Episode 136: Walter Mosley and Petra Mason!

26 Monday Jan 2015

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Amiri Baraka, Bettie Page: Queen of Curves, Bunny Yeager, Petra Mason, Rose Gold, Walter Mosley

Episode 136 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 talk to Walter Mosley about crime fiction, characterization, the subconscious work of the writer, and the radical aesthetics of Amiri Baraka,

Photo by David-Burnett.

and I also talk to Petra Mason about Bettie Page, Bunny Yeager, and the legacy of pin up culture.

Photo by Janette Valentine at Terribly Girly.

Plus, Rose Tran reads her personal essay, “Intermission.”

Photo by Jon Findell.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

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For more information about the Terribly Girly studio, check out their website.

In England, the ban on books being sent to prisoners is being lifted, according to The Guardian.

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Episode 136 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 80: Melanie Neale!

11 Saturday Jan 2014

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Amiri Baraka, Andrew Simpson Guthrie, Boat Girl, Hubert Selby, Jr., Melanie Neale, Memoir, Saving Mr. Banks

Episode 80 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 present my interview with the memoirist Melanie Neale,

plus Andrew Simpson Guthrie shares his memoir essay-in-verse, “The Weighty Page.”

TEXTS DISCUSSED

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Check out the Transit Interpretation Project here, or read Ryan Rivas’s essay, “Rider’s Block,” here.

Amiri Baraka, author of Dutchman, dies at 79.

Read Kip Robisch‘s “Fun Dads, Loss, and ‘Saving Mr. Banks.'”

The Heaven of Animals, the forthcoming collection from friend-of-the-show David James Poissant (my co-host of the mailbag episodes), is available for pre-order. Please support the launch of this stellar story collection.

Episode 80 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.