Drinks with Tony: Recent Episodes
Tony DuShane
Tony DuShane chats with authors and storytellers. Listen every Thursday night at 6pm on 101.9FM, KPCR, Santa Cruz or wherever you receive your podcasts.
DuShane is the author and screenwriter of Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk, directed by Eric Stoltz, available on Amazon Prime.
Tony also teaches screenwriting at UCLA Extension and coaches authors and screenwriters.
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Romie Stott is the author of Nothing In The Basement: A Horror Novel.
We discuss 48 hours film competitions, discovery of Alexander Dumas, her process for coming up with comp titles when querying a novel, and so much more.
Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4 p.m. on 92.9FM Los Gatos, 101.9FM Santa Cruz, and 91.1FM Portland on Pirate Cat Radio.
K. S. Haddock is the author of Imagine My Surprise!
We talk about his musicals at San Francisco Fringe Fest, failed novels, novels that succeeded, cage fighting, and so much more.
Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4 p.m. on 92.9FM Los Gatos, 101.9FM Santa Cruz, and 91.1FM Portland on Pirate Cat Radio.
Justin Phillips is the author of American Limoncillo.
We chat about his years in the Navy in Naples, Italy … where his novel is also based, how screenwriting informed his novel, his run-ins with the mafia, and so much more.
Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4 p.m. on 92.9FM Los Gatos, 101.9FM Santa Cruz, and 91.1FM Portland on Pirate Cat Radio.
Lee Upton is the author of The Withers.
We chat all things writing, about all the new and funky book genres of the publishing industry, how to come up with character names, and so much more.
Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4 p.m. on 92.9FM Los Gatos, 101.9FM Santa Cruz, and 91.1FM Portland on Pirate Cat Radio.
Adam Steiner is the author of Darker with the Dawn: Nick Cave’s Songs of Love and Death.
Bless his heart to give me any excuse to deep dive into Nick Cave. We talk about how we found our way to Nick’s work in different manners and different times, Adam’s approach to writing and rewriting the biography, and what records from Nick’s back catalogue are fantastic and others that aren’t so great.
Hey, read my new series on DuShane.substack.com called Nick Cave and the Jehovah’s Witness. And enjoy the show.
Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4 p.m. on 92.9FM Los Gatos, 101.9FM Santa Cruz, and 91.1FM Portland on Pirate Cat Radio.
Alta Ifland is the author of Two Queens and a Chronicler.
She left Romania with her dissident husband in 1991, in the chaos following the collapse of the communist regime. She ended up in Florida sponsored by a community of Lutheran ministers, which was her first taste of culture in the United States. She found her way to Northern California and imbedded herself in the literary community. It’s a fascinating journey.
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Kennedy Weible is the author of Dirty Myrtle.
We discuss working for years in the restaurant biz and how very few people know the term capping ashtrays, how to shift anger writing to fun writing and why it’s the only way to fly, growing up in Myrtle Beach, and so much more.
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Hilary Plattner is the author of A Momma Puzzle: A Memoir. In the book she puts together the pieces of her mother who she lost in death by suicide when she was six-years-old.
We discuss the importance of destigmatizing suicide discussion, even the lame algorithms that won’t let the word ‘suicide’ be used. Her process of bringing up these wounds of the past, including the griefs and the joys, and how to understand why suicide happens.
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Pamela Redmond is an author of many books and also performer and writer of her one-woman-show Old Woman Naked.
We deep dive into the process of creativity, how it feels to have your novel made into a TV Series, our complaints about AI, and so much more.
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Rachel Walther is the author of Born To Lose: The Misfits Who Made Dog Day Afternoon.
We deep dive into one of the greatest films of all time based on a true story of a bank robbery in Brooklyn, starring Al Pacino and directed by Sidney Lumet, released in 1975.
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Jaydi Samuels Kuba is the author of Your Last First Date: Secrets from a Hollywood Matchmaker.
We discuss dating, matchmaking, her time as a TV writer for such shows as Family Guy and the reboot of Good Times, and so much more. Check out LJ Matchmaking for more info on Jaydi.
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Ed Lin is the author of The Dead Can’t Make A Living: A Taipei Market Novel.
Only SIX available spots for my Monday Night Novel Workshop, if you’ve been putting off writing a novel, this is your call to action to join us. Register here.
Ed and I discuss Taiwan, bands we grew up seeing live, including New Order, The Sugarcubes, Public Image Ltd., and of course writing novels.
The Novel Approach Workshop with Tony DuShane
April 20 – May 18, 2026
Mondays at 6pm PT on Zoom.
Limited to six students, register now.
Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4 p.m. on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat Radio.
Frances Crawford is the author of A Bad Bad Place.
Straight out of Glasgow, Frances is a debut novelist, 63 years old, and a punk rock mom. We talk what it takes to shift your life around and become a novelist and finding an agent and publisher to back your goals.
Wanna take a novel workshop to reach your goals, join my workshop linked below.
The Novel Approach Workshop with Tony DuShane
April 20 – May 18, 2026
Mondays at 6pm PT on Zoom.
Limited to six students, register now.
Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4 p.m. on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat Radio.
Darls Centola is the author of Finding Druth with Michale: A Memoir of Friendship, Faith, and First Love.
Darls grew up a Jehovah’s Witness and her and Michael Jackson studied the bible together in high school. The book is her shared journey with Michael that ultimately leads to her exit from the religion.
Join Darls and I at Book Soup in West Hollywood on April 7th as we discuss her memoir in person.
The Novel Approach Workshop with Tony DuShane
April 20 – May 18, 2026
Mondays at 6pm PT on Zoom.
Limited to six students, register now.
Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4 p.m. on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat Radio.
Jared Chiang-Zeizel is the co-author of A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming.
We chat all things dreams, sex dreams, seeing dead people in dreams, and how to become a lucid dreamer.
March 4th @ 6pm: Tony’s Free Creative Writing Workshop at Los Feliz Library on 1874 Hillhurst Ave., Los Angeles, just show up.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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Joe McGinniss Jr. is the author of Damaged People: A Memoir of Fathers and Sons.
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,
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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,
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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.
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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.
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Caitlin Myer is my writer friend from San Francisco. She has lived in Portugal for the last 7 years. Before that she traveled the world going wherever life would open to her.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Tony DuShane is the author of Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk. This episode is called Kerfuffling Genitals.
I talk about a botched one-night stand, words you can’t use on YouTube, inspiration from Anne Lamott and Charles Bukowski, life’s choices leading to regret, my penis brain, and more.
Register for 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.
Nikki Nash is the author of Collateral Stardust: Chasing Warren Beatty and Other Foolish Things.
