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Episode 174: Vanessa Blakeslee!

10 Saturday Oct 2015

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David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, James Stewart III, Juventud, 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,

Photo by Ashley Inguanta.

Photo by Ashley Inguanta.

plus James Stewart III writes about how reading David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest changed his life.

James Stewart III

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Juventud

Infinite Jest

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.

Vanessa Blakeslee Book Tour

  • Svetlana Alexievich has won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
  • Elvis, the king cobra who has roamed Orlando for the last 5 weeks, has been found.
  • In turns out, Publix Supermarkets don’t recycle human skulls.

Episode 174 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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