Miami Book Fair
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Episode 662: Susan Minot and Rufi Thorpe (interviewed by Samantha Nickerson)!

On today’s episode, Samantha Nickerson speaks with fiction writer Rufi Thorpe about her striking novel Margo’s Got Money Problems. In this episode, you learn about more than just Margo’s money problems. Samantha and Rufi discuss Only Fans, wrestling, creating characters, and motherhood’s thorny identity. Samantha then speaks to Susan Minot about erotic obsession, alienation, hyper-thinking, consciously making bad choices, and the presentation of Continue reading
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Episode 609: Meg Cabot & Kelle Groom!

On today’s show, Samantha Nickerson talks to novelist Meg Cabot and memoirist Kelle Groom! TEXTS DICSUSSED NOTES If you are an amazon customer, one way to support this show is to begin shopping with this affiliate link, so that the podcast is granted a small commission on anything you purchase at no additional cost to yourself. Continue reading
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Episode 552: A Celebration of Salman Rushdie and Miami Book Fair!
Episode 552 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s program, I talk to Chelsea Alice about Salman Rushdie’s playful parable from 2020, “The Old Man in the Piazza,” published in The New Yorker, plus I share Salman Rushdie’s 2017 event Continue reading
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Episode 508: Laura Blackett & Eve Gleichman
Episode 508 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). On today’s show, co-novelists Laura Blackett and Eve Gleichman talk about corporate cults, collaborative writing, and satire. Plus The Drunken Odyssey’s video producer Shawn Continue reading
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Episode 506: Shruti Swarmy!
Episode 506 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). On today’s show, Shruti Swarmy talks about calling the reader into a complete, already alive imaginary world, and writing about dance in ways that Continue reading
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Episode 500: Paul Auster!
Episode 500 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). On today’s show, I discuss the power of Stephen Crane with novelist Paul Auster. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES TDO listeners can get 20% of a Continue reading
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