Episode 235: There Will Be Words and/or Doom!

03 Saturday Dec 2016

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Election Day, Glendaliz Camacho, J. Bradley, Rachel Kolman, Richard Nixon, There Will Be Words, Whitney Hamrick

Episode 235 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 an Election Day version Jesse Bradley’s prose reading series, There Will Be Words, or in this case, There Will Be Words and/or Doom. The readers included myself

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Rachel Kolman,

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Glendaliz Camacho,

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And Whitney Hamrick.

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Thanks once again to our host, J. Bradley.

Flash Fiction Spooktacular Jesse Bradley

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Episode 229: The 6th Annual Flash Fiction Spooktacular!

22 Saturday Oct 2016

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Adam Johnson, Erik Deckers, J. Bradley, Jared Silvia, Karen Best, Shawn McKee, Teege Braune, There Will Be Words

Episode 229 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 return to Jesse Bradley’s Halloween installment of his prose reading series, There Will Be Words.

Jesse Bradley, Karen Best, Shawn McKee, Teege Braune, John King, & Jared Silvia.

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Plus a final performance from The Terrible Mr. Sundrop.

Mr Sundrop

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Episode 221: There Will Be Fan Fiction 2 (The Revenge)

27 Saturday Aug 2016

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A.C. Warner, Aura, Batman, Brontë Bettencourt, Fatal Attraction, Flash Gordon, Frozen, J. Bradley, Jason Todd, John King, Litlando, Ming the Merciless, Shauna Basques, The Mighty Ducks, There Will Be Fan Fiction, There Will Be Words

Episode 221 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 There Will Be Fan Fiction 2, a special edition of Jesse Bradley’s prose reading series, There Will Be Words.

This installment features the fan fiction of Shauna Basques (Jason Todd-era Batman), J. Bradley himself (The Mighty Ducks/Fatal Attraction crossover, obviously), Brontë Bettencourt (Frozen), A. C. Warner (Star Trek: The Next Generation, as read by me), and me (Flash Gordon).

NOTES

Check out the first installment of There Will Be Fan Fiction, which featured Teege Braun writing Small Wonder, Jared Silvia writing King of the Hill, Stephanie Rizzo writing about a post-apocalyptic Lewis and Clarke, Genevieve Anna Tyrrell writing Dexter, and me, that is John King, writing a Benny Hill Show/Ace Frehley crossover that includes David Foster Wallace, Yoda, My Little Pony, and a hint of Cthulu.

Also check out J. Bradley’s latest book, Jesus Christ, Boy Detective, and here us talk about it back on episode 216.

Check out Brontë Bettencourt’s blog, 21st Century Brontë.

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Episode 206: The Best of There Will Be Words

14 Saturday May 2016

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J. Bradley, Jared Silvia, Karen Price, Litlando, The Gallery at Avalon Island, There Will Be Words, Tom Lucas

Episode 206 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 a recording of latest Best Of show in Jesse Bradley’s prose reading series, There Will Be Words, in which I was a reader, along with Tom Lucas, Jared Silvia, and Karen Price.

J. Bradley. Photo by John King.

John King. Tom Lucas is at crotch height. Photo by Shawn McKee.

Tom Lucas. Photo by Shawn McKee.

Jared Silvia. Photo by Shawn McKee.

Karen Price. Photo by Shawn McKee.

NOTES

If you live in the City Beautiful, that is Orlando, come see me collaborate with others in The Pink Fire Revue on Saturday, June 4th.

Episode 206 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.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

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 92: J. Bradley!

29 Saturday Mar 2014

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Adam Scott Mazer, Anthony Trollope, Dodging Traffic, Graphic Poetry, He Knew He Was Right, J. Bradley, Molly Gleeson, Poetry Slams, The Bones of Us

Episode 92 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 multidisciplinary wonder that is J. Bradley,

Plus Molly Gleeson writes about reading Anthony Trollope while teaching in Saudia Arabia.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Hear J. Bradley read his “You + Me = Awwwwwww Yeah” + “Pussycat Interstellar Naked Hotrod Mofo Ladybug Lust Blaster” by Derrick Brown on the second erotic poetry live show of The Drunken Odyssey.

NOTES

I recommend Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s production of Julius Caesar, playing until April 20th.

Check out Beating Windward Press’s call for essays for its forthcoming essay collection, The Things They Did For Money: How Writers, Artists, and Creatives Support the Habit.

In England, authors are protesting a new measure that prohibits inmates from getting access to books in the mail (BBC).

Beckett once directed his own plays, in performances featuring San Quentin inmates.

Here’s an image of the Chronic City finale poster.

Episode 91 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.