Drinks with Tony

Carol Tyler is an American painter, educator, comedian, and eleven-time Eisner Award-nominated cartoonist known for her autobiographical comics. Her latest book is The Ephemerata: Shaping the Exquisite Nature of Grief.

Registration for my Screenplay Holiday Workshop is open, work on a screenplay during the holiday break.

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.

Darrin Doyle is the author of The Dark Will End The Dark: Short Stories.

We chat great cities of the mid-west, classic novels and short stories, working with small presses versus the large publishers, and so much more.

Register for my intensive 10-Day Screenwriting Outline Workshop Dec 22 – Jan 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.

We chat the complexity of father and son relationships, how writing is a process more than an outcome, why writing memoirs is not therapeutic, family members threatening to sue him for the book, and so much more.

Register for my intensive 10-Day Screenwriting Outline Workshop Dec 22 – Jan 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.

Rob Grant is the writer and director of This Too Shall Pass coming out October 24, 2025.

It’s a superb coming-of-age film set in the 1980s featuring a Mormon protagonist trying to figure out love and life as a teenager.

Register for my intensive 10-Day Screenwriting Outline Workshop Dec 22 – Jan 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.

H. Lee Barnes is the author of Emerald City Blues: A Novel.

10-Day Screenwriting Outline Workshop is open for registration for Dec 22 – Jan 2, Click here to register.

Lee and I discuss why people lie, combat in Vietnam, dating advice for every generation, 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 on Pirate Cat Radio.

Stefanie Leder is the author of Love, Coffee & Revolution: A Novel. We discuss how she became a TV writer and showrunner, how she wrote this debut novel 20 years ago and it finally came out, how her politics have shifted over time, 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 and Friday at 11am on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat Radio.

She posted photos for many years under the title Caitlin Walks At Night. On this episode we talk about some of her experiences in Montevideo, Serbia, Istanbul, Porto, Barcelona, Katmandu, and more.

Caitlin’s an inspiration to take the risky path, to walk on foreign soil alone, to stick it out even when our brains take us to dark places, and god-dang-it if that’s the case, just take a walk in the middle of the night.

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 and Friday at 11am on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat Radio.

Carlo Rotella is the author of What Can I Get Out Of This? – Teaching and Learning in a Classroom Full of Skeptics.

We discuss his optimism for college students engaged in reading novels, why many of his students hate reading House Of Mirth and what they can learn from that, how pulp novels shaped his younger reader self, and so much more.

Register is open for my novel writing class The Novel Approach Workshop with Tony DuShane starting on Sept. 19.

Subscribe to MAH SUBSTACKY for more book news, storytelling breakdowns as well as some nervous breakdowns. 

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 and Friday at 11am on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat Radio.

I caught up with Todd Solondz in San Francisco in 2004 when he was promoting Palindromes. I caught up with Larry Clark when he was promoting Wassup Rockers in 2005. These are two of my favorite interviews from the Drinks with Tony archives. I hope you enjoy.

Register for my novel writing class The Novel Approach Workshop with Tony DuShane starting on Sept. 19.

Subscribe to MAH SUBSTACKY for more book news, storytelling breakdowns as well as some nervous breakdowns. 

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 and Friday at 11am on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat Radio.

Terry Zwigoff is a great American filmmaker. Many of you know him for Bad Santa, but in 2006 he released a film called Art School Confidential and I had him on Drinks with Tony, yes, 19 years ago.

Come with me down memory lane as I recall the old journalism ways of watching films and how directors had to do promotion regionally in those years, somehow that links to when someone stage dived on me at a Fleshies show, why I sound like a fool in 2006, but we should all be fools or nothing will ever get created, so dive into your inner fool, and so much more.

Register for my novel writing class The Novel Approach Workshop with Tony DuShane starting on Sept. 19.

Subscribe to MAH SUBSTACKY for more book news, storytelling breakdowns as well as some nervous breakdowns. 

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 and Friday at 11am on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat Radio.