We chat Don Cornelias and Soul Train, working with Conan O’Brien, how Jeff Goldbloom is present, like really present, like almost too in the moment, is there a moment before or after his moment?, her first job with Mary Hartman and the show Mary Hartman, but I totally mixed it up and thought it was Mary Hart, oh, what a fool am I? and so much more.
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.
Fadi Zaghmout is the author of The Man of Middling Height. Originally published in Arabic it’s now available in English from Syracuse University Press.
We chat speculative fiction vs. sci-fi and we still can’t figure out how publishers define it, how Fadi started out as a blogger to write about taboo subjects before his government cracked down on what you can say as a blogger, and so much more.
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Alecia McKenzie is the author of A Million Aunties: A Novel out now on Akashic Books.
We chat walking amongst the dead literary spirits of Paris, her start writing as a four year old in Kingston, Jamaica, why every neighborhood needs aunties, and so much more.
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Tad Crawford is the author of A Woman in the Wild. We also chat his other book, The Secret Life of Monday, and we talk about IQ84 and other Murakami, Proust, long novels, the writing process, creating characters, and the word ‘esoteric’ while being esoteric.
Novel 1 registration is open for August workshops, limited to six students:
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James Elkins is the author of A Short Introduction to Anneliese out now on Unnamed Press.
Novel 1 registration is open for August workshops, limited to six students:
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James and I chat Exegesis by Philip K. Dick, Finnegan’s Wake and Ulysses, Proust Smelling the fear of some authors in their work, The Anatomy of Melancholy, and so much more.
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Ralph Steadman illustrated Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Also a writer, I interviewed Ralph in 2007 for his memoir The Joke’s Over. A deep cut from the Drinks with Tony archives.
We chat Hunter S. Thompson, Oscar Zeta Acosta, and more.
Start your novel immediately, stop procrastinating, join my novel workshop in August. More info at DrinksWithTony.com
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Kurt Baumeister is the author of Twilight of the Gods on Stalking Horse Press. He’s also an acquisitions editor for 7.13.
We discuss how we lose friends and family when writing auto-fiction, Martin Amis’ Inside Story, Ian Maloney’s South Brooklyn Exterminating, Desperately Seeking Susan, and the delusion and reality of a writing career.
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Jeffrey Konvitz is the author of The Circus of Satan: A Novel exploring the Irish mob in New York City of the early 1900s. Based on true events, yet fictionalized for emotional truth.
We chat about his first novel The Sentinel and his experience going from rejected writer to best selling author with a film deal. With the new swagger in his step he approached a beautiful woman to flirt with and he introduced himself by showing the large display of his best-selling novel at the bookstore. They soon married and had a kid.
I hope you enjoy this episode, it was lots of fun.
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Tom Lutz is the author of 1925 A Literary Encyclopedia out now on Rare Bird Lit.
We discuss everything from Fitzgerald to the Harlem Renaissance and more from 1925 A Literary Encyclopedia, his move to France and adjusting to French life and culture, why he stopped taking portraits after his portrait book was published, and so much more.
June 17, 2025 join me for a free online writing workshop. Registration at the link.
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Ted Kessler is the author of The Authorized Unauthorized History of Billy Childish: To Ease My Troubled Mind.
As a veteran music journalist and friend to Childish since the 1990s, Ted has created an intimate portrait of the living legend.
June 11, 2025 join me for Books For Breakfast, a non-intellectual conversation about Victor Hugo.
June 17, 2025 join me for a free online writing workshop. Registration at the link.
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Jon Ronson is the author of So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed. I interviewed him in 2015 when the book came out and it’s pretty mind blowing where cancel culture has ‘matured’ ten years since.
Check out Writing Is Hard and Why You Should Write at dushane.substack.com.
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Lucinda Berry is the author of One In Four: A Thriller.
We chat child psychology, running marathons, how the brain works, and her transition to full time author.
New creative writing workshops and book groups coming in May and June on DuShane.substack.com, subscribe to stay up to date.
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Rachel Paris is the author of See How They Fall: A Novel.
We discuss the humiliating vulnerability of writing and why everyone should do it, why we should never write for the market, or as she says, ‘Write what’s eating us inside’ … because that’s everything, write our soul onto the page, it’s the only way to fly, and other fun stuff.
Free online creative writing workshop for May will be announced on dushane.substack.com later this week. If you live in the Los Angeles area the next two creative writing workshops I’m teaching at the Los Feliz library are June 4th and July 2nd, so come on out.
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Chuck Klosterman is the author of tons of books. This is a tape from my interview with him around 2012 when he was promoting The Visible Man. We met at Zam Zam in San Francisco. I’m having fun just going through a bunch of old interviews that I found. Next week my guest is Rachel Paris so we’re back on current authors for the show.
Go to dushane.substack.com to enjoy some book articles as well as upcoming free creative writing workshops via zoom. There’s a lot planned there popping up in May and June.
Also, join my free creative writing workshop at the Los Feliz Branch Library on Hillhurst and Franklin in Los Feliz on Wednesday, May 7th at 6pm. Just show up, that’s your ticket, just arrive. We have good fun.
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Matthieu Ricard is the author of Happiness. I interviewed him around 2003 and he introduced the idea of mindfulness to me. He is also assistant and translator for the Dalai Lama. I was lucky his publicist got in touch with me for the book and you’ll probably hear what a mess I was when trying to command an interview.
I even refer to “mindfulness” as “timelessness” at some point. I was that out of it.
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Marlon James won the Man Booker Prize for his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings. I caught up with him in 2005 when he was touring his first book John Crow’s Devil. So, another tape from the archives we have fun exploring this week on Drinks with Tony.
I’m still putting together the final details on my world famous workshop: Write Your Novel in Three Years or More. Stay Tuned.
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Colum McCain is the author of Twist: A Novel. We had a great time talking NYC, Ireland, the obsessive structure of writing environments for novels, and his really cool organization Narrative 4 that taps the storytelling in our hearts to young people. Yes, storytelling is everything.
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Richard Hell is the author of Godlike. And this interview is old, like 2003 or 2004 taping. We met at a bar called The Argus in San Francisco, he was mad at me that it wasn’t a radio studio, but we chatted and he became lovely. He was mad that the cab ride cost him $15, so, I told him how to take Muni back to where he’s staying and he didn’t have cash, so I gave him bus money and waited with him until his correct bus came. And it was glorious. I’m glad to share it with you.
Make Joy You Fool referenced on the show for your pleasure.
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Miranda July, two interviews from the archives. The first one is from 2015 regarding her novel The First Bad Man. The second one is from 2005 regarding her film Me and You and Everyone We Know.
