This episode of Drinks With has Timshel Matheny sitting down to dinner in Nashville with best-selling novelist, Joshua Ferris. Over the course of a half an hour, they manage to go dig deeper into the anatomy of writing than any episode in the series yet. They chat about Jason Isbell, Amazon Prime, social media, and Ferris offers some first-hand insights on how valuable all writing time is, whether or not you are able to see any immediate result from the time you spend working at it.

The sixth Drinks With podcast has Skip and Timshel Matheny of the band Roman Candle, backstage at Marathon Music works in Nashville talking with Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys / Last of the Shadow Puppets.

They chat about what went into both the songwriting and recording of their globally acclaimed record A.M. as well as the differences between bourbon and tequila, Lou Reed's Transformer, and trying to make drum sounds that sound like 60's technicolor. They also introduce a new segment of Drinks With called "Listening Room," where they ask which songs or records were particularly influential to an artist's writing process.

For more on this episode, check out the show notes at http://www.drinkswith.net/portfolio/podcast-ep-6-arctic-monkeys/

The fifth Drinks With Podcast has Timshel and Skip Matheny of the band Roman Candle talking with UK band Everything Everything in their tour bus before a show at Mercy Lounge in Nashville.

They talk about recording their recent record, "Get to Heaven", the magic of cheap, forgotten keyboards, and how your first stupid idea still rises to the top after spending a year of eight-hour days trying to replace it. For more on this episode, click here.

On this episode of Drinks With, Skip and Timshel have the opportunity to sit down at a table across from Dolly Parton. It's 7am at her manager's office and she has already done an hour's worth of interviews by the time she walks through the door in her full Dolly glory. She talks about how her songwriting process has stayed the same since she wrote her first song in 1951 (as a 5-year-old). She talks about Whitney Houston, Emmylou Harris, Porter Wagoner, and buying her first Otis Redding records. Just hearing her conversational voice is worth the price of admission. The drink this week is a (recently resurrected) white wine spritzer. For more on this episode, click here.

The third Drinks With Podcast has Timshel and Skip Matheny of the band Roman Candle talking with David Sedaris in his hotel room at The Hermitage Hotel in Nashville.

They talk about David's most recent book, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, how to take notes without someone noticing, David's discovery of a "bra-off-policy", the uselessness of MFA programs, and what it's like to try write in a hotel breakfast room.

They also go into detail discussing David's elaborate journaling habits and how he still looks for his "lead story" every morning as a launching point for all of his writing. For more on this episode, click here.

The second Drinks With podcast has Skip and Timshel Matheny of the band Roman Candle, in a park in downtown Atlanta, GA talking with Belle and Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch.

They chat about Murdoch's film "God Help the Girl," the brilliance of Morrissey, G.K. Chesterton's poetry, and the Eurovision song contest. They also go into detail discussing Belle and Sebastian's writing process and how it has developed over the years, leading up to their most recent record "Girls in Peacetime want to Dance."

The drink of the week (as chosen by Stuart) is Makers and Coke. For more on this episode, click here.

In the first Drinks With podcast, Skip and Timshel Matheny catch up with Tame Impala's Kevin Parker to talk about his writing and recording process, Negroni's, cheap musical gear, how his lyrics have changed, and Annie Lennox. For more on this episode, click here.