Drinks with Tony

Kirk Ellis is the author of They Kill People: Bonnie and Clyde, a Hollywood Revolution, and America’s Obsession with Guns and Outlaws.

We chat film, mythology, intimate relationships with our characters, and his series biopics of Benjamin Franklin starring Michael Douglas and John Adams starring Paul Giamatti.

Feb 4th @ 6pm: Tony’s Free Creative Writing Workshop at Los Feliz Library on 1874 Hillhurst Ave., Los Angeles, just show up.

Subscribe to DuShane.substack.com and listen to Drinks with Tony on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4pm on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Santa Cruz.

Grant Faulkner is the co-author of Something Out There In the Distance.

We chat the open road of Nevada and Arizona, the religion of storytelling, how much money we make writing books, and so much more.

Feb 4th @ 6pm: Tony’s Free Creative Writing Workshop at Los Feliz Library on 1874 Hillhurst Ave., Los Angeles, just show up.

Subscribe to DuShane.substack.com and listen to Drinks with Tony on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4pm on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Santa Cruz.

Joe Clifford and Barry Bunin join me to discuss their book Inside CDD Vault.

We chat drugs, Silicon Valley, advances with psychedelics, and so much more.

Subscribe to DuShane.substack.com and listen to Drinks with Tony on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4pm on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Santa Cruz.

Jaime Parker Stickle is the author of Vicious Cycle, her debut novel.

We chat the fun of colon cancer screenings, how I shouldn’t be a misogynist anymore, life of marriage and kids, how every date needs proof of no STDs even before the first kiss, and so much more.

Subscribe to DuShane.substack.com and listen to Drinks with Tony on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4pm on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Santa Cruz.

Tony DuShane chats from his kitchen about the best books of 2025, Paris, getting over agoraphobia, the human condition, and finding out mom has stage 4 cancer before taping, which I almost canceled and just did a repeat, but I felt the urgency to do the show anyway.

It’s a sad and beautiful world.

Subscribe to DuShane.substack.com and listen to Drinks with Tony on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4pm on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Santa Cruz.

Gail Butensky is the co-author of Something out There in the Distance where she contributes her photography.

Known for her years documenting the music scenes in the 1980s and 1990s in NYC, San Francisco, Chicago and beyond, we chat how she got into photography, working with Steve Albini, San Francisco Mission District of the 1990s, and so much more.

The photo in the graphic is hers from a Naked Raygun show.

Subscribe to DuShane.substack.com and listen to Drinks with Tony on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4pm on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Santa Cruz

Cara Black is the author of Huguette. She’s also the author of 21 novels in her Aimée Leduc series, all set in Paris.

We talk Paris, and what else is there to talk about after the subject of Paris? We talk writing and such, but seriously, we talk a lot about Paris since Cara is the queen guru of Paris.

Register for my December Screenwriting Workshop, the first annual holiday break writing intensive, join us December 22 – January 2.

Subscribe to DuShane.substack.com and listen to Drinks with Tony on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4pm on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Santa Cruz

Andrew Rubin is the author of Hell or High Winter: A Novel.

We chat his debut novel, the scaries of dating in Los Angeles, sharing a one bedroom in NYC with a bunch of roommates, why writing novels and screenplays gives us more tools for each craft, and so much more.

Register for my December Screenwriting Workshop, the first annual holiday break writing intensive, join us December 22 – January 2.

Subscribe to DuShane.substack.com and listen to Drinks with Tony on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4pm on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Sa

Tod Goldberg is the author of Only Way Out: A Novel.

We chat the span of his literary career, our admiration for authors like Joe Loya, and how to celebrate Christmas and Hanukkah and get away with it.

Register for my December Screenwriting Workshop, the first annual holiday break writing intensive, join us December 22 – January 2.

Subscribe to DuShane.substack.com and listen to Drinks with Tony on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4pm on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat Radio.

Chip Jacobs is the author of Later Days: A Novel.

We chat about NDEs, the afterlife, God, when we made fools of ourselves in front of celebrities, and so much more.

Only SIX spots in my December Screenwriting Workshop, the first annual holiday break writing intensive, join us.

Subscribe to DuShane.substack.com and listen to Drinks with Tony on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4pm on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat Radio.