I thought the 2005 interview was lost, I can’t believe I found it. And the photos in the graphic are ones I took of her after recording that interview, they’re very low-res as I don’t have the originals from my camera, remember, it was 2005 kids.
I’m so excited to present this to you this week. I have one more interview that we did on video, I think I may need to get it transferred from MiniDV, yeah, that long ago.
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Alex Higley is the author of True Failure: A Novel.
We do a deep dive into the novel writing process and how we’re always being manipulated by stories.
On March 1st at 9am Pacific we discuss Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger. Our online book group is called Book Smash and register at this link.
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Angela Brown is the author of Some Other Time.
We discuss how her and her husband met at 14 in high school, writing speculative fiction, do magic moments happen in life, and so much more.
On March 1st at 9am Pacific we discuss Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger. Our online book group is called Book Smash and register at this link.
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.
William Boyle is the author of Saint of the Narrows Street.
We chat Brooklyn Dodgers, Oxford Mississippi, James Joyce, the fun of NOT organizing personal libraries to indulge in the hunt, and so much more.
February Book Smash is Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, join us.
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Paul Ollinger is the author of Reasonably Happy: The Skeptic’s Guide to Achievable Contentment. He’s also a podcaster and standup comic.
We discuss specific details of when I lost my virginity on my wedding night, his audition for Chelsea Lately, managing resentment with happiness, and so much more.
February Book Smash is Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, join us.
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Francesca Lia Block is the author of House of Hearts and many other books.
We discuss love and heartbreak, her moment with David Byrne. LA punk rock and how The Go-Go’s inspired her to become a writer, Weetzie Bat, and so much more.
February Book Smash is Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, join us.
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Craig Clevenger is the author of The Contortionist’s Handbook, re-issued by Datura Books.
On this episode we discuss the glorious holy temple where we worship which is the public library, mental health, how to look back at our books as authors, and so much more.
Join Book Smash January 2025, our book is Berlin Blues by Sven Regener, which we’ll discuss on zoom at the end of the month.
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Kim Dower is the author of What She Wants: Poems on Obsession, Desire, Despair, Euphoria.
We chat channeling our characters, why poetry gets a bad rap, visiting Baudelaire’s grave, and so much more.
Recorded hours before the fires in LA and due to my lack of sleep and processing all of the events I didn’t record an intro and used the direct audio from the radio show broadcast. Prayers for all in Los Angeles affected and hope for speedy recovery.
dushane.substack.com to join our Book Smash and more.
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Joe Clifford is the author of Shadow People and many other books.
We discuss the esoteric ways of writing novels, what success and failure in life can be, how high stakes alleviates anxiety, and so much more.
Join us for Book Smash January 2025 as we read and discuss Berlin Blues by Sven Regener.
Happy New Year and welcome to episode 300 of the reboot of Drinks with Tony.
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Hal Hartley is one of the kings of indie cinema with films like Henry Fool and The Girl From Monday. I taped this about 20 years ago at Dalva in San Francisco. Very happy to find the tape and put it out into the wild again.
Join us for Read Along with Tony our December book is
The Time of the Assassins by Henry Miller.
Zoom meeting is December 28 at 9am Pacific / 12pm Eastern / 8pm GMT / 9pm EUOnline chat all month long.
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Tony DuShane is the author of Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk.
This week I dive into greedy eyeballs of actors at industry screenings, how to make left turns in Los Angeles, Knocking on doors as a Jehovah’s Witness, nostalgia for kicking cars of shit drivers, and so much more.
Join us for Read Along with Tony our December book is
The Time of the Assassins by Henry Miller.
Zoom meeting is December 28 at 9am Pacific / 12pm Eastern / 8pm GMT / 9pm EUOnline chat all month long.
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.
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
The Time of the Assassins by Henry Miller.
Zoom meeting is December 28 at 9am Pacific / 12pm Eastern / 8pm GMT / 9pm EUOnline chat all month long.
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
Book: The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
Online meeting time: November 30th 9am PT/ 12pm ET
Reserve your spot now.
December 2024 – Read Along with Tony
Book: A Time of Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud by Henry Miller
Online meeting late December.
Reserve your spot now.
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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
Book: The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
Online meeting time: November 30th 9am PT/ 12pm ET
Reserve your spot now.
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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
October 11 – 26, 2024Last Summer in the City
by Gianfranco Calligarich
Zoom meeting October 26th, join us.
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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 DuShaneOctober 11 – 26, 2024Last Summer in the City
by Gianfranco Calligarich
Zoom meeting October 26th, join us.
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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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October 11 – 26, 2024Last Summer in the City (1970)
by Gianfranco Calligarich
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.
Colleen McKeegan is the author of Rip Tide: A Novel.
We discuss what to do when you have a major brain crush on an author, training for mascots of sports teams, the definition of a book hangover, and so much more.
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.
Jessica Maguire is the author of The Nervous System Reset: Heal Trauma, Resolve Chronic Pain, and Regulate Your Emotions with the Power of the Vagus Nerve.
We discuss the micro-communications that happens with our eyes, face, and hands, how to calm a 15 month old baby, how to look within ourselves after bad romantic relationships, and so much more.
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.
John A. Dailey is the author of Tough Rugged Bastards: A Memoir of a Life in Marine Special Operations.
We discuss the subconscious mind work of repetitive drills, the emotional response of combat, his deployment to Afghanistan after 9/11, what movies about war are closest to portraying the real thing, and so much more.
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.
Bobi Conn is the author of Someplace Like Home.
We discuss doing psychedelics, her family heritage of moonshiners, how to get out of the way of our characters, collective anger of sports fans, and so much more.
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.
Alexander Boldizar is the author of The Man Who Saw Seconds.
We discuss living in a refugee camp after fleeing Slovakia in the 1979, the art of learning new languages, keeping authenticity as a writer while still entertaining the reader, Commedia dell’arte, and so much more.
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.
Peter Houlahan is the author of Reap the Whirlwind: Violence, Race, Justice, and the Story of Sagon Penn.
We discuss his coverage of Sagon Penn’s case of being found not-guilty of shooting and killing a police officer, how our brains are being hacked by data collection, when happens when you don’t back up your work, and so much more.
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.
Paul Cody is the author of Walk The Dark.
We take a deep dive into his time teaching in prison, what landed him in the psych ward and how it changed his life, when after 25 years of sobriety he fell off the wagon to dire consequences, and so much more.
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.
Nicholas Belardes is the author of The Deading.
We chat how a novel should feel like a song, approaching novel writing like an athlete, how to set yourself up before getting an MFA in writing, and so much more.
