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Episode 33: Chauncey Mabe!

27 Sunday Jan 2013

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Episode 33 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 noted reviewer Chauncey Mabe,

Chauncey Mabe

Plus Adam Soldolfsky reads from Panorama-orama.

Adam Soldofsky

Texts Discussed

The Rubáyát of Omar Khayyám

The Spy Who Loved Me 2

Notes

Chauncey Mabe’s now defunct but still evergreen blog for the Florida Center for the Literary Arts.

Amazon cannot underprice books in France, as reported in The New York Times.

Books and Books, the best independent in South Florida.

Orlando Cultural Events

This week, the Zora Neale Hurston Festival is underway.

Attend The Drunken Odyssey’s Evening of Erotic Poetry on February 8th.

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

Episode 31: Grant Ginder!

13 Sunday Jan 2013

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Episode 31 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 novelist Grant Ginder,

Grant Ginder

Plus Tim J. Myers discusses Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are,

Tim Myers

Texts Discussed

Driver's Education
This is How it Starts
Where The Wild Things Are
This is How You Lose Her
Tom Ameen Solo Piano Moments
Notes

The Drunken Odyssey has its first video posting!  Presenting Martin Amis at Miami Bookfair International (the video version of episode 26).

Martin Amis at Miami Bookfair International 2012 from John King on Vimeo.

David Bowie’s new song, “Where Are We Now?”

Is Barnes and Noble in Trouble?

Episode 31 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 30: Francesca Lia Block!

29 Saturday Dec 2012

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Episode 30 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 weeks show, I interview the fabulous Francesca Lia Block,

Francesca Lia Block

Plus Lillian-Yvonne Bertram reads her poem, “You Can’t Outdrink The Moon, O Sestina, Sestina Who Has Been Drinking.”

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram

Texts Discussed

The Elementals
But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise
Crazy Clown Time
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
This is How You Lose Her
Notes

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram’s poem ”You Can’t Outdrink The Moon, O Sestina, Sestina Who Has Been Drinking” is a remix of Steve Davenport’s “The Sestina Has Been Drinking,” which is available in his new book, Overpass.

Overpass

On January 6th, Ashley Inguanta will perform her debut collection, The Way Home, with musicians Mandy Burgan and Benoit Glazer, and with dancer Christin Carlow.  Find out more here.

The greatest new trend in libraries.

Matt Taibbi’s Readers’ list of 10 most pretentious moments in history.

James Franco is, umm, a poet. [Guardian] [The New York Times]

Episode 30 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 28: J.T. Waldman

16 Sunday Dec 2012

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Episode 28 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 the comic book writer and artist J. T. Waldman,

JT Waldman

and Elizabeth Sauchelli discusses Star Girl.

Elizabeth Sauchelli

Texts Discussed

MegillatEsther.JTW

NTIMPPM.cover

stargirl

Understanding Comics

introducing Cultural Studies

Darin Strauss’s Reasons to Rejoyce.

Notes

Pages 106-107 of Megillat Esther.

Pages 106-107 of Megillat Esther.

Pages 146-147 of Megillat Esther.

Pages 146-147 of Megillat Esther.

NTIMPPM.page.35

Page 35 of Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me.

Page 148 of Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me.

Page 148 of Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me.

Episode 28 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 26: Martin Amis Event!

01 Saturday Dec 2012

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Episode 26 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 present Martin Amis’s event at Miami Book Fair International, which began at 11 A.M., November 17, 2012.


Martin_Amis_2012_by_Maximilian_Schoenherr

 Texts Discussed

The Elementals
Crazy Clown Time
Episode 26 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.


Episode 25: Martin Amis, Irvine Welsh, and Bunny Yeager!

23 Friday Nov 2012

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Episode 25 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’s show is my Miami Book Fair International Spectacular!

I bring you interviews with Martin Amis, Irvine Welsh, and Bunny Yeager.

Here I am with the novelist Irvine Welsh.

A Long-legged Little Red Riding Hood rocks the street fair.

Elsewhere in the street fair, near dusk, Conor McCreery discusses bardicide.

 Texts Discussed

Episode 25 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 21: On the glories of lounges, and what they hold

27 Saturday Oct 2012

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Episode 21 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 mid-century grandeur and men’s magazines and burlesque with Jason Croft, aka Java, editor of Bachelor Pad Magazine.

Plus Beverly Army Williams writes about John irving’s A Widow for One Year.

Texts Discussed:

On November 1st at 6 P.M., Don Peteroy (Episode 19) 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.

From November 11-18l, Miami Book Fair International Will offer a cornucopia of literary culture.

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.

Episode 21 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 20: Crossing the Creek with Anna Lillios

20 Saturday Oct 2012

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Episode 20 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 Florida literature with the literary scholar Anna Lillios,

Alison Barker writes about Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Chronology of Water,

And I respond to mail.

Texts Discussed:

On November 1st at 6 P.M., Don Peteroy (Episode 19) 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.

Episode 20 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 19: Don Peteroy!

13 Saturday Oct 2012

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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!

Texts Discussed:

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.

 
For my Boston listeners: on Thursday, October 18th at 7:00pm, Andover Book Store presents, An Evening of Fiction with JULIANNA BAGGOTT and LAURIE FOOS.
 
For my Central Florida listeners (again): Don Peteroy—who is this week’s guest—will be participating in two events.

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.

 
 
Check out this fine magazine from this week’s sponsor:
 
My short story “The Stars Are Bouncing Tonight” appeared in issue #20.
 
 
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.

Episode 18: Richard Manchester in Lederhosen + Adam Walck and the Whale!

07 Sunday Oct 2012

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Episode 18 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 novelist Richard Manchester,

The Lederhosen are technically not visible in this shot

Adalm Walck discusses House of Leaves and Moby Dick

Plus I answer some mail while listening to The Necronomikids!

Like the Necronomikids on facebook.

Texts Discussed


Please join me in requesting Disney Online to offer Jeff Kurtti something like a straightforward, sensible space to blog in, where his fans can subscribe and be informed of any new posts, and not have to scour Disney Online to find the touching, interesting things that he has written. There is a demand for his writing, even if Disney Online is not sufficiently aware of that.

For my Central Florida listeners: Go see Lauren Butler, TDO‘s announcer,  in Orlando Shakespeare Theatre’s Studio production of The Exit Interview!

Episode 18 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.