Drinks with Tony

Tim McLoughlin is the author of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms: Stories and Essays on Akashic Books. He was a peace officer for three decades in the New York City criminal justice system. We chat crime in NYC in the 1980s, how to transport prisoners to and from court hearings, and how we both got into Penthouse magazine.

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.

Kim Dower is the author of I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom: Poems on Motherhood.

Always a joy to talk with, Kim and I discuss joy, tragedy, visiting Baudelaire’s grave, Hollywood Forever, writing prompts, and what happens when 8th graders debate your poetry.

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.

Jenny Bitner is the author of Here is a Game We Could Play: A Novel.

We chat aliens, Amish, exposure therapy for OCD, mental health and writers, self marriage, and the secret sauce of becoming a big time famous author.

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.

Madhushree Ghosh is the author of Khabaar, An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Family. We chat love, divorce, Indian authors, and food.

I’m teaching a free online creative writing workshop with the Los Angeles Public Library on April 13th at 6pm, go to LAPL.org to join us.

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.

Andrew Cotto is the author of Pasta Mike: A Story of Friendship and Loss.

Book Tony to help you with your novel or screenplay, whether in the idea stage or polishing up a draft to start showing around, go to www.tonydushane.com for more information.

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.

Peter Stamm is the author of It’s Getting Dark: Stories, translated from German by Michael Hofmann. We chat translations, sensitivity editors, and an author who once told him he isn’t considered a writer until he has published seven books.

Book Tony to help you with your novel or screenplay, go to www.tonydushane.com for more information.

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.

Christy Alexander Hallberg is the author of Searching for Jimmy Page. She lives in North Carolina and we talk all things death, writing, magic, Led Zeppelin, meeting Joan Jett in 1982, The Exorcist, and how to leave the Methodist Church with minimal battle wounds.

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.

Lauren Dollie Duke is the author of Sh!thouse: A Memoir. She’s an expert of the nervous system and how to navigate trauma as well as a seasoned yoga instructor.

Take Tony’s FREE creative writing workshop through the Los Angeles Public Library on March 16th at 6pm via Zoom.

The highlights of this episode include:

Why social media has created crappy yoga teachers

How to short circuit the brains of sensitivity editors 

When you change your life and it challenges those around you.

Authenticity is the key word for everything.

How our nervous systems communicate with each other.

How to deal with trauma.

What happens when you write the truth about your family in a book.

To swear or not to swear in a book title?

Tony DuShane is the author and screenwriter of Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk. He teaches screenwriting at UCLA Ext. and since there was a schedule mixup with an author for episode 181, Tony decided to just do a show without a guest.

Book Tony to help you with your novel or screenplay, go to www.tonydushane.com for more information.

Take Tony’s FREE creative writing workshop through the Los Angeles Public Library on March 16th at 6pm via Zoom.

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.

Lynn Hightower is the author of The Enlightenment Project. She teaches at UCLA Ext. (with me) and lives in Kentucky. We talk demons, exorcism, and puppies, because every exorcism discussion deserves puppies.

For novel and screenplay development go to www.tonydushane.com to schedule a time.

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.