19 Friday Apr 2013
Posted in Episode, Literary Magazines, Poetry
Episode 45 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
This week, I talk to Richard Peabody, the editor of Gargoyle Magazine,
Plus Kirsten Holt reads a beautiful elegy.
Texts Discussed
The music for Last Call was “Night Flight” by the band Carlton Melton.
14 Sunday Apr 2013
Posted in Episode, Literary Magazines
Episode 44 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
This week, I talk to the poet and VIDA’s co-founder Erin Belieau,
Plus Julie Henderson discusses Clive Barker’s The Thief of Always.
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Notes
Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s Titus Andronicus runs through April 28.
Pablo Neruda’s body is being exhumed, after his poetry was last month desecrated by a Kentucky Senator.
Ireland mints a James Joyce coin. Textual scholars are already at work discrediting the text.
Music for this week’s essay provided by Steven McClurg.
Episode 44 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
02 Saturday Mar 2013
Posted in Craft of Fiction Writing, Drinking, Episode, Recommendation, Shakespeare
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Chuck Wachtel, Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, Disney, Fiction, Literary Magazines, Literature, Shakespeare, Writing Podcast
Episode 38 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 fiction writer Matthew Pitt,
plus Pamela Skjolsvik discusses David Sedaris’s Me Talk Pretty One Day.
Texts Discussed
Ishmael Reed’s WSJ blog about Django Unchained.
Kirtsen Holt’s new poem, Taxonomy.
Notes:
Orlando Shakespeare Theatre presents Othello, now through March 16th.
Episode 38 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
18 Monday Feb 2013
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cormac mccarthy, Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, Fiction, Literary Magazines, Literature, Poetry, Shakespeare, stephen king
Episode 37 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 Steve Davenport,
Joe Conley plums Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God,
Plus I answer some mail…
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Orlando Shakespeare Theatre presents Othello, now through March 16th.
Throughout February, Rollins College will be hosting its annual author series, Winter with the Writers.
Episode 37 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
09 Saturday Feb 2013
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Burrow Press, Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, Fiction, Literary Magazines, Literature, Poetry, Theatre, Writing Podcast
Episode 35 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 with my friend Philip F. Deaver, who happens to have won a Flannery O’Conner Award,
plus Helena-Anne Htittel discusses Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner.
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Throughout February, Rollins College will be hosting its annual author series, Winter with the Writers.
Orlando Shakespeare Theatre presents Othello, now through March 16th. Get the Groupon here.
In other Shakespeare news, Richard III’s remains were found underneath a parking lot. I’m not making this up–it’s in The Times.
Episode 35 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
08 Saturday Dec 2012
Posted in Craft of Fiction Writing, Episode, Literary Magazines
Episode 27 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 fiction writer and Southern Review co-editor, Cara Blue Adams,
Plus I present some of Richard Negri’s jazz poetry,
& I answer some mail.
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Episode 27 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
03 Saturday Nov 2012
Posted in Craft of Fiction Writing, Episode, Hunter S. Thompson
Episode 22 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 discuss fiction writing with Jacob M. Appel, the recent winner of both the Dundee International Book Prize and the Hudson Prize.
Plus Lisa Martens writes about The Catcher in the Rye.
And I answer some mail, and find myself talking about tequila, really bad tequila.
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N.B.: Please sign my petition requesting Disney Online to offer Disney historian Jeff Kurtti (our guest on episode 15) an official blog.
From November 11-18l, Miami Book Fair International Will offer a cornucopia of literary culture.
Episode 22 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
13 Saturday Oct 2012
Posted in Craft of Fiction Writing, David Foster Wallace, Episode, James Joyce
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Burrow Press, Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, Don Peteroy, J.R.R. Tolkien, Literary Magazines, Literature, The Silmarillion, Writing Podcast
Episode 19 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 fiction writer Don Peteroy,
K.C. Wilson discusses J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion,
And I answer mail while listening to The Intoxicators!
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For my Central Florida listeners: Go see Lauren Butler, TDO‘s announcer, in Orlando Shakespeare Theatre’s Studio production of The Exit Interview! Now playing through October 21.
On November 1st at 6 P.M., he will be giving a reading from his new novella, Wally, in room 316 of the University of Central Florida Student Union.
And On Saturday, November 3rd at 7 P.M., he’ll participate in Functionally Literate: A Literary Function, a new reading series organized by Burrow Press and The Kerouac Project, held at Urban ReThink.
N.B.: Please sign my petition requesting Disney Online to offer Disney historian Jeff Kurtti (our guest on episode 15) something like a straightforward, sensible space to blog in.
24 Friday Aug 2012
Posted in Episode, Hunter S. Thompson, Literary Magazines
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Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, Fiction, Literary Magazines, Literature, Poetry, Writing Podcast
Episode 12 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
In it, I interview with the vagabonding editor of Palooka, Jonathan Starke.
Plus Rusty Kjarvik takes us on an Odyssey of the mind with Nikos Kazantzakis’s verse.
And in this week’s mailbag, I talk about Hunter S. Thompson, Hemingway, and Wallace Stevens.
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Episode 12 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
20 Monday Aug 2012
Posted in Craft of Fiction Writing, Episode
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Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, Fiction, Literary Magazines, Literature, Poetry, Writing Podcast
Episode 11 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
The latest features an interview with fiction writer and essayist Mitchell S. Jackson,
Robert Kingett discusses William Wordsworth,
Plus I valiantly try to answer your mail.
N.B.: Infinite thanks to Christopher Booth, who recorded Wordsworth’s I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
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Episode 11 is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
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