• About
  • Cats Dig Hemingway
  • Guest Bookings
  • John King’s Publications
  • Literary Memes
  • Podcast Episode Guide
  • Store!
  • The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film
  • Videos
  • Writing Craft Discussions

The Drunken Odyssey

~ A Podcast About the Writing Life

The Drunken Odyssey

Tag Archives: Tom McAllister

Episode 304: Book Fight! vs. The Drunken Odyssey (AWP Edition)

10 Saturday Mar 2018

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in AWP, Episode

≈ 3 Comments

Tags

AWP, Book Fight, Dan Brady, Tom McAllister, Vanessa Blakeslee

Episode 304 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 special AWP program, Vanessa Blakeslee and I face off against Book Fight’s Tom McAllister and Barrelhouse’s Poetry Editor, Dan Brady.

Bookight vs. TDO 1

Photo by Katherine J. Parker.

Bookight vs. TDO 3

Photo by Katherine J. Parker.

Bookight vs. TDO 4

Photo by Katherine J. Parker.

Bookight vs. TDO 2

Photo by Katherine J. Parker.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Young Widowers Handbook

bury-me-in-my-jersey

Juventud

Train Shots

Strange Children


Episode 304 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 220: Sam Slaughter!

20 Saturday Aug 2016

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Episode, Florida Literature, Literary Prizes, Literature of Florida, Memoir, Travel Writing

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

A Brief History of World Travel (Part 8): Notes on Baltimore, Bastard Out of Carolina, Denis Johnson, Dorothy Allison, Florida Man, God in Neon, Jesus' Son, Mark Powell, Orlando, Sam Slaughter, The Bambi Molesters, The Young Widower's Handbook, There Will Be Words, Tom McAllister, When You Cross That Line

Episode 220 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 my friend, fiction writer Sam Slaughter, who I met back in 2014, when he wrote a little something about Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son for the show. We talk about his short story collection, God in Neon, his chapbook, When You Cross That Line (inspired by Florida Man stories), alcoholism, how we evolve as writers, and the Orlando writing scene.

Sam Slaughter

Photo by Oxley Photography 2014

Plus Tom McAllister of Book Fight fame reads his personal essay, “A Brief History of World Travel (Part 8): Notes on Baltimore, MD.”

Tom McAllister

TEXTS DISCUSSED

God in Neon

When You Cross That Line

The Sheltering

Bastard Out Of Carolina

NOTES

  • Check out Sam Slaughter’s website.
  • Hear Sam read his essay about Denis Johnson’s Jesus’s Son back on episode 119.
  • Or hear Sam read his essay about his misadventures in brewing beer back on episode 126.
  • Or hear Sam reads his essay about helping himself to some sacramental wine as part of our Repeal Day 2014 show back on episode 129.
  • Read the text of A Brief History of World Travel (part 8) – Notes on Baltimore, MD, or check out Tom McAllister’s other essays in this series, and his other work, on his website.
  • Consider pre-ordering Tom McAllister’s forthcoming novel, The Young Widower’s Handbook.

Young Widowers HandbookListen to the music of The Bambi Molesters.

Sonic Bullets


Episode 220 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Save

Save

Save

Save

Save

Save

Save

Save

Save

Save

Episode 146: A Roundtable Discussion of MFA vs. NYC

04 Saturday Apr 2015

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Episode, Poetry, Publishing

≈ 1 Comment

Tags

A WIld Swing of the Knfie, Boris Fishman, Bury Me in My Jersey, David James Poissant, J. Bradley, Joanna Rakoff, MFA vs. NYC, My Salinger Year, Tom McAllister, Vanessa Blakeslee

Episode 146 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 host a roundtable discussion with Vanessa Blakeslee, David James Poissant, and Boris Fishman, in which we critique the essay collection, MFA vs. NYC,

EP 146 posterPlus J. Bradley reads a selection from his new prose poem book, A Wild Swing of the Knife.

Jesse BradleyTEXTS DISCUSSED

MFA vs NYC

BMIMJ frontMy Salinger YearIt is a Wild Swing of the KnifeNOTES

Buy It is a Wild Swing of the Knife here.

Patrick Hawkins (Episode 145) and his fellow Geeks of Comedy will be performing at Megacon on April 10th and 11th in Orlando. Check here for more info.

Geeks of ComedyCongrats to Bookmark It on its new digs on the first floor of the East End Market.

Bookmark It Ribbon cutting_______

Episode 146 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Blog at WordPress.com.

  • Follow Following
    • The Drunken Odyssey
    • Join 3,115 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • The Drunken Odyssey
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...