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  • A. M. Homes #209

    A. M. Homes is the author of The Unfolding.

    We chat:

    Writing a novel is messy.
    Her time writing for the tv series The L Word.
    Intimacy coordinators on film sets.
    Interacting with supernatural beings.
    All ideas are bad and everything’s been done before.

    …and so much more.

    Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 101.9 FM, KPCR, Santa Cruz.

    51 min
  • Patrick O’Neil #208

    Patrick O’Neil is the author of Anarchy At The Circle K: On The Road With Dead Kennedys, TSOL, Flipper, Subhumans and… Heroin.

    Patrick and I discuss:

    Infinite Jest sucks.

    Punk rock, Mabuhay Gardens 1979.
    Doing time in San Quentin.
    Why books should be judged books by their covers.
    …..And so much more.

    Join me at Los Feliz Library Branch on Weds, Sept 14th at 6pm for a free creative writing workshop. Go to LAPL.org for more information, or just show up @ 1874 Hillhurst Ave.

    Patrick O’Neil reads Sept. 11th at 7pm at Stories in Echo Park.

    Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 101.9 FM, KPCR, Santa Cruz.

    1 hr 1 min
  • Pete Hsu #207

    Pete Hsu is the author of If I Were The Ocean I’d Carry You Home.

    We chat:

    The problems of writing the novel.
    His conversion to evangelical christianity.
    Why he left the religion.
    ….and how Grapes of Wrath ends with a man sucking on a woman’s breast.

    Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 101.9 FM, KPCR, Santa Cruz.

    55 min
  • Paula Priamos #206

    Paula Priamos is the author of Appraise Her.

    We chat:

    Tupac’s penis.
    Why we have to push the boundaries as writers.
    Duran Duran and Billy Idol.
    How complaining about your husband keeps a marriage together.
    …and so much more….

    Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 101.9 FM, KPCR, Santa Cruz.

    1 hr
  • Rebekah Anderson #205

    Rebekah Anderson is the author of The Grand Promise.

    We chat:

    The secret magic of how to write a novel.
    Growing up in Seattle.
    The literary community in Paris.
    Anne Heche.
    Why kids should throw shit at cars.
    And some much more….

    Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 101.9 FM, KPCR, Santa Cruz.

    1 hr
  • Bruce Ferber #204

    Bruce Ferber is the author of I Buried Paul.

    We discuss:

    * Campaigning for Howard Dean
    * Our mutual hatred for influencers
    * How Paul’s therapist helped him shift from TV to novel writing
    * The prison dog adoption program
    **** And so much more.

    On August 27th at 2pm see Bruce discuss his novel at Dynasty Typewriter in Los Angeles with three other authors, go to dynastytypewriter.com

    Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 101.9 FM, KPCR, Santa Cruz.

    54 min
  • Annabelle Gurwitch – #203

    Annabelle Gurwitch is the author of You’re Leaving When? Adventures in Downward Mobility.

    We discuss:

    * Vibrators and dry vaginas.
    * Emailing book reviewers who suck.
    * Getting fired from a Woody Allen project.
    * Touring with a metal band doing merch.
    * And, so much more.

    Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 101.9 FM, KPCR, Santa Cruz.

    58 min
  • Liska Jacobs #202

    Liska Jacobs is the author of The Pink Hotel. If you’re in Los Angeles, check out her event at Book Soup on Friday.

    Liska and I chat:

    * Writing in Mexico and Columbia.
    * The lightness and darkness of Los Angeles.
    * Martha Stewart’s Peacocks.
    * How to beat capitalism.
    * Oh yeah, and how to write a great novel, cigarettes included.

    Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 101.9 FM, KPCR, Santa Cruz.

    59 min
  • Kevin Sampsell #201

    Kevin Sampsell is the author of I Made an Accident, a book of his collages, out now on Clash Books. He’s also a memoirist and novelist and runs Future Tense Press.

    We discuss:

    My adolescent crush of Susan day.
    What to do when your’e creatively blocked.
    Babes in Toyland and Beat Happening
    Friends who kill themselves and how to write about it.

    Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 101.9 FM, KPCR, Santa Cruz.

    1 hr 4 min
  • Larissa Pham #200

    Larissa Pham is the author of Pop Song: Adventures in Art and Intimacy.

    Larissa and I talk about:

    * Being a writer in Brooklyn
    * Buddhism
    * Writing a novel compared to memoir
    * The actual time it takes to write a book
    * The reason she wouldn’t grade my show when all I wanted was a B- 

    Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 101.9 FM, KPCR, Santa Cruz.

    1 hr

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Tony DuShane chats with authors and storytellers. Started in 2002, Drinks with Tony has aired on KFJC, Pirate Cat Radio, and Radio Valencia. DuShane is the author and screenwriter of Confessions of a…