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 233 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
Episode 201 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 present my lecture, Postmodernism for Creative Writers.
Episode 201 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
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
Check out Beverly Army Williams’s site, Mothershould.
The music used in this show was by Michael Hearst. “Alprazolam” (Songs for Fearful Flyers) and “Nicht Lustig Fight” (Film Music and Other Scores, Vol. 1) appeared in the opening, and “Theme From Magic Camp” (Film Music and Other Scores, Vol. 1) at the close.
Greg Thornton (Prospero) & Lisa Wolpe (Antonia) in OST’s The Tempest. (Photo by Luke Evans.)
Episode 193 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
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,
Photo by Ashley Inguanta.
plus James Stewart III writes about how reading David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest changed his life.
TEXTS DISCUSSED
NOTES
Come see Vanessa on book tour, including her upcoming appearance on October 18th in the Sunday Salon series with Orlando Ferrand, Anu Jindal, and Asali Solomon. The reading starts at 7 P.M. at Jimmy’s #43 at 43 E 7th Street, NY, NY.
Episode 174 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
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, January 20th, 7 P.M., Leslie Salas will lead a workshop on imagery at the Orlando Public Library, Herndon Branch.
On Saturday, January 24th, 11 A.M., J. Bradley will host a love poem workshop at the Orlando Public Library.
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Episode 135 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
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 at There Will be Words in Downtown Orlando.
See our kickstarter campaign to travel to Weeki Wachee Springs to interview Lu Vickers about Florida literature and the world famous Weeki Wachee mermaids. We reached our goal on day 1, but we welcome your continued contributions to keep the show going strong!
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When I complained that Britney Spears was in Esquire back in the early paleolithic days of 2004, I confess I didn’t dwell sufficiently on what Chuck Klosteman’s article said about her cognitive dissonance, although his words were competing with Britney Spears’s anatomy at the time.
On May 14th, 1988, Atlantic Records held a 40th Anniversary Concert during which, in my infallible opinion, and it pained me to say this, Debbie Gibson outplayed Led Zeppelin. Want to disagree? Watch the footage:
Debbie Gibson
Led Zeppelin
For the record, Jason Bonham was drumming, although I don’t this Hindenburg of a performance can be blamed on him.
According to a Times profile, Alice Munro is retiring.
According to The Guardian, Neil Gaiman is writing a new Sandman series.
Episode 56 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
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 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.
Saturday (March 16th) is also the last day to see this season’s superb Othello at Orlando Shakespeare Theatre.
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 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 new book of poems, Satellite Beach, on Thursday, January 24th, at Rollins College. For more info, click here.
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 14 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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On episode 14, I talk to the novelist Susan Hubbard,
Nate Rankin discusses David Foster Wallace,
and I answer mail.
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Texts Discussed
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Here is a link to Susan Hubbard’s Reading on September 8th.
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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.
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