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.
Joyce Maynard is the author of How the Light Gets In. She’s a best selling author and her books To Die For and Labor Day have been adapted to films.
We chat:
How to be an authentic writer, embracing that life is messy, her hotel in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala, her affair with J. D. Salinger, being on set for To Die For, and so much more.
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.
Joe Clifford is the author of A Moth To Flame. His novel Lamentation was recently translated to Italian and he just came back from an author tour of Italy.
We pine for cafe culture in Italia
We whine about phonies and the suck of life
We pontificate about our artistic integrity
We diss Kanye West
…..and so much more…
Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM, KPCR-LP, Los Gatos.
Danielle and Kyler join my spontaneous writing course. We discuss being uncomfortable as a writer, the importance of journaling, the intimacy we have with our characters, how to rewrite, and so much more.
Join my Summer Online Novel Writing Workshop June 16 – August 4. We’re all innate storytellers, learn how to harness what you already have onto the page and ultimately craft your novel. Register at www.tonydushane.com. Limited to 10 students.
Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM, KPCR-LP, Los Gatos.
Ann Leary is the author of I’ve Tried to Be Nice: Essays.
Join my Summer Online Novel Writing Workshop June 23 – August 4. We’re all innate storytellers, learn how to harness what you already have onto the page and ultimately craft your novel. Register at www.tonydushane.com. Limited to 10 students.
Ann Leary and I discuss:
When her and her husband Denis Leary went to couples counseling during a rough patch in their marriage, what playing games can teach us about ourselves and others, how her true love is writing the novel, and so much more.
Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM, KPCR-LP, Los Gatos.
Matthew Daddona is the author of The Longitude of Grief: A novel.
We discuss cafe culture in Sarajevo, the virtues of Philly, writing compelling characters, how to hit a deer in Hungary, and so much more.
Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM, KPCR-LP, Los Gatos.
Nicolás Medina Mora is the author of América del Norte.
We discuss being a debut novelist, the literary scene in Mexico City, the culture shock of living in the United States and moving back to Mexico, what it means to heed the calling as a writer, and so much more.
Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM, KPCR-LP, Los Gatos.
Ari Gold is the co-author of Father Verses Sons: A Correspondence in Poems, with his late father and author Herbert Gold, and his brother Ethan Gold.
Herbert died when he was 99, in November 2023.
We discuss how living in San Francisco leads to longevity of life, how poetry created a communication bond that was extremely intimate, the 4:39 rule to poetry, living under the legacy of his father, and so much more.
Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM, KPCR-LP, Los Gatos.
Sasha Vasilyuk is the author of Your Presence is Mandatory.
We discuss the generations of her family’s experience in Ukraine, researching a novel based in true events, how pregnancy is a great deadline for writers, and so much more.
Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM, KPCR-LP, Los Gatos.
Alex Kazemi is the author of New Millennium Boyz.
We discuss social hierarchy, living the authentic artist life, book censorship, Kabbalah, Woodstock ‘99, when writing is emotionally damaging, and so much more.
Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM, KPCR-LP, Los Gatos.
Jeff Zentner is the author of Colton Gentry’s Third Act: A Novel.
Jeff started as a musician, then hung it up to work with organizations helping teenagers. That’s when he developed a love of YA novelists and became one himself. Colton Gentry’s Third Act is his first adult novel.
We discuss Jeff’s three rules of getting a novel finished, doing book tours vs band tours, Biphasic sleep, and how the characters we create are sometimes more real than people we know and so much more.
Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM, KPCR-LP, Los Gatos.
Andrew Miller is the author of Namaste Mart Confidential.
We discuss:
Sexy masculinity.
How to take a punch.
Why the year 2013 is important to his novel.
Crime fiction…and so much more…
Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM, KPCR-LP, Los Gatos.
Cat Howell is the author of Magic Source Codes: The Craft of Reality.
We start the 8-Week Novel Writing Workshop on Monday, this is your last call. TWO spots left. Go to tonydushane.com/novel to register. We already have a solid group of veterans and beginners.
We discuss:
How to become rich by masturbating.
My limiting beliefs I didn’t even know I had.
Alchemy, gnosis, sex magick, and so much more.
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.
Cara Black is the author of Murder at La Villette. It’s the 21st novel in her Aimée Leduc Investigation series.
Join my free Novel Writing Workshop March 9th at 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern, go to tonydushane.com/free to register.
Cara and I discuss the 19th Arrondissement in Paris, how her research for her latest novel brought her into the neighborhood of a serial killer, film adaptations of books and so much more.
Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM, KPCR-LP, Los Gatos.
This week I answer a few questions from our listeners about outlining, finding the ending to your story, and more. I also include my interview with Robert McKee from last year.
Join my 8-Week Novel Writing Workshop starting March 18th. Go to tonydushane.com/novel to register. Early birds pay $375 for the class where we’ll deep dive into what it takes to write a novel, do writing exercises, workshop your work, and set you up on a path to completing your novel. Join now, enrollment is limited. We’ll meet on Zoom.
Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM, KPCR-LP, Los Gatos.
Kris Saknussemm is the author of A Guide To Creative Writing and The Imagination.
Join me for an 8-week novel writing workshop on Monday nights at 6pm Pacific on Zoom. Go to tonydushane.com/novel to register. Class runs March 18 – May 6. If you’ve been looking for a time to dive deep into your novel, it’s March 18th.
Kris and I discuss psychics vs. mentalists, living in Las Vegas, writers exploring other ways to tap their imaginations, never fall in love with a writer, and so much more.
Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM, KPCR-LP, Los Gatos.
Sarah Tomlinson is the author of The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers. She has also ghostwritten many books.
We discuss ghostwriting for celebrities, Taylor Swift, novels as the perfect storytelling medium, her debut novel coming out 30 years after she decided to write a novel, great journalism and sad journalism, and so much more.
Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM, KPCR-LP, Los Gatos.
Kelley McNeil is the author of Mayluna.
Join my Free Online Novel Writer Workshop on February 24th here: at tonydushane.com/free
Kelley and I chat: How our brains work with memory and trauma to shift the stories, the trappings of fame for musicians, that time Jon Bon Jovi laughed at her, how Dave Matthews is great even if you don’t like his music, judging friends by their like or dislike of Neil Diamond, her years doing music promo for large venues in Pittsburgh, and so much more.
Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM, KPCR-LP, Los Gatos.
Melinda Lee Holm is the author of Your Tarot Guide: Learn to navigate life with the help of the cards.
Join my Free Novel Writer Workshop on February 24th here: at tonydushane.com/free
Melinda and I discuss how Tarot saved her life as a kid when she grew up being bullied and living in an abusive house, does Tarot really tell us the future? the joy and terror of writing books, and so much more.
Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM, KPCR-LP, Los Gatos.
Or, everything I’ve done wrong in ghostwriting so you don’t have to.
Join me for a Free Novel Writing Workshop on Feb 24th, 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern / 8pm UK.
Go to: tonydushane.com/free to join. Only available to the first 50 students.
Arthur Rapkin is the author of Poison For Rats: Six Kilos that Changed Everything, a Memoir.
We chat about his cocaine smuggling years, surviving Mexican prison, how he got out and escaped to Canada to avoid drug charges in the United States, and so much more.
Don’t miss this episode.
Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM, KPCR-LP, Santa Cruz.
Elle Nash is the author of Deliver Me: A Novel.
We chat Christianity, joining the Muslims, leaving the Muslims, literary scene in Glasgow, social media sucks, and so much more.
Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM, KPCR-LP, Santa Cruz.
Scott Weintraub is the co-author of Back to the Body: Infusing Physical Life Into Characters in Theatre and Film. With Jean-Louis Rodrigue.
We chat the importance of creating stories not only as actors and writers, but as regular humans throughout our days. We all have stories, we even tell stories with body language. Scott and I dive into this and more.
Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM, KPCR-LP, Santa Cruz.
Michael J. WIlson is the author of A Labyrinth: Fiction, out now on Stalking Horse Press.
We chat his work with Meow Wolf, architecture that offends the senses, how social media ruins everything, and so much more.
Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM, KPCR-LP, Santa Cruz.
Joe Di Prisco is the author of My Last Resume: New and Collected Poems.
We chat poetry, novels, the arts, the Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize, outreach to teach literary arts to the youth, and so much more.
Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 101.9 FM, KPCR, Santa Cruz.
Carla Malden is the author of My Two and Only.
We chat about writer a character in her latest novel that’s a widow versus writing her memoir After Image. What exactly are memories? Is humanity inherently evil? ….and so much more.
Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 101.9 FM, KPCR, Santa Cruz.
John Hunter is the author of Maps and Legends: The Story of R.E.M.
Join me for a free creative writing workshop at the Los Feliz branch public library on Wednesday, November 8th at 6pm. Just show up and we’ll have some fun.
Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 101.9 FM, KPCR, Santa Cruz.
Anne Leigh Parrish is the author of A Summer Morning.
Join me for a free creative writing workshop at the Los Feliz branch public library on Wednesday, November 8th at 6pm. Just show up and we’ll have some fun.
Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 101.9 FM, KPCR, Santa Cruz.
Donna Marie Hayes is the author of These Broken Roads: Scammed and Vindicated, One Woman’s Story.
We discuss love, faith, what happened when someone died in front of her on the subway, her fear of rats, my fear of heights, and so much more.
Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 101.9 FM, KPCR, Santa Cruz.
Rykarda Parasol’s new record is called Tuesday Morning.
We discuss Rykarda’s creative rebirth in Paris, how her mom shot up her stuffed animal with a gun in the backyard when Rykarda was 7 years old, her new record and collaborations with Marc Ottavi, and so much more.
Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 101.9 FM, KPCR, Santa Cruz.
Photo credit: Tanya Rodriguez
Jon Krampner is the author of Ernest Lehman: The Sweet Smell of Success.
We discuss if Mo Udall became president instead of Carter we may never had Reagan, writing biographies vs. novels, and what happens when two writers are locked in a dark closet.
Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 101.9 FM, KPCR, Santa Cruz.
Beth Raymer is the author of Fireworks Every Night: A Novel.
We chat living the writing life vs. having a corporate job, how to get rent control in NYC, fake urgency, betraying people, and so much more.
Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 101.9 FM, KPCR, Santa Cruz.
Jarret Keene is the author of Hammer of the Dogs. He also teaches graphic novel and world literature at UNLV.
We chat when Jarret was a paparazzo in Las Vegas, unsafe spaces, the Las Vegas military presence, and isolation culture with self checkout and door delivery.
Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 101.9 FM, KPCR, Santa Cruz.
James Reich is the author of The Moth for the Star, out now on 7.13 books. We discuss the old days of nurturing authors at publishing houses, the literary canon, […]
Ariel Anderssen is the author of Playing To Lose: How a Jehovah’s Witness Became a Submissive BDSM Model. We chat: Leaving the Jehovah’s Witnesses, BDSM, Eternal Life (yes or no), […]
Matthew Binder is the author of Pure Cosmic Club. We discuss quitting your day job to write, living in Budapest, Matthew’s fever-pitch writing process, when you break up who gets […]
Trevor J Houser is the author of The Prumont Method. We discuss When he staked out police and judges as a private investigator. The best bar in NYC. Father and […]
Brian O’Hare is the author of the story collection Surrender. We discuss: How to be rich as a writer, seeing characters in everyday life that end up in our books, […]
Bill Boggs is the author of Spike Unleashed: The Wonder Dog Returns: As told to Bill Boggs. He was a talk show host and his archives are available on Youtube. […]
Margie Taylor is the author of Rose Addams. Along with her career as an author she was a producer and host on radio at CBC in Canada. We chat: What […]
Joe Clifford is the author of Say My Name, and a TON of other books. His first is memoir, Junkie Love, which we also talk about. And we chat about […]
Christine Sneed’s new book of short stories is called Direct Sunlight. She’ll be in conversation with Collette Sartor at Chevalier’s Books on June 28th at 6pm in Larchmont Village. Join […]
Craig Clevenger is the author of Mother Howl. His earlier books are The Contortionist’s Handbook and Dermaphoria. We discuss: How he stumbled into working at the library. How his first […]
Cat Howell is the author of Magic Source Codes: The Craft of Reality.
We discuss:
How to become rich by masturbating.
My limiting beliefs I didn’t even know I had.
Alchemy, gnosis, sex magick, and so much more.
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.
Stephen Jay Schwartz is the author of Stormy Whether or not we believe it is Still Stormy Weather.
We discuss:
The horrors of online dating.
Stephen’s father’s suicide.
When your wife is a great editor.
Reggio’s in the West Village.
And so much more…
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.
Alexandra Auder is the author of Don’t Call Me Home: A Memoir.
On May 10th at 6pm at the Los Feliz Library on Hillhurst and Franklin I’m teaching a free creative workshop. Just show up, or go to LAPL.org for more information.
And now, Alexandra and I discuss.
Her history at the Chelsea hotel during the Andy Warhol era.
Vince Neil vs Nick Cave, who would win in a fight.
How she worked on her memoir for decades.
That time she starred with her mom in a Wim Winders film and so much more.
