Episode 50: David Sedaris

25 Saturday May 2013

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Episode 50 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 show, I talk to the memoir writer David Sedaris,

plus Pamela Skjolsvik discusses David Sedaris’s Me Talk Pretty One Day,

and Adriana Lecuona writes about Ursula K. Le Guin’s “Those Who Leave Omelas.”

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David’s inscription in my copy of Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim.

One of Ian Falconer’s illustrations from Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk.

Episode 50 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 41: Emily Brandt!

23 Saturday Mar 2013

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Episode 41 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 and teacher Emily Brandt,

Plus Denise Falcone talks about Nabokov’s Ada.

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The Inside Colocation blog.

Florida’s Blue Ribbon Panel on Higher Education Reform is wrong.

I love the ad-free dictionary aggregator, wordnik.

The New Yorker Rejects Itself.

Episode 41 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

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,

Plus Adam Soldolfsky reads from Panorama-orama.

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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 32: Terry Cronin!

19 Saturday Jan 2013

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Episode 32 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 Terry Cronin,

And Jean Davis offers one amazing essay about Write is a Verb.

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Susan Lilley will be reading from her new book of poems, Satellite Beach, on Thursday, January 24th, at Rollins College. For more info, click here.

Show contributor Alise Hamilton (episode 7) discusses bingers and plodders, and the merits of the former as writers, at Bill and Dave’s Cocktail Hour.

A history of the Coppertone sign.

Episode 32 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.

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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.

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.

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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.