Vanessa Blakeslee
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Episode 174: 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, plus James Stewart III writes about how reading David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest changed his life. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Come Continue reading
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Episode 171: A Craft Discussion About Borges’s This Craft of Verse, with Vanessa Blakeslee!
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, plus Jared Silvia performs Peter Seger’s “Hobo’s Lullaby.” TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Check out the great perks for The Continue reading
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Episode 155: A Craft Discussion About Longinus’s “On the Sublime,” with 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 NOTES New York Classical Theatre‘s production of The Continue reading
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Episode 146: A Roundtable Discussion of MFA vs. NYC
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, Plus J. Bradley reads a selection from his Continue reading
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Episode 135: A Craft Discussion About James Wood’s How Fiction Works, with Vanessa Blakeslee!
Episode 135 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 James Wood’s How Fiction Works with Vanessa Blakeslee, Plus Amy Penne writes about how David Foster Wallace’s Consider the Lobster and Other Essays changed her life. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES On Tuesday, Continue reading
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Episode 112: A Craft Discussion About Aristotle’s Poetics, with 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, Plus Kevin Bray writes about reading John Gardner’s On Becoming a Novelist. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES This new project–discussing Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #7: Train Shots
Buzzed Books #7 by Mark Pursell Vanessa Blakeslee’s Train Shots In “Princess of Pop”, the eighth of eleven stories that comprise Vanessa Blakeslee’s debut collectionTrain Shots, Blakeslee gives a voice to one of our most exposed yet tight-lipped pop culture titans: Britney Spears. In a gutsy move that could have easily backfired or lent itself Continue reading
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Episode 87: Vanessa Blakeslee!
Episode 87 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 fiction writer Vanessa Blakeslee, And Anthony Seidman writes about James Thompson’s The City of Dreadful Night. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES If you live in NYC, check out this wonderful Continue reading
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