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Episode 320: Bloomsday 2018!

23 Saturday Jun 2018

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Bloomsday, James Joyce, Ulysses

Episode 320 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 program, The Drunken Odyssey enjoys perhaps its final Bloomsday live show, and its perhaps final visit to The Gallery at Avalon Island.

Bloomsday 2018 Jeremy DaCruz

Jeremy DaCruz by Steve Erwin.

Bloomsday 2018 Music!

Matthew Davis, Alisha Erao, and Sarah Morrison by Steve Erwin.

Bloomsday 2018 Octavia Finch

Octavia Finch by Steve Erwin.

Bloomsday 2018 Elise McKenna

Elise McKenna by Steve Erwin.

Bloomsday 2018 Erik Branch

Erik Branch by Steve Erwin.

Bloomsday 2018 John King

John King by Steve Erwin.

Bloomsday 2018 Emmi Green

Emmi Green by Steve Erwin.

Bloomsday 2018 Pat Greene

Patrick Greene and Jeremy DaCruz by Steve Erwin.

Episode 320 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 240: Irvine Welsh!

31 Saturday Dec 2016

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A Decent Ride, Aleksander Hemon, Dublin, Edinburgh, Irvine Welsh, James Joyce, The City as Character, The Making of Zombie Wars, Trainspotting, Ulysses

Episode 240 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 to fiction writer Irvine Welsh about his latest novel, A Decent Ride, Edinburgh as a character, the influence of climate and populace on characterization, and the way to balance outrageous plot twists with earnestness, too.

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Here I am with Irvine Welsh back in 2012.

I also share him reading from A Decent Ride, along with Aleksander Hemon reading from The Making of Zombie Wars.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

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NOTES

Thanks to Pressure Wave (Jared Silvia) for his song “Two Thousand Six.”

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Episode 240 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

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Episode 90: St. Patrick’s Day Roundtable!

16 Sunday Mar 2014

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Drinking, Episode, James Bond, Zombies

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Finnegan's Wake, In Defense of Green Beer, James Joyce, James King, Jared Silvia, Matthew Peters, St. Patrick's Day, Tattoos, Teege Braune, Tilly, William Butler Yeats

Episode 90 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, my friends Teege Braune of In Boozo Veritas fame, Matt Peters, Jared Silvia, and my brother James King join me for a wooly discussion of St. Patrick’s Day. Much was consumed.

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Jared and James watch Teege do his miraculous pouring technique.

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The foot of good cheer.

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How can it be possible Teege is only a quarter Irish?

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Creamy toasty goodness.

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Eventually, the peer pressure was too great for sweet Matthew.

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My red face was sunburn. The angle of my head, weariness.

Episode 90 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 72: We Drink!

08 Friday Nov 2013

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Baudelaire, Charles Bukowski, Diane Turgeon Richardson, Ernest Hemingway, Farenheit 451, James Joyce, Matt Peters, Ray Bradbury, Teege Braune, William Faulkner, William S. Burroughs

Episode 72 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, My friends Teege Braune of In Boozo Veritas fame, Matt Peters of Windward Press, and MFA candidate Dianne Turgeon Richardson join me to discuss matters literary and drinkerly.

Teege Braun and Matt Peters

Diane Turgeon Richardson

Plus Dave Patterson writes about how Ray Bradbury’s Farenheit 451 transformed him.

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TEXTS DISCUSSED

60th anniversary edition

Bukowski On drinking

Baudelaire Beer

Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation

NOTES

To read Teege Braun’s liner notes for this episode, see #15 of his blog, In Boozo Veritas.

Carlton Melton‘s song “Use Your Words” from their album Country Ways accompanied Dave Patterson’s “A Pleasure to Burn.”

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Laurie Anderson’s Remembrance of Lou Reed appears in Rolling Stone.

Teege Braune’s eulogy for Lou Reed appeared in In Boozo Veritas #13.

