• Episode 515: Sara Manning Peskin!

    Episode 515 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 Sara Manning Peskin about the history of the mysteries and discoveries of medical science. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES… Continue reading

  • Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #166: The Long Violent

    Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #166 by Drew Barth The Long Violent How much do we really inherit from our parents? Right before the plague hit, I took a look at the first issue of Tartarus and how the dual narrative of parent and child influenced how the story presented itself and its… Continue reading

  • Episode 514: Laura Costas!

    Episode 514 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 Laura Costas about the pleasures of disorientation, the surprises of actual history, the complexity of myth, and… Continue reading

  • The Curator of Schlock #373: The Secret of Nimh

    The Curator of Schlock #373 by Jeff Shuster The Secret of NIMH I like cartoons. Stop giving me grief.  We heard the screeching, a sound of hellish death coming from beyond. The factory security guard brandished a taser and I wondered why we hadn’t run away with the rest of the factory personnel that had… Continue reading

  • Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #165: The Longest Step

    Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #165 by Drew Barth The Longest Step In comics, silence is a tool. The lingering moments between characters, the uncluttered panels, the ability to let the art simply be—all of these help the comic to establish a sense of peace or dramatic tension. But silence in comics can… Continue reading

  • Episode 513: Jane-Rebecca Cannarella!

    Episode 513 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 Jane-Rebecca Cannarella about genre bending & blending, illustrating literature, and the dialectics of Disney’s The Little Mermaid.… Continue reading

  • The Curator of Schlock #392: Malignant

    The Curator of Schlock #392 by Jeff Shuster Malignant 8th Wonder of the World There was Edwige, my kangaroo traveling companion of the past year, locked up in a cage, waiting to be butchered by a bunch of zany Saskatchewanians. I wanted to free her, but I had to keep up the ruse of being… Continue reading

  • Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #164: Red Hell

    Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #164 by Drew Barth Red Hell Years ago, Grant Morrison talked about wanting to turn the DC Universe into a living, breathing organism. To what end? Who knows with Morrison. But if we’re going to collectively push for a comic universe as a living thing, we need to… Continue reading

  • The Perfect Life #35

    The Perfect Life #35 by Dr. Perfect Dr. Perfect, What kind of doctor are you? Mine keeps trying to put me on antipsychotic meds, but I don’t want them. I’m looking for a second opinion. Do you take United Healthcare? Yours, Aaron ———— Dear Aaron, I seldom divulge my professional background, but in your case… Continue reading

  • Episode 512: Lan Samantha Chang!

    Episode 512 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 Lan Samantha Chan about writing a novel over a long period of time, learning and teaching at… Continue reading

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