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Episode 58: Philip Raisor!

22 Monday Jul 2013

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Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, Literature, Memoir, Poetry, Writing Podcast

Episode 58 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 the poet Philip Raisor,

Philip Raisor

Plus Melissa Crandall brings us some Xmas in July!

Melissa Crandall and Holly

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Hoosiers the Poems

Swimming in the Shallow End

Outside Shooter

Tuned and Under Tension

A Christmas Carol

NOTES

J.K. Rowling is Robert Galbraith, the author of The Cuckoo’s Calling.

The Cuckoos Calling

Episode 58 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 56: Chuck Klosterman!

04 Thursday Jul 2013

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Craft of Fiction Writing, Episode, Memoir, Music, Postmodernism, Sports

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Chuck Klosterman, Cinema, Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, David Foster Wallace, John King, Literature, Postmodernism, Sports, stephen king, Writing Podcast

Episode 56 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 the essayist and novelist Chuck Klosterman,

Chuck Klosterman

Plus John McCaffrey discusses Leo Durocher’s Nice Guys Finish Last.

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BOOKS DISCUSSED

I Wear the Black Hat

Downtown owl

Killing Yourself to Live

SexDrugsandCocoaPuffs

Nice Guys Finish Last

NOTES

On July 9th, Mattew Peters will read prose at There Will be Words in Downtown Orlando.

See our kickstarter campaign to travel to Weeki Wachee Springs to interview Lu Vickers about Florida literature and the world famous Weeki Wachee mermaids. We reached our goal on day 1, but we welcome your continued contributions to keep the show going strong!

WeekiWachee

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When I complained that Britney Spears was in Esquire back in the early paleolithic days of 2004, I confess I didn’t dwell sufficiently on what Chuck Klosteman’s article said about her cognitive dissonance, although his words were competing with Britney Spears’s anatomy at the time.

Esquire

On May 14th, 1988, Atlantic Records held a 40th Anniversary Concert during which, in my infallible opinion, and it pained me to say this, Debbie Gibson outplayed Led Zeppelin. Want to disagree? Watch the footage:

Debbie Gibson

Led Zeppelin

For the record, Jason Bonham was drumming, although I don’t this Hindenburg of a performance can be blamed on him.

According to a Times profile, Alice Munro is retiring.

According to The Guardian, Neil Gaiman is writing a new Sandman series.

Episode 56 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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