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Episode 112: A Craft Discussion About Aristotle’s Poetics, with Vanessa Blakeslee

09 Saturday Aug 2014

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Craft of Fiction Writing, Episode, Vanessa Blakeslee

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Aristotle's Poetics, High Before Homeroom, John Gardner, Kevin Bray, Martin Amis, On Becoming a Novelist, The Blind Assassin, The Roaring Girl, Vanessa Blakeslee

Episode 112 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 Vanessa Blakeslee about what Aristotle’s Poetics can teach us about fiction writing today,

Vanessa Blakeslee

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Plus Kevin Bray writes about reading John Gardner’s On Becoming a Novelist.

Kevin Bray

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Poetics

High Before Homeroom

The Roaring Girl

The Blind AssassinSuccess

On Becoming a Novelist

NOTES

This new project–discussing relevant books about the craft of storytelling–is a continuation of a long defunct feature of the show. Two years ago, Jaroslav Kalfař and I discussed Stephen King’s On Writing on episode 6 and John Gardner’s The Art of Fiction on episode 2.

Quoting George Orwell in an shockingly Orwellian way, Amazon has undertaken a weird counter-compaign to the Authors United movement, according to David Streitfield in The Times. Check out the statement from Authors United that led to this counter-campaign.


Episode 112 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

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