Drinks with Tony

From the author of Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk comes Tony DuShane’s Book Smash.

It’s my rundown on my favorite books of the year, my complaints about society and some guests, a guide to improving your focus, yammering about Alexandre Dumas, Michel Houllebecq, Henry Miller, Elfriede Jelinek, Marcel Proust, Sayaka Murata, Andrew Miller, Alexander Boldizar, Thomas Perry, Mark Haskell Smith, and more.

Join us for Read Along with Tony our December book is

Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9FM, KPCR-LP, Los Gatos.

David Leo Rice is the author of The Berlin Wall: A Novel.

We discuss Tim O’Brien’s Short Story “On the Rainy River”, Flo from the Progressive commercials and how to find authenticity as an artist, John Travolta from Look Who’s Talking to Pulp Fiction, Knut Hamsun and traveling through Norway, snd so much more.

November 2024 – Read Along with Tony

December 2024 – Read Along with Tony

Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9FM, KPCR-LP, Los Gatos.

Diego Gerard Morrison is the author of Pages of Mourning.

We chat the ups and downs of translating novels, the literary scene in Mexico City, how living on a remote farm as a kid made him an insatiable reader, and so much more.

November 2024 – Read Along with Tony

Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9FM, KPCR-LP, Los Gatos.

Jean-Paul L. Garnier is the author of Cardboard Spaceship. He also owns Space Cowboy Books in Joshua Tree.

We talk Czech writers, starting a bookstore and publishing company, why living in the desert reminds you of how insignificant we are in the universe, how quantum physics can help you find god, and so much more.

Read Along with Tony DuShane

Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9FM, KPCR-LP, Los Gatos.

Sacha Mardou is the author of Past Tense: Facing Family Secrets and Finding Myself in Therapy, A Graphic Memoir.

We discuss growing up in crazy families and religions, Internal Family Systems therapy, the violence porn of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Pillowgate, and so much more….it’s loads of laughs and a wail of weeping.

Read Along with Tony DuShane

Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9FM, KPCR-LP, Los Gatos.

Kes Trester is the author of To The Nines, Book 3 of The Nine series.

We discuss how to safely chat with grocery clerks about suicidal thoughts, how to find a husband at Hollywood parties, to structure or not structure a novel, and so much more.

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Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM in Los Gatos and 101.9 FM in Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat Radio, KPCR-LP.

Gabriel Hart is the author of On High At Red Tide. He’s also the lead singer of Jail Weddings and The Starvations.

October 5th is the first Drinks with Tony Bookclub, we’re reading Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age and we’ll discuss the book as well as do a writing exercise.

October 3rd join Gabriel Hart for his Los Angeles release event for his novel at Stories bookstore and cafe in Echo Park.

On this episode we discuss how time is more important than money, the trap of corporate America, how to truly live the writer’s life, the importance of editors and also walking away from your story for a bit, the grief and heartache of book releases, and so much more.

Drinks with Tony also airs every Thursday night at 6pm on 92.9FM KPCR, Los Gatos and 101.3FM KMRT-LP, Santa Cruz.

Krystal Kenney is the author of Paris, A Life Less Ordinary: A Memoir.

We discuss tourist scams of Paris, where are the best neighborhoods, how Krystal moved to Paris from Baltimore without an EU citizenship, and so much more.

Remember to join the Drinks with Tony Book Club, this month we’ll discuss Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age by Bohumil Hrabal on October 5, 2024.

Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM in Los Gatos and 101.9 FM in Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat Radio, KPCR-LP.

Marianne Leone is the author of Five-Dog Epiphany: A Memoir.

Marianne is an actor you may know from shows like The Sopranos. Her book tackles the grief of losing her son with her husband actor Chris Cooper and how their son Jesse brought dogs into their lives.

We discuss how her an her husband have stayed together for 41 years, when they met in acting school exactly how their romance started, her push for Chris to take the groundbreaking part in American Beauty, her activism to create inclusive classrooms for the quadriplegic and how that manifested a healthy social circle for her son Jesse and his friends before he died, and so much more.

The Drinks with Tony bookclub starts this month. We’re reading Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age by Bohumil Hrabal. Then reserve your spot for our zoom discussion on October 5th at 9AM Pacific / 12PM Eastern. We’ll take a deep dive into the craft and story of the novel.

Along with Drinks with Tony bookclub I’m bringing back Nick Cave Monday. All can be found at my substack: dushane.substack.com, subscribe now.

Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM in Los Gatos and 101.9 FM in Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat Radio, KPCR-LP.