Literature
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Episode 17: Chuck Wachtel, Part 2!
Episode 17 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 finish last week’s talk with the novelist and poet Chuck Wachtel, I talk to Chris Boothabout the old and the New International Center, Richard Negri digs into his soul, Continue reading
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Episode 16: Chuck Wachtel, Part 1
Episode 16 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 the novelist and poet Chuck Wachtel, Patrick Jehle discusses the book that really changed his life, and I respond to mail. Texts Discussed Check out new poems by Vanessa Continue reading
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Episode 14: Susan Hubbard!
Episode 14 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On episode 14, I talk to the novelist Susan Hubbard, Nate Rankin discusses David Foster Wallace, and John answers mail. TEXTS DISCUSSED Episode 14 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing Continue reading
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13 Girls on Episode 13!
Episode 13 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On Episode 13, I talk to Mikita Brottman about her latest book, 13 Girls, J.J. Anselmi discusses Lauren Slater’s Lying, and I answer mail to the entrancing tunes of The Tequila Worms. Texts Discussed Continue reading
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Episode 12: What’s on an Editor’s Mind? Find out.
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 Continue reading
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Episode 11: Mitchell S. Jackson, plus Robert Kingett Discusses Wordsworth
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 Continue reading
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Episode 10: Laren McClung, plus Claude Clayton Smith Discusses John Updike
Episode 10 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. This latest show features an interview with the poet Laren McClung, plus Claude Clayton Smith discusses John Updike. Texts Discussed: Episode 10 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, Continue reading
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Episode 9: John, Lisa, and Jaroslav Talk about More Films about Writers, Plus Krista Graham Discusses Dickens
Episode 9 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. This latest show features an interview with Lisa Claire Roney and Jaroslav Kalfař finish their talk about writer films that they begun in episode 7. Plus Krista Graham discusses David Copperfield. Texts Discussed: The BBC’s Fear & Continue reading
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Episode 8, in which John Says Many Things He Oughtn’t
Episode 8 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. This latest show features an interview with Ashley Inguanta, Randall Burling exhumes what Roger Corman’s films did to Edgar Allen Poe, Plus John tries to explain masculinity in this week’s male-bag, err, mailbag… Texts Continue reading
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Episode 7: John, Lisa, and Jaroslav Talk about Films about Writers, Plus Alise Hamilton Discusses Francesca Lia Block
Episode 7 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. This latest show features an interview with Lisa Claire Roney and Jaroslav Kalfař talk about films about writers, Alise Hamilton discusses Francesca Lia Block’s Dangerous Angels, Plus John listens to the swankness of The Tikiyaki Orchestra, and Continue reading
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