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Tag Archives: Craft of Writing

Episode 37: Steve Davenport!

18 Monday Feb 2013

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Craft of Fiction Writing, Episode, Literature of Florida, Poetry, Recommendation, Shakespeare

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cormac mccarthy, Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, Fiction, Literary Magazines, Literature, Poetry, Shakespeare, stephen king

Episode 37 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 Steve Davenport,

Steve Davenport

Joe Conley plums Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God,

Joe Conley

Plus I answer some mail…

Texts Discussed:

Overpass

Uncontainable NoiseDavenport Nine Poems and Three Fictions

Child of God

Laurence Sterne and the Visual Imagination

Print

Notes:

Othello

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

Winter with the Writers

Throughout February, Rollins College will be hosting its annual author series, Winter with the Writers.

Episode 37 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 35: Philip F. Deaver!

09 Saturday Feb 2013

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Craft of Fiction Writing, Drinking, Episode, Literary Magazines, Literary Prizes, Literature of Florida

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Burrow Press, Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, Fiction, Literary Magazines, Literature, Poetry, Theatre, Writing Podcast

Episode 35 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 with my friend Philip F. Deaver, who happens to have won a Flannery O’Conner Award,

Philip Deaver and John King 3

plus Helena-Anne Htittel discusses Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner.

Helena-Anne Hittel

Texts Discussed:

silent_retreats

How Men Pray

15Views_small

The Kite Runner

Richard III

Notes

Throughout February, Rollins College will be hosting its annual author series, Winter with the Writers.

Orlando Shakespeare Theatre presents Othello, now through March 16th.  Get the Groupon here.

In other Shakespeare news, Richard III’s remains were found underneath a parking lot. I’m not making this up–it’s in The Times.

Episode 35 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 32: Terry Cronin!

19 Saturday Jan 2013

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Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, Crime Fiction, David Foster Wallace, Fiction, Francesca Lia Block, Miami Book Fair International, Writing Podcast

Episode 32 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 novelist Terry Cronin,

Terry Cronin

And Jean Davis offers one amazing essay about Write is a Verb.

Jean Davis

Texts Discussed

Skinvestigator Part 1: Tramp Stamp

Skinvestigator Part 2: Rash Guard

Skinvestigator Part 3: Sunburn

Students of the Unusual

Write is a Verb

Notes

Susan Lilley will be reading from her new book of poems, Satellite Beach, on Thursday, January 24th, at Rollins College.  For more info, click here.

Show contributor Alise Hamilton (episode 7) discusses bingers and plodders, and the merits of the former as writers, at Bill and Dave’s Cocktail Hour.

A history of the Coppertone sign.

Episode 32 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 31: Grant Ginder!

13 Sunday Jan 2013

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Cinema, Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, David Lipsky, Fiction, Literature, Shakespeare

Episode 31 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 novelist Grant Ginder,

Grant Ginder

Plus Tim J. Myers discusses Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are,

Tim Myers

Texts Discussed

Driver's Education
This is How it Starts
Where The Wild Things Are
This is How You Lose Her
Tom Ameen Solo Piano Moments
Notes

The Drunken Odyssey has its first video posting!  Presenting Martin Amis at Miami Bookfair International (the video version of episode 26).

Martin Amis at Miami Bookfair International 2012 from John King on Vimeo.

David Bowie’s new song, “Where Are We Now?”

Is Barnes and Noble in Trouble?

Episode 31 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 30: Francesca Lia Block!

29 Saturday Dec 2012

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Drinking, Episode, Francesca Lia Block, Music, Poetry, Recommendation

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Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, Francesca Lia Block, Jazz Poetry, Literature, Poetry, Writing Podcast

Episode 30 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 weeks show, I interview the fabulous Francesca Lia Block,

Francesca Lia Block

Plus Lillian-Yvonne Bertram reads her poem, “You Can’t Outdrink The Moon, O Sestina, Sestina Who Has Been Drinking.”

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram

Texts Discussed

The Elementals
But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise
Crazy Clown Time
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
This is How You Lose Her
Notes

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram’s poem ”You Can’t Outdrink The Moon, O Sestina, Sestina Who Has Been Drinking” is a remix of Steve Davenport’s “The Sestina Has Been Drinking,” which is available in his new book, Overpass.

