05 Saturday Jul 2014
Posted in Episode
Episode 107 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 the fiction writer Boris Fishman,
Photo by Rob Liguori
Plus Lisa Korthals shares her essay about reading Lolita as a child.
TEXTS DISCUSSED
Episode 107 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
17 Saturday May 2014
Posted in Craft of Fiction Writing, Episode
Episode 99 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 the fiction writer Kseniya Melnik,
Plus Matt Berman writes about Jean Craighead George’s My Side of the Mountain.
TEXTS DISCUSSED
Chipotle cups will become a venue for literature curated by Jonathon Saffron Foer.
St. Marks Bookshop is moving in June to a fab new space at 136 East 3rd Street.
The Drunken Odyssey will be holding a 100th episode party from 6-9 P.M. at Aku Aku in downtown Orlando. See the facebook event page here.
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Episode 99 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
13 Thursday Feb 2014
Posted in Episode, Erotic Literature, Poetry
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Creative Writing, Episode, Erotic Poetry, Erotic Prose, Jesse Bradley, John King, Michael Pierre, Naomi Butterfield, Rachel Kolman, Susan Lilley, Valentine's Day, Writing Podcast
Episode 85 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
This week, I present our first live show of the year, from our night of Erotic Poetry, as either a prelude or an antidote to Valentine’s Day, according to taste.
NOTES
The Heaven of Animals, the forthcoming collection from friend-of-the-show David James Poissant, is available for pre-order. Please support the launch of his book, which is wonderful reading.
17 Saturday Aug 2013
Posted in Blog Post, David James Poissant, Drinking, Episode
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Christopher Bolton, Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, David James Poissant, Jared Silvia, Pussy Riot, The Gallery at Avalon Island, Writing Podcast
Episode 62 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 answer some mail with my friend, David James Poissant,
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• Think about helping Beating Windward Press fund new art for its Doc Voodoo pulp fiction series. The swag is considerable, like this t-shirt.
• Members of Pussy Riot! are serving time in a Russian jail for the charge of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred.” What they did was perform “Mother of God, Drive Putin Away” in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. While these women are rightly venerated as warriors of free speech, and the phrase “Free Pussy Riot!” is now famous as a movement. What I learned this week, though, is that besides all of that, their music also happens to be fucking wild and should be respected by anyone who has an ear for punk.
Listen to their EP, Kill the Sexist.
Episode 62 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
10 Saturday Aug 2013
Posted in David Foster Wallace, Episode, Music, Postmodernism
Episode 61 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
This week, I interview my friend, the fiction writer Chad Benson, who also happens to be a rock musician called Quinn W. Shagbark,
plus Jesse Duthrie talks about John Barth’s The Floating Opera.
TEXTS DISCUSSED
NOTES
If you are writing in Denver, check out the Lighthouse Writer’s Workshop.
Read about Quinn W. Shagbark in Slate.
On Tuesday, August 13th, at Urban ReThink in downtown Orlando, I will read with
JOSEFINE KLOUGART,
DAN LAUER, &
DREW JOHNSON
in Jesse Bradley’s series, There Will Be Words, which was just named the best reading series in Orlando by Orlando Weekly.
Two days later, I will be reading an art-inspired piece in this event:
Episode 60 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
03 Saturday Aug 2013
Posted in Episode
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Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, Crime Fiction, Fiction, Gilbert King, History, Literature, Nonfiction, Pulitzer Prize, Spirituality, Writing Podcast
Episode 60 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
This week, I interview the Pulitzer Prize-winning non-fiction writer Gilbert King,
Plus Monty Joynes discusses coming across Talks and Dialogues by J. Krishnamurti
TEXTS DISCUSSED
NOTES
On Tuesday, August 13th, at Urban ReThink in downtown Orlando, I will read with
JOSEFINE KLOUGART,
DAN LAUER, &
DREW JOHNSON
in Jesse Bradley’s series, There Will Be Words, which was just named the best reading series in Orlando by Orlando Weekly.
Two days later, I will be reading an art-inspired piece in this event:
Episode 60 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
28 Sunday Jul 2013
Posted in Episode, Literature of Florida
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Alissa Nutting, Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, Erotic literature, Fiction, Literature, Short stories, Writing Podcast
Episode 59 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 the fiction writer Alissa Nutting,
Plus Graham Liddell talks about reading What is the What.
TEXTS DISCUSSED
NOTES
Margaret Atwood has penned a libretto about the life of Pauline Johnson, according to The Guardian.
Booksmatter has reposted Jonathan Lethem’s essay “The Squandered Promise of Science Fiction.”
This episode proudly featured music from The Intoxicators and Carlton Melton.
Episode 59 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
22 Monday Jul 2013
Posted in Episode, James Joyce, Memoir, Poetry, Sports
Episode 58 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 the poet Philip Raisor,
Plus Melissa Crandall brings us some Xmas in July!
TEXTS DISCUSSED
NOTES
J.K. Rowling is Robert Galbraith, the author of The Cuckoo’s Calling.
Episode 58 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
13 Saturday Jul 2013
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Burrow Press, Creative Writing, Disney, Fiction, John King, Literature, Poetry, Shakespeare, Writing Podcast
Episode 57 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 share a Functionally Literate event I participated in back in May with Monica Wendel and Philip Deaver.
This was an accidental DO reunion, since Monica was a guest on episodes 5 and 49, and Philip was a guest on episode 35. Alas, Enid Schumer could not attend.
BOOKS DISCUSSED
NOTES
See our kickstarter campaign to travel to Weeki Wachee Springs to interview Lu Vickers about Florida literature and the world famous Weeki Wachee mermaids. We reached our goal on day 1, but we welcome your continued contributions to keep the show going strong!
A Drunken Odyssey Video Exclusive: Carolyn Forché Reading & Talk at UCF, Feb. 25, 2013
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Episode 57 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
04 Thursday Jul 2013
Posted in Craft of Fiction Writing, Episode, Memoir, Music, Postmodernism, Sports
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Chuck Klosterman, Cinema, Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, David Foster Wallace, John King, Literature, Postmodernism, Sports, stephen king, Writing Podcast
Episode 56 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 the essayist and novelist Chuck Klosterman,
Plus John McCaffrey discusses Leo Durocher’s Nice Guys Finish Last.
BOOKS DISCUSSED
NOTES
On July 9th, Mattew Peters will read prose at There Will be Words in Downtown Orlando.
See our kickstarter campaign to travel to Weeki Wachee Springs to interview Lu Vickers about Florida literature and the world famous Weeki Wachee mermaids. We reached our goal on day 1, but we welcome your continued contributions to keep the show going strong!
The Drunken Odyssey Deeply Recommends
When I complained that Britney Spears was in Esquire back in the early paleolithic days of 2004, I confess I didn’t dwell sufficiently on what Chuck Klosteman’s article said about her cognitive dissonance, although his words were competing with Britney Spears’s anatomy at the time.
On May 14th, 1988, Atlantic Records held a 40th Anniversary Concert during which, in my infallible opinion, and it pained me to say this, Debbie Gibson outplayed Led Zeppelin. Want to disagree? Watch the footage:
Debbie Gibson
Led Zeppelin
For the record, Jason Bonham was drumming, although I don’t this Hindenburg of a performance can be blamed on him.
According to a Times profile, Alice Munro is retiring.
According to The Guardian, Neil Gaiman is writing a new Sandman series.
Episode 56 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
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