Episode 269: A Craft Discussion of Robert Paul Lamb’s Art Matters with Vanessa Blakeslee!

15 Saturday Jul 2017

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Art Matters Hemingway Craft and the Creation of the Modern Short Story, Conradian Split, Ernest Hemingway, Purdue University, Robert Paul Lamb

Episode 269 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Zoë liked this work of scholarship. I basically had to borrow the book from her.

In this week’s episode, I talk with Vanessa Blakeslee about Robert Paul Lamb’s Art Matters: Hemingway, Craft, and the Creation of the Modern Short Story. Five years in, TDO finally devotes a show to Hemingway, and Bob’s discussion of Hemingway’s craft is profoundly illuminating to how effectively extraordinary Hemingway’s aesthetics were. I somehow manage not to tell the story how in my Purdue years, my roommates and I dubbed the more rustic of our two bathrooms as The Ernest Hemingway Memorial toilet, with a lot of great photos of Hem in it.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

Special thanks to Mistie Watkins for her encouragement with this episode.

On July 28th, I am hosting a reading by Jaimal Yogis at the Kerouac House.

Episode 269 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 40: Tony Hoagland!

15 Friday Mar 2013

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Craft of Fiction Writing, David Foster Wallace, Drinking, Episode

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Chuck Wachtel, Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, David Foster Wallace, Ernest Hemingway, Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Robert Paul Lamb, Tony Hoagland, Writing Podcast

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.