Episode 147: Scott Bailey!

11 Saturday Apr 2015

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Bad Dog, Chad W. Lutz, David Kirby, Erin Belieu, Jennifer Hoppe-House, New York Quarterly Press, Orlando Shakespeare Theater, Philip Levine, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, Scott Bailey, Sharon Olds, stephen king, Thus Spake Gigolo

Episode 147 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 talk to the poet Scott Bailey, whose work is newly banned in South Korea…

Scott Bailey and Raquel Obando.

plus Chad W. Lutz writes about Stephen King’s novella “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption.”

TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

The music accompanying Chad W. Lutz’s essay was “Crater” by The Spanish Donkey.

Ginger Lee McDermott as Molly in Jennifer Hoppe-House’s Bad Dog (Photo by Tony Firriolo).

Check out Jennifer Hoppe-House’s Bad Dog, playing at Orlando Shakespeare Theater through May 5th.

Episode 132: Joanna Rakoff and Tony Hoagland!

28 Sunday Dec 2014

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Episode, Memoir, Poetry

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Brittany McIntyre, Joanna Rakoff, My Salinger Year, Sharon Olds, Tony Hoagland, Twenty Poems That Could Save America, Twilight

Episode 132 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 interview novelist and memoirsit Joanna Rakoff,

Photo by David Ignaszewski

and then talk once again with the poet Tony Hoagland,

Photo by Ann Staveley

plus Brittany McIntyre writes bravely about how a book I never expected to learn more about changed her life.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

Carlton Melton‘s “Country Ways” accompanied Brittany McIntyre’s essay.

In Orlando, come hear me, Kimberly Lojewski, Robert Metcalf, and Tiffany Razzano read at There Will Be Words on January 13th.

Learn more about J. Bradley’s love poem workshop at the Orlando Public Library here.

Check out the dreamy surf rock of The Bambi Molesters.

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Episode 132 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 79: Sharon Olds and Robert Pinsky!

04 Saturday Jan 2014

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Christopher Smart, Laurence Hobgood, Miami Bookfair International, Poemjazz, Robert Pinsky, Sharon Olds, Singing School, Stag's Leap

Episode 79 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 present my interview with Sharon Olds,

and my interview with Robert Pinsky,

plus I share Robert Pinsky and Laurence Hobgood’s performance of Creole.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

I am in the running for the “Best of 2013” show of Jesse Bradley’s reading series, There Will be Words. The current poll is here until midnight, January 6.

The Drunken Odyssey now has a youtube channel.

In the New York Times’s Bit blog, David Steitfield has wrung his hands about the analytics coming out of subscription services for ebook libraries. There is a nice still photo of Keria Knightly from the film of Pride and Prejudice.

Amiri Baraka seems to be recovering after his hospital visit last week, according to The New York Daily News.

The Heaven of Animals, the forthcoming collection from friend-of-the-show David James Poissant (my co-host of the mailbag episodes), is available for pre-order. Please support the launch of this stellar story collection.

Episode 79 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.