This weekend Playfest is happening at Orlando Shakespeare Theatre.

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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 wonderful reading.

The Heaven of Animals

 Episode 72 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 54: Bloomsday in Orlando!

22 Saturday Jun 2013

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Bloomsday, Cinema, Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, Fiction, James Joyce, Literature, Shakespeare, Ulysses, Writing Podcast

Episode 54 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 share the live Bloomsday event!

Bloomsday 2013

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See our kickstarter campaign to travel to Weeki Wachee Springs to interview Lu Vickers about Florida literature and the world famous Weeki Wachee mermaids.

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Richard Peabody, our guest on episode 45, has a new audio book of poems available through Eat Poems.  Sample the poems, then pay what you wish for the download!

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On Saturday, June 22, from 5 to 8, The Drunken Odyssey will sink anchor here:

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Here’s this week’s book:

Episode 54 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

How to Read Ulysses for the First Time

13 Wednesday Jun 2012

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Bloomsday, Drinking, James Joyce

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James Joyce, Literature

First, get quite soddenly drunk.

Second, sit yourself outside, in a comfy place, like a hammock, rocking chair, settee, or else a blanket spread on a tufty patch of lawn, and remember of course to bring more drink with you.

Third, and this stage pertains only to the more radical readers, read the book.  This stage is not absolutely necessary to read the book, for several studies of Ulysses can furnish you with readings of the book that will prove to be much less inconvenient to your brain than actually reading the book.

Now for those intrepid readers who will read Ulysses by reading Ulysses, I offer this plain advice: in reading Ulysses, two types of nonsense shall manifest themselves: (1) nonsense worth translating into sense, and (2) nonsense that cannot be translated into sense.  Regarding the first: this category can be greatly reduced if you read the entirety of the literary canon first (only a suggestion), and in regard to the obsolete references to the Dublin of 1904, consulting Don Gifford’s Annotations to Ulysses helps (incidentally, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, volume two, contains smallish portions of Ulysses with useful footnotes, and Oxford paperbacks has an edition with somewhat comprehensive endnotes).  About the second type of nonsense: that is what the extra drink is for, so have plenty of it.

Once the fun of beginning to read Ulysses has begun, you should expect the malaise to follow, for U. innately invites the universal disintegration of mental faculties (which ought not be confused with the mental disintegration of university faculties), thus transfiguring its ardent readers into pedantic dizzards with all the social graces of Coleridge’s ancient mariner, or as Robert Burton says in The Anatomy of Melancholy, “silly, soft fellows in their outward behavior.”  Like a drunk attempting to look sober, so should you too attempt to look normal; for though you will deceive only the fools, everyone else will at least appreciate your consideration in making wanton stabs at social decency despite your thorough lack of success. Remember: real people are not doing this thing you are doing.  Also, your brain is like the gullet of a person who is drinking, so you should consistently give your brain equivalents of foodstuffs (whatever your fancies are) with which to slacken the boozy stream of Joyce’s prose as it courses down your helpless esophagus, lest your brain, as Burton warns, “by much study is consumed.”

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Once the preliminary chapters are read, the really debilitating material appears–for myself, it occurred somewhere in the–well, as things turns out, I forget which chapter (at this point, I recommend that you check the status of your supply of drink).  My memory at this point becomes unreliable, and it will only become more so, for the distinctions between what I felt and what I feel (or, as often as not, what I do not feel) are too subtle for me to make (thus, the provisional myth of a significant difference between 2012 and 1993 becomes as mimsy as that of a significant difference between 1998 and 1922 (and likewise, that of a significant difference between 1922 and 1904)).  I feel (and here one detects the whim of providence) compelled not to go making things up since I only promised to help students read Ulysses, and yet I hardly have done a thorough or otherwise adequate job of telling them how to read Ulysses, which is how I planned to end this missive, and, as I go, I offer only this last advice: read as quickly as possible (and even more quickly than that if possible).

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