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.
Martha Hall Kelly is the author of The Golden Doves.
We discuss:
When breeding a mini-poodle and golden retriever, who’s on top?
How the Reagans planned their week to their horoscope.
Researching World War 2 and creating compelling characters
How she almost self published before her first book went to auction.
And so much more.
Join the email list by sending me a note at dushane@gmail.com for writing prompts, scheduling writing, and so much more.
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.
Tara Ison is the author of At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf.
We discuss:
The film Body Heat.
Opening a cafe where patrons are only allowed to read books.
The common thread of mother/daughter relationships in her novels.
How to tap playful creativity.
Mikey Rourke when he was young and cute.
And so much more.
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.
Robert Dugoni is the author of Her Deadly Game.
Robert and I discuss:
The super secret magic method of writing a novel.
Our mutual fear of flying.
The cure for anxiety.
Saying prayers before rodeos.
And so much more….
April 3rd at 6pm I’m teaching a FREE creative writing workshop at the Los Feliz Branch Library. Join us if you live in Los Angeles.
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.
Tony DuShane is the author of Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk, which was turned into a film directed by Eric Stoltz and Tony adapted the book to script for that. He also hosts the phenomenal radio show Drinks with Tony, which you may have heard of.
I talk about writing, I thought I had my novel Dream Casting finished during this lecture, but, fear not, I’m deep into draft 15 right now.
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.
J. D. O’Brien is the author of Zig Zag.
We discuss intimate subjects like podcasting, punk rock, writing, dating, and working as an extra in TV and film.
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.
Charlotte Maya is the author of Sushi Tuesday: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Resilience.
Join me for a free creative writing workshop at the Los Feliz Branch library on Wednesday, March 8th at 6pm. Just show up on Hillhurst and Franklin or go to LAPL.org.
Charlotte and I discuss:
Grieving the loss of her husband to suicide.
How she accidentally found love after tragedy.
Our mutual adoration for Anne Lamott.
How a man aiming his pee into the toilet is 49% of a solid marriage.
And so much more.
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.
Gloria Beth Amodeo is the author of God’s Ex-girlfriend, a Memoir About Loving and Leaving the Evangelical Jesus.
We discuss:
How to convert to evangelical Christianity.
The UTIs she had when she lost her virginity.
How long she made her current husband wait before they had sex.
Preaching Jesus on the beach.
…and so much more.
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.
Duncan Birmingham is the author of The Cult In My Garage and writer and director of Who Invited Them.
We discuss:
Being shamed by our fathers.
Working on Blunt Talk and Maron.
HIs new film WHO INVITED THEM.
Our mutual, pubescent desires for Jamie Lee Curtis.
And so much more.
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.
Iris Smyles is the author of Droll Tales.
We discuss:
Writing first drafts.
Online dating.
Sad lives of disconnected people.
We plan our date for April.
…and so much more.
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.
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Kelly Dessaint is the author of Dispatches from Behind the Wheel: The Omnibus: The Complete Zine Series about Driving for Hire in San Francisco.
Kelly and I Discuss:
Driving for Lyft, Uber, and becoming a taxi driver in San Francisco.
The problem with what has become of ride sharing.
How Kelly ended up getting into drugs and a dark place and his recovery.
It’s not a good idea to call your wife a bitch in a column when you’re separated because that’s just another thing to apologize for when you get back together.
And so much more.
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.
Cecil Castellucci is the author of Shifting Earth as well as many other comics including Batgirl on DC Comics.
My free creative writing workshop happens Feb. 8th at 6pm at the Los Feliz branch library in Los Angeles. Join us just by showing up.
And now, Cecil and I discuss:
The craft of creating comics
Film clubs in Los Angeles in the 1990s
How to collaborate with artists and illustrators as a writer
How to write an opera, yes, and opera
..and so much more.
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.
Joe Donnelly is the co-author of God of Sperm: Cappy Rothman’s Life in Conception with Cappy Rothman.
We discuss:
Ethics question of donating sperm.
Are we but specs on a small planet amidst billions of stars? And what do we do with that knowledge?
Cappy Rothman’s medical achievements in fertility.
If Cappy chose a different branch of the military, how millions of people alive might not be in existence.
And of course, the magnificent title: God of Sperm
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.
Elissa Bassist is the author of Hysterical: A Memoir.
January 14th @ 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern, join my online workshop:
Kickstart Your Novel 2023.
$15, register here.
Elissa and I discuss:
Why college students should do more drugs and have more sex
The laws of attraction
The genius of Ally McBeal
Radical acceptance of her father
Teaching comedy writing
And so much more.
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.
David Leaf is the author of God Only Knows: The Story of Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys and the California Myth.
January 14th @ 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern, join my online workshop:
Kickstart Your Novel 2023.
$15, register here.
David and I discuss:
The Beach Boys.
Behind the scenes of TV production including a live Frank Sinatra special.
His first job writing sports journalism.
How he learned to tell stories by hiding contraband from his parents.
How to know when you’ve fallen in love.
And so much more.
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.
Douglas Abrams is the co-author of The Little Book of Joy with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Tutu.
January 14th @ 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern, join my online workshop:
Kickstart Your Novel 2023. $15, register here.
And now, Doug and I discuss:
How joy comes from struggle
Desmond Tutu as a father figure for Douglas
The controversy of the Dalia lama taking communion
How to find meaning in life and death
When living with the Dalia lama and archbishop tutu, did either of them fart?
And so much more.
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.
Jon Bennett is the author of the poetry collection Leisure Town. He’s also my neighbor from when I lived in the Tenderloin in San Francisco.
We discuss:
Leonard Cohen novels
Kombucha bars in Oregon
CPAPs and sex
Dharma Punx
San Francisco college and pirate radio
Drugs in the Tenderloin
……And so much more.
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.
Allison Landa is the author of Bearded Lady: When You’re a Woman with a Beard, Your Secret is Written All Over Your Face.
We discuss:
What is was like for her to have a beard and the complications of dating.
How she felt ashamed to write the book, but pushed through anyway.
What it’s like to be married to Adam Sandler.
The hard truth of being a mother.
And so much more.
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.
