Podcast Episodes

A Roundtable Discussion of Stephen King

Episode 337

In this week's episode, I am joined by Dale Lucas, Tom Lucas, and Elise McKenna for a deep dive into Stephen King's 1981 treatise on the horror genre…

7 years, 11 months ago

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336: Sean M. Conrey!

Episode 336

In this week's episode, I talk to the poet Sean Conrey about poetry, religion, trees, and our long ago time at Purdue University.

8 years ago

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335: Jane Ridgeway!

In this week's episode, I talk to fiction writer Jane Ridgeway about our stories and characters choosing us instead of the other way around, the deli…

8 years ago

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334: Ben Gwin!

In this week's episode, I talk to novelist Ben Gwin about postmodern satire, addiction, whether MFAs ruin or sustain writers, and for some reason I i…

8 years ago

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333: Peter Kuper!

Episode 333

In this week's episode, I talk to Peter Kuper about Kafka, the remarkable art form of comic books, the indie comic book scene in the late 1980s, Spy …

8 years ago

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332: A Craft Discussion of Chuck Palahniuk's Stranger Than Fiction

Episode 332

Episode 332 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to downlo…

8 years, 1 month ago

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331: A Celebration of Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums

Episode 331

In this week's episode, I host a party in honor of the 60th anniversary of the publication go my favorite Jack Kerouac work, The Dharma Bums.

8 years, 1 month ago

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330: Kurt Vonnegut Roundtable!

In this week's episode, I am joined by Chris Lafave, Erik Deckers, and David James Poissant for a discussion of Kurt Vonnegut.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOT…

8 years, 1 month ago

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329: Blair Hurley!

Episode 329

In this week's episode, I chat with novelist Blair Hurley about our experiences in NYU's MFA program, how to plot novels, religion, and how to really…

8 years, 1 month ago

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328: Dale Lucas!

This week, I interview Dale Lucas, the author of the Fifth Wardand Doc Voodooseries of novels about exploring ethics in long-form narrative, world-bu…

8 years, 2 months ago

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