Vanessa Blakeslee
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Episode 412: A Discussion of Douglas Glover’s The Erotics of Restraint, with Vanessa Blakeslee!
Episode 412 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing.) This week, my occasional co-host, Vanessa Blakeslee, and I discuss Douglas Glover’s latest collection, The Erotics of Restraint: Essays on Literary Form. We explore his insights… Continue reading
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Episode 408: A Discussion of Paul Fussell’s Class, with Vanessa Blakeslee!
Episode 408 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing.) This week, my occasional co-host, Vanessa Blakeslee, and I discuss Paul Fussell’s entertaining treatise, Class: A Guide Through the American Status System. While this is… Continue reading
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Episode 386: A Craft Discussion of Mystery and Manners, with Vanessa Blakeslee and Lisa Roney!
Episode 386 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). In this week’s episode, I wear an ugly shirt from outer space to speak with Vanessa Blakeslee and Lisa Roney about Flannery O’Connor’s Mysteries and Manners.… Continue reading
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Episode 324: Vanessa Blakeslee!
Episode 324 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 with Vanessa Blakeslee about short story writing over the long haul, and about her brand new book, Perfect Conditions. Plus James Chapin writes about how the King James Bible changed… Continue reading
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Episode 304: Book Fight! vs. The Drunken Odyssey (AWP Edition)
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. TEXTS DISCUSSED Episode 304 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast… Continue reading
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Episode 291: A Very French Christmas!
Episode 291 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 with Vanessa Blakeslee about the new fiction anthology, A Very French Christmas, from New Vessel Press. NOTES Some context for the dubious Dutch tradition of Black Pete. David Sedaris discusses this in… Continue reading
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Episode 287: A Craft Discussion of Ann Hood’s Morningstar with Vanessa Blakeslee!
Episode 287 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 with Vanessa Blakeslee about Ann Hood’s MorningStar: Growing Up With Books. NOTES Check out my interview with Ann Hood back on episode 242. If you haven’t yet done so, get ahold of… Continue reading
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Episode 257: A Craft Discussion of Margaret Atwood’s In Other Worlds with Vanessa Blakeslee!
Episode 257 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 with Vanessa Blakeslee about Margaret Atwood’s In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination. TEXTS DISCUSSED Episode 257 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available… Continue reading
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Episode 224: A Craft Discussion About Virginia Woolf’s “Modern Fiction” and “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown,” with Vanessa Blakeslee!
Episode 224 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 with Vanessa Blakeslee about Virginia Woolf’s “Modern Fiction” and “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown,” plus Mingzhao Xu writes about Diana Gabaldon’s Outlanders series changed her life. TEXTS DISCUSSED Mr. Kim (Kindle… Continue reading
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Episode 217: A Craft Discussion About Charles Bukowski’s On Writing, with Vanessa Blakeslee!
Episode 217 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 with Vanessa Blakeslee about On Writing, a book of selections from Charles Bukowski’s letters, plus poet Henry Hughes writes me a letter about his own correspondence with Bukowski back from… Continue reading
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The Drunken Odyssey is a forum to discuss all aspects of the writing process, in a variety of genres, in order to foster a greater community among writers.
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