Episode 47: Nerd Love, Sweet Birds of Youth, and Everything Else in the Universe (A Live Reading)

04 Saturday May 2013

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Episode 47 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, it’s a great live event!

Notes

If you live in Central Florida, come to the next event in Jared Sylvia’s Functionally Literate series, despite the fact that I am reading there.

Episode 47 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 45: Richard Peabody!

19 Friday Apr 2013

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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

Notes

The music for Last Call was “Night Flight” by the band Carlton Melton.

The 2013 Pulitzer Prize Winners.

Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s Titus Andronicus runs through April 28.

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.

Episode 43: Lillian-Yvonne Bertram

06 Saturday Apr 2013

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Episode 43 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 Lillian-Yvonne Bertram,

Plus James Best discusses Gatsby.

Texts Discussed

Carlton Melton’s Photos of Photos.

Notes

Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s Titus Andronicus runs through April 28.

Music for this week’s essay provided by Carlton Melton.

Grrr: Amazon buys Goodreads.com.

The Tequila Worms have generously offered their album Cantina as a free download.

Episode 43 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 42: Stephen Elliott, Isaac Fitzgerald, & The Rumpus!

29 Friday Mar 2013

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Episode 42 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 Stephen Elliott and Isaac Fitzgerald of

plus Astrid Cook writes about Stephen King’s The Stand.

Texts Discussed

Isaac Fitzgerald’s Why I Agreed to be a Bend-over Boyfriend.

Notes

Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s Titus Andronicus runs through April 28.

Music for this week’s essay provided by Zelda Re-orchestrated.

Chinua Achebe, Literary Titan, dies at 82.

Episode 42 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 40: Tony Hoagland!

15 Friday Mar 2013

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Episode 40 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 Tony Hoagland,

Plus Bob Lamb Explains How Ernest Hemingway saved him from Rendition.

Texts Discussed

Art Matters Hemingway

Show Notes

This episode begins with a limerick written and read by Chris Booth, in honor of our pal Steve Kelly:

Just a few, and Steve’s eyes ‘gan to wander;

Then day next he was mute and a-ponder:

When he saw where he woke,

In sad tones, thus he spoke:

“It’s Absinthe makes the heart to grow fonder.”

Tonight, Saturday, and Sunday are the last days in Orlando to see Charlie Bethel’s awesome performance of The Odyssey.

Saturday (March 16th) is also the last day to see this season’s superb Othello at Orlando Shakespeare Theatre.

Episode 40 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 39: Rick Moody!

06 Wednesday Mar 2013

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Episode 39 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 Rick Moody,

James Best explains why he isn’t afraid of sharks,

Plus I talk to the playwright and actor Charlie Bethel about his current one man show of The Odyssey.

Texts Discussed

Notes

The Drunken Odyssey will be making a pub crawl in Boston this Friday.

Episode 39 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 38: Matthew Pitt!

02 Saturday Mar 2013

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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.

Episode 37: Steve Davenport!

18 Monday Feb 2013

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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…

Texts Discussed:

Notes:

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.

Episode 35: Philip F. Deaver!

09 Saturday Feb 2013

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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.

Texts Discussed:

Notes

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.

Episode 34: Stephen Burdman!

01 Friday Feb 2013

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Episode 34 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 Shakespeare with Stephen Burdman, the artistic director of New York Classical Theatre,

Plus Bronte Bettencourt talks about Lestat.

Texts Discussed:

The Vampire Lestat

Notes

Laurence Olivier’s screenplay adaptation of his never-filmed Macbeth has been found, according to The Guardian.

Barnes and Noble will be closing 20 stores a year for the next decade, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Throughout February, Rollins College will be hosting its annual author series,Winter with the Writers.

Orlando Shakespeare Theatre presents Othello, now through March 16th.

Episode 34 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.