Episode 324: Vanessa Blakeslee!

21 Saturday Jul 2018

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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.

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Plus James Chapin writes about how the King James Bible changed his life.

James Chapin

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Episode 324 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

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

10 Saturday Mar 2018

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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.

Photo by Katherine J. Parker.

Photo by Katherine J. Parker.

Photo by Katherine J. Parker.

Photo by Katherine J. Parker.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

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 291: A Very French Christmas!

09 Saturday Dec 2017

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A Very French Christmas, New Vessel Press, Vanessa Blakeslee

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 his essay, “6 to 8 Black Men.”

Be sure to check out the music of David Rego, whose song “Harp” appears on this episode.

Dave Rego

Episode 291 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 287: A Craft Discussion of Ann Hood’s Morningstar with Vanessa Blakeslee!

11 Saturday Nov 2017

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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 Vanessa’s books!

Episode 287 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 257: A Craft Discussion of Margaret Atwood’s In Other Worlds with Vanessa Blakeslee!

29 Saturday Apr 2017

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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.

Vanessa and John 2

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Episode 257 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 224: A Craft Discussion About Virginia Woolf’s “Modern Fiction” and “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown,” with Vanessa Blakeslee!

17 Saturday Sep 2016

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Diana Gabaldon, Ilyse Kusnetz, Lionel Shriver, Modern Fiction, Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown, Outlander, Vanessa Blakeslee, Virginia Woolf

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,”

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plus Mingzhao Xu writes about Diana Gabaldon’s Outlanders series changed her life.

mingzhao-xu

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Mr. Kim (Kindle Single) mr-kim

NOTES

Suki Kim’s nuanced take on what happened in Brisbane can be read at The New Republic.

Lionel Shriver’s keynote speech from The Brisbane Writers Festival, “Identity Politics and Fiction,” can be read at The Guardian.

On September 30th, Richard Blanco is coming to Valencia College for the Winter Park Writers’ Festival. Richard Blanco’s reading is FREE, but you MUST reserve a seat via the Festival’s Eventbrite page.

EVENT DETAILS

Location: Winter Park Campus, Valencia College, 850 W Morse Blvd, Winter Park, FL 32789, Rooms 237/2424
4 PM: Community Writing Class with Richard Blanco
5:30 PM: Open Mic Reading (Emceed by John King)
7:00 PM: Richard Blanco Reading

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Episode 217: A Craft Discussion About Charles Bukowski’s On Writing, with Vanessa Blakeslee!

30 Saturday Jul 2016

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Charles Bukowski, Henry Hughes, Post Office, Purdue University, Sycamore Review, Vanessa Blakeslee, Women

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,

Vanessa and John 2

plus poet Henry Hughes writes me a letter about his own correspondence with Bukowski back from 1989 and 1991.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

On August 2nd, I’ll be reading in Tod Caviness’s Loose Lips reading series at L’il Indies.
On August 9th, I’ll be reading at THERE WILL BE FAN FICTION at The Gallery at Avalon Island.
Check out Henry Hughes’s website here.

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Episode 174: Vanessa Blakeslee!

10 Saturday Oct 2015

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David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, James Stewart III, Juventud, Vanessa Blakeslee

Episode 174 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 my occasional co-host Vanessa Blakeslee about her new novel, Juventud,

Photo by Ashley Inguanta.

plus James Stewart III writes about how reading David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest changed his life.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

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Come see Vanessa on book tour, including her upcoming appearance on October 18th in the Sunday Salon series with Orlando Ferrand, Anu Jindal, and Asali Solomon. The reading starts at 7 P.M. at Jimmy’s #43 at 43 E 7th Street, NY, NY.

Svetlana Alexievich has won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Elvis, the king cobra who has roamed Orlando for the last 5 weeks, has been found.
In turns out, Publix Supermarkets don’t recycle human skulls.

Episode 174 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 171: A Craft Discussion About Borges’s This Craft of Verse, with Vanessa Blakeslee!

19 Saturday Sep 2015

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Episode 171 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 about Jorge Luis Borges’s This Craft of Verse with Vanessa Blakeslee,

Photo by Ashley Inguanta.

plus Jared Silvia performs Peter Seger’s “Hobo’s Lullaby.”

TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

Check out the great perks for The Drunken Odyssey’s fundraiser here.

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Episode 171 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 155: A Craft Discussion About Longinus’s “On the Sublime,” with Vanessa Blakeslee!

30 Saturday May 2015

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Hunter S. Thompson, Jazz, LindaAnn Loschiavo, Little Women, Longinus, On the Sublime, rick moody, Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March, The Four Fingers of Death, Toni Morrison, Train Shots, Vanessa Blakeslee

Episode 155 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 about Longinus’s “On the Sublime,” with Vanessa Blakeslee,

Plus LindaAnn Loschiavo writes about how Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women changed her life.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

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New York Classical Theatre‘s production of The Taming of the Shrew, which is free, will wander its way across Central Park (Thurs through Sun, May 26 – June 28), Prospect Park (Tues. & Wed., June 23, 24, 30 & July 1), and Teardrop/Battery Park City (Wed, July 8, Fri through Sun, July 10, 11 & 12).

On June 14, come celebrate The Drunken Odyssey’s 3rd birthday on a monorail line pub crawl.

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Episode 155 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.