Episode 428: David James Poissant!

11 Saturday Jul 2020

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David James Poissant, Lake Life, The Heaven of Animals

Episode 428 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

David James Poissant

In this week’s show, I talk to my friend David James Poissant about novel-writing, sex scenes, The X-Men, graphic art, focus, and many other things.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Lake Life The Heaven of Animals

This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at Scribophile.

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Check out my literary adventure novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

Episode 363: John King?

20 Saturday Apr 2019

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Beating Windward Press, David James Poissant, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame, John King

Episode 363 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, David James Poissant turns the tables on John King and interviews him about the miraculous release of his epic novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

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Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame Cover

Here is the original Guy Psycho short story.

Episode 363 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 279: Leslie Salas!

23 Saturday Sep 2017

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Craft of Fiction Writing, Creative Nonfiction, Editing, Episode, Flash Fiction

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Bethany Duvall, Burrow Press, David James Poissant, Denver Publishing Institute, leslie salas, Libretto of the Damned, Madison Strake Bernath, Other Orlandos, Ryan Rivas

Episode 279 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 editing and publishing and writing and the post-MFA malaise with Leslie Salas.

Leslie Salas

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Leslie Salas currently blogs for The Gloria Sirens, and is an editor at Sweet.

Episode 279 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 146: A Roundtable Discussion of MFA vs. NYC

04 Saturday Apr 2015

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A WIld Swing of the Knfie, Boris Fishman, Bury Me in My Jersey, David James Poissant, J. Bradley, Joanna Rakoff, MFA vs. NYC, My Salinger Year, Tom McAllister, Vanessa Blakeslee

Episode 146 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 host a roundtable discussion with Vanessa Blakeslee, David James Poissant, and Boris Fishman, in which we critique the essay collection, MFA vs. NYC,

Plus J. Bradley reads a selection from his new prose poem book, A Wild Swing of the Knife.

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Buy It is a Wild Swing of the Knife here.

Patrick Hawkins (Episode 145) and his fellow Geeks of Comedy will be performing at Megacon on April 10th and 11th in Orlando. Check here for more info.

Congrats to Bookmark It on its new digs on the first floor of the East End Market.

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Episode 146 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 100: Mailbag Episode 5 (The Dream Child)

24 Saturday May 2014

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Craft of Fiction Writing, David James Poissant, Episode, Florida Literature

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David James Poissant, Rose Tran

Episode 100 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 Rose Tran shares a memoir piece about her unpleasantly Proustian relationship to Florida weather.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Mary Gordon’s essay Moral Fiction.

Frederick Barthelme’s list of writing tips, 39 Steps.

Darin Strauss’s Notes on Narrative.

Elmore Leonard’s Ten Rules of Writing.

Harlan Ellison’s I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.

On Episode 2, Jaroslav Kalfař and I discussed John Gardner’s The Art of Fiction.

On Episode 6, Jaroslav Kalfař and I discussed Stephen King’s On Writing.

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Amazon is acting so dickish with Hachette that even USA Today is reporting on it.

Episode 100 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 89: David James Poissant!

16 Sunday Mar 2014

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Bill Knott, David James Poissant, High Fidelity, Max Bakke, Nick Hornby, The Heaven of Animals, UCF

Episode 89 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 David James Poissant,

Plus Max Bakke writes about Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Read David James Poissant’s “I Want to be Friends with Republicans” here.

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OST’s William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar can be seen from March 19 – April 20, 2014. Go here for more details.

Anne Hering, Esau Pritchett, Paul Bernardo, from Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s forthcoming production of Julius Caesar.

Episode 89 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 81: Mailbag Episode 4 (A New Hope)

18 Saturday Jan 2014

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Dan Lauer, David James Poissant, John King, Parliament House, Standing Straight, The Mysteries of Pittsburg

Episode 81 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 Dan Lauer writes about “standing straight.”

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According to The Guardian, the short list for the Hatchet Awards has been announced.

The Heaven of Animals, the forthcoming collection from friend-of-the-show David James Poissant, is available for pre-order. Please support the launch of this exquisite collection.

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Episode 81 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 71: Mailbag Episode 3 (The Guermantes Way)

19 Saturday Oct 2013

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in David James Poissant, Drinking, Episode, Erotic Literature

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Dan Lauer, David James Poissant

Episode 71 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 Dan Lauer writes about a unique book that changed his life.

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R.I.P., Oscar Hijuelos.

The Heaven of Animals, the forthcoming collection from friend-of-the-show David James Poissant, is available for pre-order. Please support the launch of his book, which is remarkable fucking reading.

Orlando Shakespeare Theater presents Dracula: The Journal of Jonathan Harker, from October 9 – November 10, 2013.

Episode 71 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 62: Mailbag Episode 2 (Electric Boogaloo)

17 Saturday Aug 2013

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Blog Post, David James Poissant, Drinking, Episode

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Christopher Bolton, Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, David James Poissant, Jared Silvia, Pussy Riot, The Gallery at Avalon Island, Writing Podcast

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.”

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• Think about helping Beating Windward Press fund new art for its Doc Voodoo pulp fiction series. The swag is considerable, like this t-shirt.

• Members of Pussy Riot! are serving time in a Russian jail for the charge of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred.” What they did was perform “Mother of God, Drive Putin Away” in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. While these women are rightly venerated as warriors of free speech, and the phrase “Free Pussy Riot!” is now famous as a movement. What I learned this week, though, is that besides all of that, their music also happens to be fucking wild and should be respected by anyone who has an ear for punk.

Listen to their EP, Kill the Sexist.

Episode 62 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.