Overpass

On January 6th, Ashley Inguanta will perform her debut collection, The Way Home, with musicians Mandy Burgan and Benoit Glazer, and with dancer Christin Carlow.  Find out more here.

The greatest new trend in libraries.

Matt Taibbi’s Readers’ list of 10 most pretentious moments in history.

James Franco is, umm, a poet. [Guardian] [The New York Times]

Episode 30 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 23: Darin Strauss!

10 Saturday Nov 2012

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Craft of Writing, Darin Strauss, Fiction, Writing Podcast

Episode 23 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 discuss Miami Book Fair International with Lissette Menendez,

then I talk about craft with my teacher and friend, the novelist Darin Strauss,

Plus Sarah Blakeley writes about Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Texts Discussed
 
 
N.B. Sarah Blakeley’s essay was first published in The Language Arts Journal of Michigan.
 
Episode 23 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 22: Jacob M. Appel!

03 Saturday Nov 2012

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Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, Jacob M. Appel, Literary Magazines, Writing Podcast

Episode 22 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 discuss fiction writing with Jacob M. Appel, the recent winner of both the Dundee International Book Prize and the Hudson Prize.

Plus Lisa Martens writes about The Catcher in the Rye.

And I answer some mail, and find myself talking about tequila, really bad tequila.

Texts Discussed:

N.B.: Please sign my petition requesting Disney Online to offer Disney historian Jeff Kurtti (our guest on episode 15) an official blog.

From November 11-18l, Miami Book Fair International Will offer a cornucopia of literary culture.

 Episode 22 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 20: Crossing the Creek with Anna Lillios

20 Saturday Oct 2012

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Craft of Fiction Writing, Episode, Literature of Florida, Recommendation

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Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, Fiction, Lidia Yuknavitch, Literature, The Chronology of Water, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Writing Podcast, Zora Neale Hurston

Episode 20 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 discuss Florida literature with the literary scholar Anna Lillios,

Alison Barker writes about Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Chronology of Water,

And I respond to mail.

Texts Discussed:

On November 1st at 6 P.M., Don Peteroy (Episode 19) will be giving a reading from his new novella, Wally, in room 316 of the University of Central Florida Student Union.

And On Saturday, November 3rd at 7 P.M., he’ll participate in Functionally Literate: A Literary Function, a new reading series organized by Burrow Press and The Kerouac Project, held at Urban ReThink.

N.B.: Please sign my petition requesting Disney Online to offer Disney historian Jeff Kurtti (our guest on episode 15) something like a straightforward, sensible space to blog in.

Episode 20 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 19: Don Peteroy!

13 Saturday Oct 2012

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Burrow Press, Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, Don Peteroy, J.R.R. Tolkien, Literary Magazines, Literature, The Silmarillion, Writing Podcast

Episode 19 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 fiction writer Don Peteroy,

K.C. Wilson discusses J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion,

And I answer mail while listening to The Intoxicators!

Texts Discussed:

For my Central Florida listeners: Go see Lauren Butler, TDO‘s announcer,  in Orlando Shakespeare Theatre’s Studio production of The Exit Interview!  Now playing through October 21.

 
For my Boston listeners: on Thursday, October 18th at 7:00pm, Andover Book Store presents, An Evening of Fiction with JULIANNA BAGGOTT and LAURIE FOOS.
 
For my Central Florida listeners (again): Don Peteroy—who is this week’s guest—will be participating in two events.

On November 1st at 6 P.M., he will be giving a reading from his new novella, Wally, in room 316 of the University of Central Florida Student Union.

And On Saturday, November 3rd at 7 P.M., he’ll participate in Functionally Literate: A Literary Function, a new reading series organized by Burrow Press and The Kerouac Project, held at Urban ReThink.

N.B.: Please sign my petition requesting Disney Online to offer Disney historian Jeff Kurtti (our guest on episode 15) something like a straightforward, sensible space to blog in.

 
 
Check out this fine magazine from this week’s sponsor:
 
My short story “The Stars Are Bouncing Tonight” appeared in issue #20.
 
 
Episode 19 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 16: Chuck Wachtel, Part 1

22 Saturday Sep 2012

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Chuck Wachtel, Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, Fiction, Literature, The Southern Review

Episode 16 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 with the novelist and poet Chuck Wachtel,

Patrick Jehle discusses the book that really changed his life,

and I respond to mail.

Texts Discussed

Check out new poems by Vanessa Blakeslee here.

Episode 16 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

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