I in the Confucius Institute at Miami Dade College.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

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Check out episode 362, in which Rion Amilcar Scott contributed to an AWP panel on life balance for writers.


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Episode #391: Carmen Maria Machado!

02 Saturday Nov 2019

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Episode 391 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).

Machado, Carmen (Art Streiber AUGUST)

Photo by Art Streiber.

In this week’s episode, I talk with the amazing Carmen Maria Machado about her new experimental memoir, In the Dream House, as well as her masterful debut, Her Body and Other Stories.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

In the Dream HouseHer Body and Other Stories

NOTES

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Episode 382: Rick Moody!

31 Saturday Aug 2019

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Dante, rick moody, Samuel Beckett, The Four Fingers of Death, The Long Accomplishment: A Memoir of Hope and Struggle in Matrimony

Episode 382 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream.

In this week’s episode, I talk with Rick Moody about his new book, The Long Accomplishment: A Memoir of Hope and Struggle in Matrimony.

Rick Moody by Laurel Nakadate

Photo by Laurel Nakadate

TEXTS DISCUSSED

The Long AccomplishmentThe Black VeilThe Four Fingers of DeathBeckett TrilogyBeckett MurphyDream of Fair to Middling Women

NOTES

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Learn more about the Kerouac Project of Orlando here.

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If you are in Orlando on September 7th, come join the Kerouac Project in welcoming its fall 2019 resident, Chelsey Clammer, with a potluck dinner.

Check out my literary adventure novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

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Episode 382 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream.

Episode 334: Ben Gwin & Jared Silvia!

29 Saturday Sep 2018

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Episode 334 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 novelist Ben Gwin about postmodern satire, addiction, whether MFAs ruin or sustain writers, and for some reason I insist that he needs to write poetry,

Ben Gwin 2_photo credit Jared Alan Smith

Photo by Jared Alan Smith.

plus I talk to Jared Silvia about synth music, Woody Guthrie, the vagaries of how folk music gets recorded, and Jared’s annual recording project every Labor Day.

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TEXT DISCUSSED

Clean Time by Ben Gwin


Episode 334 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 317: Michael A. Ferro!

02 Saturday Jun 2018

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Episode 317 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 program, I talk to novelist Michal A. Ferro about the midwest and Postmodernism and alcoholism and other matters of interest.

Michael FERRO for BIO

TEXT DISCUSSED

TITLE 13 Cover w BLURB

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Condoms & Hot Tubs Release Party

If in NYC on June 16th, enjoy Bloomsday at Ulysses Folk House! I wrote a profile about a past year’s event here.

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Episode 317 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 267: A Discussion of Stanley Elkin’s The Magic Kingdom, with Orlando author Nathan Holic!

01 Saturday Jul 2017

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rick moody, Stanley Elkin, The Contemporary Resort, The Magic Kingdom

Episode 267 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Nathan Holic John King Contemporary

Nathan Holic, right, in dire need of another beer at The Outer Rim lounge of The Contemporary Resort.

On this week’s show, I talk to my friend Nathan Holic, who is an Orlando writer and editor of the 15 Views of Orlando anthology series. While in situ at The Contemporary Resort, we discuss the stressors of theme park-going, the uses of such postmodern settings, and the odd counterbalances of melodrama and dark satire in Stanley Elkin’s The Magic Kingdom.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Elkin The Magic Kingdom15 Views of Orlando

NOTES

Contemporary Marry Cottles Room

Mary Cottle’s room? The equivalent of room 822 now, but perhaps not back in 1986. (No, we didn’t knock on the door.)

Check out Nathan’s books!

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  • On June 16th, I am hosting a fundraiser for the S.A.F.E. Words poetry slam at Writer’s Atelier.
  • On July 28th, I am hosting a reading by Jaimal Yogis at the Kerouac House.

All our Waves are Water


Episode 267 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #50: Mystery Science Theater 3000 Episode 1009 [Hamlet] (1999)

09 Sunday Apr 2017

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Rogues Guide to Shakes on Film

50. Mystery Science Theater 3000 Episode 1009 [Franz Peter Wirth’s Hamlet] (1999)

I am going to pause amidst my round of tempesting to honor an old episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, in honor of this show’s return.

The Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode devoted to Franz Peter Wirth’s 1960 German television version of Hamlet is rather dreamlike. The sparse set filmed in black and white is reminiscent of the Olivier version, but feels more like some sort of generic old film reel of Hamlet. That the film is dubbed into English makes it seem otherworldly, like a 1960s kung fu flick (Attack of the Flying Bodkins, perhaps).

Some of the acting and voice-overs seem adequate if not good, which makes the generic nature of this Hamlet seem almost pleasant. (The voice-over for Claudius was performed by Ricardo Montalbán.) The problem is that the title part is played by a young Maximillian Schell. If the name sounds familiar, then think of Dr. Hans Reinhart from The Black Hole.

In Hamlet, Schell looks like an especially manic and greasy incarnation of Klaus Kinski, and my guess is that he was performing the voice-over himself, and the vowels sound like he is chewing on them.

I will confess, though, I really enjoyed Gertrude’s wig in a totally non-ironic way.

Obviously, this Hamlet could not be truly good to serve MST3K’s purposes. The premise of the program is that a janitor of The Gizmonic Institute has been installed in a satellite in outer space and is forced to undergo scientific experiments involving him watching B movies—mostly horror and science fiction. This experimentation has been made tolerable with robot companions, with whom the janitor jokes about said putrid movies in order to make the experience entertaining. On Mystery Science Theater, one watches the janitor and robots watch the movies.

As I have stated in my essay, “Mystery Science Theater 3000, Media Consciousness, and the Postmodern Allegory of the Captive Audience,” published a decade ago in The Journal of Film and Video, I prefer the episodes with Joel (the first janitor to undergo the experiment) to those featuring Mike (the second janitor). As MST3K episodes go, this Hamlet isn’t bad, and if Joel were the experiment subject of this one, there is no reason to expect that the media-conscious criticism would have necessarily been more acute.

One can see this meta-Hamlet as being in a continuum with Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are Dead and Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis’s Strange Brew. Since this is a deeply truncated version of the play to fit the time constraints of MST3K, one disappointment is that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (the two idiots, forced to be observers, rather like the janitor and robots) barely appear. As Claudius is addressing Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Crow asks (as if the voice of Claudius) “which one of you is Squiggy again?”

Some of the jokes are high-minded, and others are delightfully low, kind of like Shakespeare himself. With such a generic Hamlet airing on The Satellite of Love, Shakespeare’s play is rendered doughy and the opposite of sacred, which is, on the whole, a consummation devoutly to be wished.


John King (Episode, well, all of them) holds a PhD in English from Purdue University, and an MFA from New York University. He has reviewed performances for Shakespeare Bulletin.

Episode 233: A Craft Discussion About David Foster Wallace’s “E Unibus Plurim: Television and U.S. Fiction” with Vanessa Blakeslee!

19 Saturday Nov 2016

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David Foster Wallace, E Unibus Plurim: Television and U.S. Fiction., The Review of Contemporary Fiction

Episode 233 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 with Vanessa Blakeslee about David Foster Wallace’s “E Unibus Plurim: Television and U.S. Fiction.”

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TEXTS DISCUSSED

Journal of Contemporary Literature

Read David Foster Wallace’s 1993 essay “E Unibus Plurim: Television and U.S. Fiction” here.


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Episode #208: Mark Leyner!

28 Saturday May 2016

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Episode 208 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 fiction writer Mark Leyner,

Mark Leyne David Plakke Media NYC, 2015

Photo by David Plakke Media.

plus Catherine Carson writes about how Kelly Groome’s I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl changed her life.

Catherine Carson PhotoTEXTS DISCUSSED

Gone with the Mind

The Sugar Frosted Nutsack

Et Tu Babe

Let's Play Doctor

War Inc

I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a GirlNOTES

The music accompanying Catherine Carson’s essay is “Wingspan” by Carlton Melton, from their album “Photos of Photos.”

Check out the music of The Tequila Worms.

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