Drinks with Tony

Shawna Kenney is the author of I was a Teenage Dominatrix and co-author of Live at the Safari Club. She teaches at UCLA Extension and co-runs a writing retreat in Denmark called Hamlet’s Hideaway. She’s married to Rich loves to talk about Star Wars.

Steve Kilbey is the lead singer of The Church. This interview is from the DwT archives. Known for their album Starfish and the hit Under the Milky Way, The Church has put out a ton of records and are still recording and playing live. Dig into their collection, there are some hidden gems out there.

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Ben Loory is the author of Tales of Falling and Flying, Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day, and The Baseball Player and the Walrus. He has never watched the game show $10,000 Pyramid, which makes him very cool. See the photo below of his wall of index cards that prompted the references to the game show.

Daniel Clowes is the author and screenwriter of Ghost World and Art School Confidential. Both films were directed by Terry Zwigoff. This interview is from the DwT archives circa 2006. Clowes also wrote Wilson, starring Woody Harrelson, which came out a couple of years ago.

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David Ulin is the author of The Lost Art of Reading: Books and Resistance in a Troubled Time and Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles. He edited the Books section of the Los Angeles Times from 2005 – 2010. His last name is pronounced you-lin.

Wim Wenders is the director of Wings of Desire and Buena Vista Social Club. This interview from the DwT archives was taped in 2005. Check out the restored print of Wings of Desire on Sunday at The Egyptian in Hollywood.

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Matthew Stokoe is the author of Cows, High Life, Empty Mile, and Colony of Whores. We connected years ago when I ran CherryBleeds.com, but this was our first meeting in person because he lives far away, or, from his POV I live far away. And, he brought his lovely wife Elizabeth, and we chatted in Larchmont Village.

Steve Almond is the author of (Not That You Asked): Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions. He came on Drinks with Tony in 2008 when promoting that book. His other books include Bad Stories and Against Football.

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Seth Greenland is the author of The Hazards of Good Fortune. His other books include The Bones, The Angry Buddhist, and I Regret Everything. Greenland has also worked in TV and film on shows like Big Love and Arli$$. His first appearance on Drinks with Tony was in 2005 when we were young, innocent fellas.

Jon Ronson is the author of So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed. His other books include The Psychopath Test, and Men Who Stare At Goats, which was later made into a film starring George Clooney.

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Alan Black is the author of Kick The Balls and co-author of The Glorious World Cup. He runs The Edinburgh Castle, a pub in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District that tends to attract literary scumbags like myself and the fella below.

Irvine Welsh is the author of Trainspotting and The Acid House. This interview from the archives is from 2006 when he was in San Francisco promoting The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs. This was his first of several appearances on the show.

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Glen David Gold is the author of I Will Be Complete and Carter Beats the Devil. Our chat includes San Francisco vs. Los Angeles, punk rock, X, stalking John Doe, David Blaine, and how to find some sort of happiness.

Kevin Smith is the writer and director of Clerks, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and is an all out indie film rock star from the school of the ’90s. This interview is from the Drinks with Tony archives when he was promoting Clerks II. Audio is pulled from the radio station’s mp3 archive and remember it was 2006, and it was amazing quality at the time kids.

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Liska Jacobs is the author of Catalina. It’s a really good book and she’s a kick to hang out with. We chat about writing amazing books, craft, misconceptions of Los Angeles, and more.

Chelsea Handler hosted a show called Chelsea Lately. She has also written books. I caught up with her at Vesuvio in San Francisco and we chatted about My Horizontal Life. This interview is from the Drinks with Tony archives.

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Mark Haskell Smith is the author of Blown, Heart Of Dankness, Naked at Lunch, Salty and more. He’s a professor at UC Riverside’s Low Residency MFA program and just a dang fun fella.

Larry Clark is a filmmaker and photographer. His films include Kids and Wassup Rockers.This interview is from the Drinks with Tony archives.

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