War
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Episode #551: Elliot Ackerman!
Episode 551 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 the fiction writer and memoirist Elliot Ackerman. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES TDO listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to… Continue reading
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Episode 446: Phil Klay!
Episode 446 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, fiction writer and veteran Phil Klay and I discuss finding the right form for a novel, war literature, and winning the… Continue reading
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Episode 397: Tim O’Brien, Chris Ware, and Chip Kidd!
Episode 397 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On today’s show, I share two interviews. The first is with the fiction writer and memoirist Tim O’Brien about how to live in this world. The second is with the comic creator Chris Ware… Continue reading
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Episode 351: Elliot Ackerman!
Episode 351of 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 speak with the war veteran, journalist, and novelist Elliot Ackerman about composition and revision strategies, and the emotional access points from our own experience to the stories we tell. TEXTS DISCUSSED… Continue reading
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Episode 330: Kurt Vonnegut Roundtable!
Episode 330 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 am joined by Chris Lafave, Erik Deckers, and David James Poissant for a discussion of Kurt Vonnegut. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES When in Indianapolis, visit the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library.… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #187: First Blood
The Curator of Schlock #187 by Jeff Shuster First Blood They’re not hunting him. He’s hunting them! Sorry if I freaked out a bit last week. Maybe it’s my delicate sensibilities, but a movie where a ten-year-old boy gets shot and killed because of the decision of some old guys in a board room meeting… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #77: “Down” Time
Heroes Never Rust #77 by Sean Ironman “Down” Time The war in Europe winds down. Germans surrender. U.S. soldiers wait on the decision of whether they are heading home or heading to the war in the Pacific. Sergeant Brewer should be happy. He survived. As a soldier in the Hundred and First Airborne Division, he… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #76: Dodgin’ D-Day
Heroes Never Rust #76 by Sean Ironman Dodgin’ D-Day Garth Ennis’s and John Higgins’s War Story: D-Day Dodgers follows Second Lieutenant Ross, a British soldier joining up with B Company in Italy. The Western Front has begun with Normandy and the Allied Forces are gaining ground in France. The Russians are driving Germans back to… Continue reading
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