Creative Writing
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Heroes Never Rust #89: Dream Sequences
Heroes Never Rust #89 by Sean Ironman Watchmen: Dream Sequences When I took Introduction to Creative Writing as an undergraduate student, I was given a list of things that I could not use in my writing. I was told that my stories would be stronger if I did not include certain things, at least as… Continue reading
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Episode 133: John Waters!
Episode 133 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 share another Miami BookFair International interview, this one with writer and filmmaker John Waters. TEXTS DISCUSSED Check out the voice of one of the dog show officials in this… Continue reading
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Episode 111: Iris Jamahl Dunkle!
Episode 111 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 Trio Award-winner Iris Jamahl Dunkle, plus Jeffrey Ethan Lee reads his essay, “The Poet’s Mother’s Deathbed Conversion” at Fergie’s Pub in Philadelphia. Books Discussed NOTES If in… Continue reading
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Episode 87: Vanessa Blakeslee!
Episode 87 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 fiction writer Vanessa Blakeslee, And Anthony Seidman writes about James Thompson’s The City of Dreadful Night. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES If you live in NYC, check out this wonderful… Continue reading
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Episode 85: Erotic Poetry Night 2
Episode 85 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. This week, I present our first live show of the year, from our night of Erotic Poetry, as either a prelude or an antidote to Valentine’s Day, according to taste. NOTES The Heaven of… Continue reading
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Episode 66: Kalliope Lee!
Episode 66 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 novelist Kalliope Lee, plus Scott Hoffman talks about John Demos’s The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Until Tuesday, September 17th,… Continue reading
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Episode 62: Mailbag Episode 2 (Electric Boogaloo)
Episode 62 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 answer some mail with my friend, David James Poissant, Plus Jared Silvia reads his amazing new essay, “City of Ghosts.” TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES • Think about… Continue reading
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Episode 61: Chad Benson, or Quinn W. Shagbark!
Episode 61 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. This week, I interview my friend, the fiction writer Chad Benson, who also happens to be a rock musician called Quinn W. Shagbark, plus Jesse Duthrie talks about John Barth’s The Floating Opera. TEXTS DISCUSSED… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #1: Mastering the Dinner Party, Dialogue, and First Person Narrators
Buzzed Books #1 by Alise Hamilton Mastering the Dinner Party, Dialogue, and First Person Narrators Recommendation: Bobcat And Other Stories by Rebecca Lee Bobcat is a collection of seven short stories so rich and expansive they leave the reader walks away feeling she has read seven novels. Rebecca Lee manages to fit an amazing scope in… Continue reading
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Episode 60: Gilbert King!
Episode 60 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. This week, I interview the Pulitzer Prize-winning non-fiction writer Gilbert King, Plus Monty Joynes discusses coming across Talks and Dialogues by J. Krishnamurti TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES On Tuesday, August 13th, at Urban ReThink in downtown… Continue reading
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