• Episode #504: Zaina Arafat!

    Episode 504 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 today’s show, I speak with fiction writer Zaina Arafat about love, identity, sarcasm, and their complications for storytelling. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES TDO listeners… Continue reading

  • The Curator of Schlock #384: Schlock

    The Curator of Schlock #384 by Jeff Shuster Schlock Now that’s a movie title! I was stumbling around the town of Mooseville in the Canadian Province of Saskatchewan searching for my lost kangaroo, Edwige. I made my way to the festival in the town square, some kind Canadian Thanksgiving celebration. The whole scene reminded me… Continue reading

  • Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #155: Exploration

    Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #155 by Drew Barth Exploration How often can we link the exploration of the ancient with contemporary modes of entertainment? It’s on this field that we find a new series, Buckhead by Shobo, George Kambadais, and Jim Campbell. Placed at the intersection of archaeology, video games, African mythology,… Continue reading

  • The Perfect Life #30: Rescuing a Clinging Vine

    The Perfect Life #30 by Dr. Perfect Rescuing a Clinging Vine Dear Dr. Perfect, Ever since my cat was hit by a car, my separation anxiety is so bad that I follow my husband everywhere. I don’t want to miss a single moment of our life together; it’s all so fleeting. I know this is… Continue reading

  • Episode 503: 3 Poets on Geography, Intimacy, and Dislocation

    Episode 503 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 today’s show, you’ll hear the “Geography, Intimacy, and Dislocation” poetry panel I moderated this year for Miami Book Fair: The three poets reading… Continue reading

  • The Curator of Schlock #383: A Pistol for Ringo

    The Curator of Schlock #383 by Jeff Shuster A Pistol for Ringo And Ringo was his name-o Larry had just revealed to me that Mooseville (a small town in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan) celebrates Canadian Thanksgiving by eating roast Marsupial, of which the species kangaroo is a member. I tore away from him toward… Continue reading

  • Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #154: Wondrous History

    Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #154 by Drew Barth Wondrous History I have, in the past, talked at length about how DC’s Black Label has been a refreshing take on many of their characters—akin to early 90s Vertigo-before-it-was-called-Vertigo comics. Works like Wonder Woman: Dead Earth by Daniel Warren Johnson and Mike Spicer or… Continue reading

  • The Perfect Life #29

    The Perfect Life #29 by Dr. Perfect Dearest Doctor Perfect, Let me start by admitting my faults: I’m a kleptomaniac and I’m not ashamed. More like . . . inconvenienced. The holiday season is usually my busiest. I like to think of myself as the reverse Santa Clause.  I make a ton of money by… Continue reading

  • Episode 502: David Morgan O’Connor!

    Episode 502 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 today’s show, I talk to the poet David Morgan O’Connor, who was the 2021 fall resident at the Kerouac Project of Orlando. NOTES… Continue reading

  • The Curator of Schlock #382: Texas, Adios

    The Curator of Schlock #382 by Jeff Shuster Texas, Adios Goodbye Texas! Larry and I had dug our way out of a prison in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. We made our way back into the town of Mooseville. I thought we should lay low, but Larry insisted it was okay. The townsfolk would be… Continue reading

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