Episode 279: Leslie Salas!

23 Saturday Sep 2017

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Bethany Duvall, Burrow Press, David James Poissant, Denver Publishing Institute, leslie salas, Libretto of the Damned, Madison Strake Bernath, Other Orlandos, Ryan Rivas

Episode 279 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 editing and publishing and writing and the post-MFA malaise with Leslie Salas.

Leslie Salas

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Leslie Salas currently blogs for The Gloria Sirens, and is an editor at Sweet.

Episode 279 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode #219: Loose Lips Live Show!

13 Saturday Aug 2016

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Amy Watkins, Li'l Indies, Logan Anderson, Loose Lips, Mary McGinn, Ryan Rivas, Tod Caviness

Episode 219 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

In this week’s episode, I share a recording of Loose Lips, the monthly current events literary thing hosted by the inestimable Tod Caviness.

The line up on that evening was Ryan Rivas, my awesome self, Mary McGinn, Logan Anderson, and Amy Watkins!

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This was a fun episode.

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Episode 110: Ryan Rivas and Nathan Holic!

26 Saturday Jul 2014

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Burrow Press, Florida Literature, Jonathan Kosik, Karen Best, Matt Peters, Nathan Holic, Orlando, Ryan Rivas

Episode 110 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 Ryan Rivas and Nathan Holic about the publication of Forget How You Found Us: 15 Views of Orlando, Volume III,

plus I share readings from stories by Karen Best, Matt Peters, and Jonathan Kosik from the collection.

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Learn about the great youth programs offered by Page 15 in Orlando.

Amazon is having a bad quarter, according to The New York Times.

Next month, Third Man Books, the new print publishing wing of Third Man Records, will release an anthology called Language Lessons, Volume 1.

Quentin Tarantino will be filming The Hateful Eight after all, according to Kurt Russell and the L.A. Times.

Check out the amazing surf rock revival of The Bambi Molesters.

Episode 110 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 87: Vanessa Blakeslee!

01 Saturday Mar 2014

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Drinking, Episode, Florida Literature, Vanessa Blakeslee

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Anthony Seidman, Burrow Press, Creative Writing, Florida Literature, Philip Deaver, Rollins College, Ryan Rivas, The City of Dreadful Night, Train Shots, Vanessa Blakeslee

Episode 87 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 fiction writer Vanessa Blakeslee,

And Anthony Seidman writes about James Thompson’s The City of Dreadful Night.

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If you live in NYC, check out this wonderful event with my friends Gilbert King (episode 60) and my fellow NYU alum, Maaza Mengiste. RSVP is required.

Find Burrow Press’s releases here, & check out the discounted subscription rate.

If you live in Orlando, do come to Vanessa’s book release party.

Episode 87 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 77: The Monorail Line Pub Crawl!

21 Saturday Dec 2013

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15 Views of Orlando, Bright Lights Big City, Celebration, cormac mccarthy, Diane Turgeon Richardson, Donald Duck, Florida, Jay McIrney, Maleficent, Mark Twain, Mary Blair, Mickey's Good Deed, Mickey's Nightmare, Microchips, Monorail, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, Nathan Holic, Neal Gabler, P. L. Travers, Ryan Rivas, Saving Mr. Banks, Skumps, Sleeping Beauty, Ted Hughes, Teege Braune, The Contemporary Resort, The Grand Floridian, The Great Dark, The Magic of Walt Disney World, The Mickey Mouse Review, The Polynesian Resort, The Three Caballeros, Walt Disney, Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination, Wholly Smokes

Episode 77 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, my friends Teege Braune of In Boozo Veritas fame, Ryan Rivas of Burrow Press fame, Nathan Holic of American Fraternity Man fame, and MFA candidate Dianne Turgeon Richardson join me along the monorail line for an epic-length pub crawl across the Magic King resorts at Walt Disney World.

Ryan Rivas, Diane Turgeon Richardson, moi, Nathan Holic, and Teege Braune on the Polynesian’s monorail station.

A stanchion at the Polynesian Resort, this tiki appears to be licking its torch.

BOOKS DISCUSSED

The Devil’s Race-Track: Mark Twain’s “Great Dark” Writings”> The Devils Race Track

MOVIES DISCUSSED

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The Heaven of Animals, the forthcoming collection from friend-of-the-show David James Poissant, is available for pre-order. Please support the launch of his book, which is wonderful reading.

Episode 77 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.