Photo: Adam Sandler
Nick Cave is the co-author of Faith, Hope, and Carnage with Seán O’Hagan. He’s also in a wonderful band called Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds. This is a Drinks with […]
Pleasant Gehman is the author of Rock ‘N’ Roll Witch: A Memoir of Sex Magick, Drugs, & Rock ‘N’ Roll. We discuss: The LA punk rock scene of the ‘70s and […]
Jenna Matlin is the author of Will You Give Me a Reading?: What You Need to Read Tarot with Confidence. We discuss: A psychic phenomenon that happened during the show. Clown […]
Madame Pamita is the author of Baba Yaga’s Book of Witchcraft: Slavic Magic from the Witch of the Woods. Join me for a free creative writing workshop at the Los […]
Robert Crais is the author of Racing the Light (An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel). We discuss: How the search for truth is literally a life or death situation. UFOs. […]
Daniel Paisner is the author of Balloon Dog: A Novel. He’s also a big time famous ghost writer for the likes of Denzel Washington and Gilbert Gottfried. We discuss: How […]
Kid Congo Powers is the author of Some New Kind of Kick: A Memoir. The book reflects on his youth in La Puente to the LA punk scene as well […]
Christine Sneed is the author of Please Be Advised: A Novel in Memos We discuss: Working with indie presses vs. big houses. Why it’s harder to write an acknowledgements page […]
Erika Krouse is the author of Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation. How Erika became a private investigator. What is Harriet the Spy and Tony Robbins connection? Fear […]
Hannah Sward is the author of Strip: A Memoir. We discuss: Loneliness and strip clubs. Dating woes as a writer. How Hannah met her writing mentor at the library. Are […]
A. M. Homes is the author of The Unfolding. We chat: Writing a novel is messy. Her time writing for the tv series The L Word. Intimacy coordinators on film […]
Patrick O’Neil is the author of Anarchy At The Circle K: On The Road With Dead Kennedys, TSOL, Flipper, Subhumans and… Heroin. Patrick and I discuss: Infinite Jest sucks. Punk rock, […]
Pete Hsu is the author of If I Were The Ocean I’d Carry You Home. We chat: The problems of writing the novel. His conversion to evangelical christianity. Why he […]
Paula Priamos is the author of Appraise Her. We chat: Tupac’s penis. Why we have to push the boundaries as writers. Duran Duran and Billy Idol. How complaining about your […]
Rebekah Anderson is the author of The Grand Promise. We chat: The secret magic of how to write a novel. Growing up in Seattle. The literary community in Paris. Anne […]
Bruce Ferber is the author of I Buried Paul. We discuss: * Campaigning for Howard Dean * Our mutual hatred for influencers * How Paul’s therapist helped him shift from […]
Annabelle Gurwitch is the author of You’re Leaving When? Adventures in Downward Mobility. We discuss: * Vibrators and dry vaginas. * Emailing book reviewers who suck. * Getting fired from […]
Liska Jacobs is the author of The Pink Hotel. If you’re in Los Angeles, check out her event at Book Soup on Friday. Liska and I chat: * Writing in […]
Kevin Sampsell is the author of I Made an Accident, a book of his collages, out now on Clash Books. He’s also a memoirist and novelist and runs Future Tense […]
Larissa Pham is the author of Pop Song: Adventures in Art and Intimacy. Larissa and I talk about: * Being a writer in Brooklyn * Buddhism * Writing a novel […]
Jerry Stahl is the author of Nein, Nein, Nein! One Man’s Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust. We chat: * How to easily divorce […]
Jordan Castro is the author of The Novelist’ – A Novel. We chat: – Intimacy of pizza delivery before apps. – Cleveland Indians. – Urethra vs. Ethereal. – The beauty […]
Andrew Miller is the author of Lady Tomahawk, a novella featured in L.A Stories: Three Grindhouse Novels. We chat: – How to start a cult. – Is having sex with […]
Jordan A. Rothacker is the author of The Pit and No Other Stories. We chat: How to woo your muse. Important storytelling questions from 5 year olds. Why sex dreams […]
Diana Abu-Jaber is the author of Fencing with the King. We chat: – How to be a novelist without an MFA – Why it’s a bad idea to teach when […]
Taylor Hahn is the author of The Lifestyle, her debut novel. We chat: – How to survive and thrive in long term romantic relationships. – My aversion to threesomes, even […]
Tim Kirk is the author of Christ Never Showed Up! The disappointing near-death of Joe McPuppet and his curious life afterward. If you like the show you’ll love supporting Drinks with […]
Jon Bassoff is the author of Beneath Cruel Waters. If you like the show you’ll love supporting Drinks with Tony for as little as $3/month with extra perks and writerly […]
Kathe Koja is the author of Dark Factory. A novel as well as an immersive project. Want to co-host Drinks with Tony? Or receive a shout out at the top […]
Thea Wirsching is the creator of The American Renaissance Tarot, a tarot deck and accompanying book. We discuss * All things occult, * Are ouija boards dangerous? You bet they […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Robert Dugoni latest book is called The World Played Chess. We chat about Vietnam Vets, the personal experience of his new novel, how to prepare a speech for The Oscars, […]
Florence Williams is the author of Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey.
Do you have an idea for a novel or screenplay? Have you finished a draft and need help revising? Then ping me for story consulting and coaching, go to www.tonydushane.com to find out more.
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.
Dave Pell is the author of Please Scream Inside Your Heart: Breaking News and Nervous Breakdowns in the Year That Wouldn't End. He also runs the popular NextDraft Newsletter.
I'm teaching a FREE creative writing workshop at the Los Angeles Public Library via zoom on Feb. 9, 2022 at 6pm Pacific / 9pm Eastern. Register at LAPL.org.
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.
Eliza Jane Brazier is the author of Good Rich People. We chat about growing up Mormon, buying a horse during the pandemic, being homeless in London, and so much more.
And, how she got her first agent, lost her agent, but then, jumped right back up on the saddle. I love inspiring tales from authors.
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.
Maggie Rowe is the author of Easy Street: A Story of Redemption from Myself.
We discuss Envy, one of the 7 deadly sins, and who are we? Do we really present our true self to others? Do we present our true self to ourselves?
Questions are answered, the human condition is explored and completely revealed, and it's just two writers chatting.
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.
Joanna Lioce is the author of At Vesuvio. It's a secret look behind the curtain at what being a bartender at one of the greatest bars in the world is like.
I'm teaching a FREE creative writing workshop at the Los Angeles Public Library via zoom on January 12th at 6pm Pacific / 9pm Eastern. Register at LAPL.org.
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.
Tom Benjamin is the author of A Quiet Death in Italy and his new book The Hunting Season. Before he was an author he was a spokesman for Scotland Yard, and we have fun chatting about that as well as all things Bologna.
I'm teaching a FREE creative writing workshop at the Los Angeles Public Library via zoom on January 12th at 6pm Pacific / 9pm Eastern. Register at LAPL.org.
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.
Reinhard Denke is the author of It's a Wonderful Time with Doug Stebleton. The book is about time travel and the film It's a Wonderful Life, so, it's kind of perfect for Christmas.
