Episode 412: A Discussion of Douglas Glover’s The Erotics of Restraint, with Vanessa Blakeslee!

28 Saturday Mar 2020

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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 on time and plot construction, as seen the works of Alice Munro, Jane Austen, Ernest Hemingway, and others.

Photo by Shawn McKee.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

The Erotics of Restraint

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This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at Scribophile.

TDO Listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to register for a basic account, go here while still logged in to upgrade the account with the discount.

If you are looking for a happier view than your own window yet again, try my scenic views of Walt Disney World playlist.

Check out my adventure novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

And check out Vanessa’s books, too.

Episode 408: A Discussion of Paul Fussell’s Class, with Vanessa Blakeslee!

29 Saturday Feb 2020

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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 clearly not a craft book, a sociological understanding of the American class system can add layers to your characterization, or so John found when he discovered this gem back in the early 1990s. Paul Fussell (1924-2012) possessed a gorgeously sardonic wit when not hiding in academia.

Someday John will own a sailboat, and become truly, deeply, fatally lost, and happy.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Paul Fussell Class Paul Fussell BAD Image result for the official preppy handbook Fussell Thank God

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This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at Scribophile.

TDO Listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to register for a basic account, go here while still logged in to upgrade the account with the discount.

Episode 386: A Craft Discussion of Mystery and Manners, with Vanessa Blakeslee and Lisa Roney!

28 Saturday Sep 2019

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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.

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Mysteries and Manners Flannery

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This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at Scribophile.

TDO Listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to register for a basic account, go here while still logged in to upgrade the account with the discount.

Check out my literary adventure novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

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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

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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.

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

10 Saturday Mar 2018

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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,”

woolf-john-and-vanessa

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

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Mr. Kim (Kindle Single) mr-kim

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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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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.

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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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