The Drunken Odyssey

November 26, 2022

Episode 553: Robert Pinsky!

Episode 553 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 Robert Pinsky about his playful, exquisite, earthy, reverence memoir about his relationship to Long Branch and the rest of New Jersey too. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES TDO listeners… Continue reading

Episode, History, Memoir, Poetry

November 23, 2022

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #200: The Story of a Story of a Story

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #200 by Drew Barth The Story of a Story of a Story Oh, hey, two hundred of these articles. Neat-o. Anyway, let’s talk about King Arthur. Or a couple versions of King Arthur. There’s a few when you think about it enough. Where did his sword come from?… Continue reading

Comic Books, Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart

Dan Mora, Ed Dukeshire, Kieron Gillen, Once & Future, Tamra Bonvillain

November 18, 2022

Episode 552: A Celebration of Salman Rushdie and Miami Book Fair!

Episode 552 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 Chelsea Alice about Salman Rushdie’s playful parable from 2020, “The Old Man in the Piazza,” published in The New Yorker, plus I share Salman Rushdie’s 2017 event… Continue reading

Craft of Fiction Writing, Episode

Miami Book Fair, Salman Rushdie, The Golden House, The Old Man in the Piazza

November 18, 2022

The Curator of Schlock #398: Memory

The Curator of Schlock #398 by Jeff Shuster Memory That’s your movie title? You’re not even trying! Where was I? Oh, I was undercover at a bowling alley, trying to buy some fentanyl from a drug-pusher named Gary. “Where’s the money? I don’t have all day.” Gary said as he lifted up a turquoise bowling ball.… Continue reading

Film, The Curator of Schlock

November 16, 2022

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #199: Two Perspectives Here Before You

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #199 by Drew Barth Two Perspectives Here Before You If there’s a medium that can use its visuals to their fullest extent when representing characters, it’s comics. There are only so many ways for film to show a person—but the face doesn’t change much without hours in the… Continue reading

Comic Books, Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart

November 12, 2022

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

Episode, Journalism, Memoir, War

November 9, 2022

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #198: Cat Time

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #198 by Drew Barth Cat Time How much time do we actually have? We sleep, roughly, eight hours and work for an additional nine. But then we have overtime and all the preparations for getting to work and the chores we need to deal with to keep our… Continue reading

Comic Books, Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart

November 5, 2022

Episode 550: Jonathan Ames!

Episode 550 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 former memoirist Jonathan Ames. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES TDO listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link… Continue reading

Craft of Fiction Writing, Creative Nonfiction, Episode, Television

November 5, 2022

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #196: Damned If You Don’t

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #196 by Drew Barth Damned If You Don’t Although the spooky season will soon close, ghosts and demons flow through the pages of comics—even the ones that Fredric Wertham thought would jump out and murder children—a proudly ignominious tradition. Today, we have a new spookier series releasing in Damn… Continue reading

Comic Books, Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart, Horror

October 31, 2022

Episode 549: TDO Loves The Curator of Schlock #14

Episode 548 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, Jeff Shuster and I discuss a wild, strange, deadpan, homicidal roadtrip story that is The Doom Generation. TEXTS DISCUSSED Roger… Continue reading

Episode, Film, satire

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