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In this week's episode, John speaks with the poet Henry Hughes about poetry, fishing, patience, creativity, Charles Bukowski, and other matters of li…
1 day, 19 hours ago
714: Lara Egger!
In this week's episode, John speaks with the poet Lara Egger about her new book, Flop Era. Other topics covered: the jostling of syntax, the long lea…
1 week, 1 day ago
713: Dave Housley!
In this week's episode, John speaks with fiction writer and editor Dave Housley about the joys of using writing prompts, the problem-solving of writi…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
712: A Discussion of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, with Rachael Tillman!
In this week's show, Rachael Tillman and I discuss The Bell Jar, in part 3 of our series on Sylvia Plath.
If you are keen, check out the previous ins…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
711: A Discussion of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, with Sophia Ferrara!
Sophia Ferrara returns to the secret HQ of TDO to chat about the pleasure-filled dystopia of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, while John freaks out a…
2 months ago
710: A Discussion of William Harrison's Rollerball (with Sophia Ferrara)!
In #710, Sophia Ferrara returns to the secret HQ of TDO to chat about the dystopia of Rollerball, as imagined in the film and the short story, which …
2 months, 1 week ago
709: Philip Schultz!
In this week's show, John speaks with the poet Philip Schultz about his wonderful new poetry collection, Enormous Morning. We discuss the self-critic…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
708: Felicia Day!
In this week's show, John speaks with the writer and actor, Felicia Day about her extraordinary page-turner of a graphic novel, The Lost Daughter of …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
707: Shawn Welcome!
In this week's show, the poet Shawn Welcome and I talk about how to love poetry, how to gather together our literary communities, and our beloved cit…
3 months ago
706: Richard Blanco!
On this week's program, I catch up with the amazing Richard Blanco about his recent collected poems, Homeland of my Body, a book sandwiched with two …
3 months, 1 week ago