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Episode 50: David Sedaris

25 Saturday May 2013

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Episode 50 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 talk to the memoir writer David Sedaris,

David Sedaris

plus Pamela Skjolsvik discusses David Sedaris’s Me Talk Pretty One Day,

Pamela Skjolsvik
and Adriana Lecuona writes about Ursula K. Le Guin’s “Those Who Leave Omelas.”
Adriana Lecuona

Texts Discussed

Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk

Me Talk Pretty One Day

The Unreal and the Real Volume 2

Notes

Sedaris autograph

David’s inscription in my copy of Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim.

One of Ian Falconer's illustrations from Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk.

One of Ian Falconer’s illustrations from Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk.

Episode 50 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 49: Monica Wendel (Redux)!

18 Saturday May 2013

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Episode 49 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

On this week’s show, I interview my friend, the poet Monica Wendel, who is in residency at The Kerouac House,

Monica on Jack's steps

Photo by Ashley Inguanta

plus Chelsey Clammer writes about Marya Hornbacher’s Madness.

Chelsey Clammer

Texts Discussed

The Dharma Bums

On the Road

No Apocalypse

Madness

Notes

Two great Orlando events are coming up this week:

1. On Wednesday, May 22, 7 PM, the fiction writer Colin Winnette will be reading in the sOFT eXPOSURE reading series.  Get details here.

2. On Saturday, May 25th, please come to Monica’s farewell reading at The Kerouac House.  Get details here.

See the Glossary’s Film of David Foster Wallace’s This is Water:

Episode 49 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 48: Dylan Landis!

11 Saturday May 2013

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Episode 48 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

On this week’s show, I interview the fiction writer Dylan Landis

Dylan Landis

plus the poet Eleanor Lerman writes about Leonard Cohen’s Spice Box of Earth.

Eleanor Lerman

Texts Discussed

Normal People Dont Live Like This

the_spice_box_of_earth_front

Notes

Harper Lee is suing her former literary agent, according to an NPR story.

If you live in Central Florida, come to the next event in Jared Sylvia’s Functionally Literate series, despite the fact that I am reading there.

Functionally Literate

 Episode 48 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 45: Richard Peabody!

19 Friday Apr 2013

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Episode 45 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

This week, I talk to Richard Peabody, the editor of Gargoyle Magazine,

Richard Peabody

Plus Kirsten Holt reads a beautiful elegy.

Kirtsen Holt

Texts Discussed

Last of the Red Hot Magnetos

Gargoyle 58 cover

great gatsby

On the Road
Daisy Buchanon's Daughter
Devil in the Grove
Notes

The music for Last Call was “Night Flight” by the band Carlton Melton.

Country Ways

The 2013 Pulitzer Prize Winners.

TheDrunkenodyssey1

 Episode 45 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 43: Lillian-Yvonne Bertram

06 Saturday Apr 2013

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Episode 43 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

This week, I talk to the poet Lillian-Yvonne Bertram,

Lillian Yvonne Bertram

Plus James Best discusses Gatsby.

James Best

Texts Discussed

Carlton Melton’s Photos of Photos.

Photos Of Photos

Notes

Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s Titus Andronicus runs through April 28.

titus andronicus

Music for this week’s essay provided by Carlton Melton.

Daybreak

Princess Parizade

TheDrunkenodyssey1

Grrr: Amazon buys Goodreads.com.

The Tequila Worms have generously offered their album Cantina as a free download.

 Episode 43 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 42: Stephen Elliott, Isaac Fitzgerald, & The Rumpus!

29 Friday Mar 2013

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Episode 42 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

This week, I talk to Stephen Elliott and Isaac Fitzgerald of

Stephen Elliot/Isaac Fitzgerald

plus Astrid Cook writes about Stephen King’s The Stand.

Astrid Cook

Texts Discussed

Happy Baby

The Adderall Diaries

About Cherry

Isaac Fitzgerald’s Why I Agreed to be a Bend-over Boyfriend.

The Stand

Things Fall Apart

Notes

Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s Titus Andronicus runs through April 28.

titus andronicus

Music for this week’s essay provided by Zelda Re-orchestrated.

Chinua Achebe, Literary Titan, dies at 82.

Episode 42 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 41: Emily Brandt!

23 Saturday Mar 2013

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Episode 41 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

On this week’s show, I talk to the poet and teacher Emily Brandt,

Emily Brandt

Plus Denise Falcone talks about Nabokov’s Ada.

Denise 1

Texts Discussed

The Inside Colocation blog.

Florida’s Blue Ribbon Panel on Higher Education Reform is wrong.

Ada

I love the ad-free dictionary aggregator, wordnik.

The New Yorker Rejects Itself.

Episode 41 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 40: Tony Hoagland!

15 Friday Mar 2013

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Episode 40 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

On this week’s show, I talk to the poet Tony Hoagland,

Tony Hoagland

Plus Bob Lamb Explains How Ernest Hemingway saved him from Rendition.

Bob Lamb

Texts Discussed

Sweet Ruin

Donkey Gospel

What Narcissism Means to MeReal Sofistikashun

Unicorproated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty

Stupid HopeArt Matters Hemingway

Complete Stories of Hemingway

Show Notes

This episode begins with a limerick written and read by Chris Booth, in honor of our pal Steve Kelly:

Just a few, and Steve’s eyes ‘gan to wander;
Then day next he was mute and a-ponder:
When he saw where he woke,
In sad tones, thus he spoke:
“It’s Absinthe makes the heart to grow fonder.”

Tonight, Saturday, and Sunday are the last days in Orlando to see Charlie Bethel’s awesome performance of The Odyssey.

Charlie Bethel's Odyssey
Saturday (March 16th) is also the last day to see this season’s superb Othello at Orlando Shakespeare Theatre.

Othello

Episode 40 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 39: Rick Moody!

06 Wednesday Mar 2013

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Episode 39 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

On this week’s show, I talk to Rick Moody,

Rick Moody

James Best explains why he isn’t afraid of sharks,

James Best

Plus I talk to the playwright and actor Charlie Bethel about his current one man show of The Odyssey.

Charlie Bethel's Odyssey

Texts Discussed

On Celestial Music

The Four Fingers of Death

DemonologyThe Ring of Brightest Angels

Notes

The Drunken Odyssey will be making a pub crawl in Boston this Friday.

AWP Conference

Episode 39 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 38: Matthew Pitt!

02 Saturday Mar 2013

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Episode 38 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

On this week’s show, I talk to the fiction writer Matthew Pitt,

Matthew Pitt

plus Pamela Skjolsvik discusses David Sedaris’s Me Talk Pretty One Day.

Pamela Skjolsvik

Texts Discussed

Attention Please Now

Me Talk Pretty One Day

great gatsby

Ishmael Reed’s WSJ blog about Django Unchained.

Kirtsen Holt’s new poem, Taxonomy.

Notes:Othello

Orlando Shakespeare Theatre presents Othello, now through March 16th.

Episode 38 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.