David Foster Wallace
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Episode 233: A Craft Discussion About David Foster Wallace’s “E Unibus Plurim: Television and U.S. Fiction” with Vanessa Blakeslee!
Episode 233 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 with Vanessa Blakeslee about David Foster Wallace’s “E Unibus Plurim: Television and U.S. Fiction.” TEXTS DISCUSSED Read David Foster Wallace’s 1993 essay “E Unibus Plurim: Television and U.S. Fiction” here. Episode… Continue reading
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Episode 193: Mary Gaitskill!
Episode 193 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I interview fiction writer Mary Gaitskill, and share her reading from Miami Book Fair International, plus Beverly Army Williams and I discuss Mary Gaitskill’s new novel, The Mare. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES… Continue reading
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Episode 174: Vanessa Blakeslee!
Episode 174 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 interview my occasional co-host Vanessa Blakeslee about her new novel, Juventud, plus James Stewart III writes about how reading David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest changed his life. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Come… Continue reading
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Episode 135: A Craft Discussion About James Wood’s How Fiction Works, with Vanessa Blakeslee!
Episode 135 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 about James Wood’s How Fiction Works with Vanessa Blakeslee, Plus Amy Penne writes about how David Foster Wallace’s Consider the Lobster and Other Essays changed her life. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES On Tuesday,… Continue reading
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Episode 56: Chuck Klosterman!
Episode 56 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 essayist and novelist Chuck Klosterman, Plus John McCaffrey discusses Leo Durocher’s Nice Guys Finish Last. BOOKS DISCUSSED NOTES On July 9th, Mattew Peters will read prose… Continue reading
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Episode 40: Tony Hoagland!
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, Plus Bob Lamb Explains How Ernest Hemingway saved him from Rendition. Texts Discussed Show Notes This episode begins with a limerick written… Continue reading
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Episode 32: Terry Cronin!
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, And Jean Davis offers one amazing essay about Write is a Verb. Texts Discussed Notes Susan Lilley will be reading from her… Continue reading
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Episode 14: Susan Hubbard Interview
Episode 14 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. _______________________________________ On episode 14, I talk to the novelist Susan Hubbard, Nate Rankin discusses David Foster Wallace, and I answer mail. _______________________________________ Texts Discussed _______________________________________ Here is a link to Susan Hubbard’s Reading on September 8th.… Continue reading
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