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.
I'm accepting new coaching clients for novel and screenplays, go to https://www.tonydushane.com for more info.
Robert McKee is the author of Character: The Art of Role and Cast Design for Page, Stage, and Screen. We chat everything storytelling, hero's journey, and how to write a screenplay like a champ.
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.
I'm accepting new coaching clients for novel and screenplays, go to https://www.tonydushane.com for more info.
Thanks for listening.
David Leo Rice is the author of Drifter: Stories. We discuss David Cronenberg, NFTs, Danzig's penis size, how to write a great novel, and so much more.
Join my FREE Creative Writing workshop on December 15th at 6pm PST at the Los Angeles Public Library. It's on zoom, register here: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/creative-writing-workshop-4
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.
Daphne Gottlieb is the author of Saint 1001. She was also a part of Sister Spit and toured with them. Last time she was on Drinks with Tony was probably in 2004 in studio in San Francisco.
New Screenwriting classes are now available at www.tonydushane.com. I'm also accepting new coaching clients for novels and screenplays over the holidays.
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.
Kurt Baumeister is the author of Pax Americana. He's also an editor at 7.13 Books.
New Screenwriting classes are now available at www.tonydushane.com. I'm also accepting new coaching clients for novels and screenplays over the holidays.
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.
Joshua Jay is a magician and author of the book How Magicians Think: Misdirection, Deception, and Why Magic Matters.
New Screenwriting classes are now available at www.tonydushane.com. I'm also accepting new coaching clients for novels and screenplays over the holidays.
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.
David S. Wills is the author of High White Notes: The Rise and Fall of Gonzo Journalism.
And, on November 11th it's the 50th anniversary of the two part article Hunter S. Thompson wrote for Rolling Stone that later became the book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
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.
Rosemary Mosco is the author of A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching: Getting to Know the World's Most Misunderstood Bird. We chat about poop and sex and the beauty of pigeons.
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.
Barry Adamson is the author of the memoir Up Above the City Down Beneath The Stars. The book documents his growing up in Manchester, the bands he was a part of including Magazine, The Birthday Party, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, and more.
He's also a film composer and solo artist with some fantastic records to his credit including Moss Side Story, Back To The Cat, and As Above So Below.
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.
Gabriel Hart is the author of Fallout From Our Asphalt Hell. He's also the frontman for the wall of sound punk band Jail Weddings.
We chat all things writing, desert life, and why Transcendental Meditation is whack.
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.
Reba Merrill is the author of Making It: What I Got Away With in Hollywood. She was a morning TV talk show host in Phoenix and San Diego and spent decades interviewing celebrities from Meryl Streep to Harrison Ford. She also critiques my interviewing style, listen as things get intense.
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.
Mike DeCapite is the author of Jacket Weather, out now on Soft Skull Press. We talk writing, falling in love later in life, and memoir vs. novel.
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.
Vince Passaro is the author of Crazy Sorrow. He also writes for Harper's, The Nation, and many other publications covering books.
We chat writing mentors, gaps between first and second novels, and the celebrities from New Rochelle, NY.
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.
Jay Jay French is the author of Twisted Business: Lessons From My Life in Rock 'n' Roll. He's the founder of Twisted Sister and we discuss how to be a celebrity, if there was a Jesus, who was the real father, and so much more. Check out his podcast, The Jay Jay French Connection, and if you're in Los Angeles be sure to meet him in person at Barnes and Noble on September. 26th.
Robert Dugoni latest book is called The World Played Chess. We chat about Vietnam Vets, the personal experience of his new novel, how to prepare a speech for The Oscars, and super secret writing tips.
Matthew Fitzsimmons is the author of Constance. His previous books include The Short Drop and Cold Harbor.
We discuss the secrets of writing a novel, Jodie Foster, and how to rear children.
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.
Hilma Wolizter is the author of Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket, a collection of her stories from the ’60s and ’70s as well as new work. Her first novel was published when she was 44 and now she’s 91. She quit smoking when she was 37. Is there a correlation?
Join me on September 8th at the Los Angeles Public Library for a free creative writing workshop at 6pm PDT.
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.
Reuben Leder is the author of You Might Feel a Little Prick. He was also head writer on Magnum P.I. and wrote many other TV shows and screenplays. This is his first novel.
Join me on September 8th at the Los Angeles Public Library for a free creative writing workshop at 6pm PDT.
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.
Mark Haskell Smith is the author of Rude Talk In Athens: Ancient Rivals, the Birth of Comedy, and a Writer’s Journey through Greece.
My favorite and most frequent guest on Drinks with Tony.
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.
Andrea Bartz is the author of We Were Never Here.
Join me for a free writing workshop at the Los Angeles Public Library. This is our last online event, and we’re scheduled for in person classes again in September. It’s been fun doing it on Zoom for anyone from anywhere to join, so, let’s do one more great one.
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.
Meghan Daum is the author of The Problem With Everything and hosts the podcast Unspeakable. We chat mixtapes, crap on NPR, and a retirement home for Gen Xers that includes access to Xerox machines for chapbooks.
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.
Matthew Specktor is the author of Always Crashing in the Same Car: On Art, Crisis, & Los Angeles, CA. We chat about screenwriting, Tom Cruise, divorce, and the meaning of life.
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.
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett is the editor Palm Springs Noir out now on Akashic Press. It features some great writers who have been on the show before like Janet Fitch, Tod Goldberg, and Rob Roberge.
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.
Sarah Moore Fitzgerald is the author of the new novel All The Money In The World. She joined my from her home in Limerick, Ireland. Enjoy the show.
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.
Charles Farrell is the author of (Low)life: A Memoir of Jazz, Fight-Fixing, and The Mob. Listen to our conversation about his fascinating life.
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.
Tess Gerritsen is the co-author of Choose Me with Gary Braver. She is also the author of the bestsellers Life Support, Bloodstream, Gravity, and The Surgeon.
Join my free creative writing workshop presented by the Los Angeles Public Library on July 14th at 6pm Pacific.
On July 15th join Tess and Gary for their Zoom event with the Portland Maine library by clicking here.
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.
Marilyn Peterson Haus is the author of Half of a Whole: My Fight for a Separate Life.
Join my free creative writing workshop presented by the Los Angeles Public Library on July 14th at 6pm Pacific. It might be our last Zoom workshop since libraries are opening, so make sure to attend if you’re from out of town.
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Noel A. Obiora is the author of A Past That Breathes, out now on Rare Bird Press.
Enjoy the show.
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.
Michael Easter is the author of The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self.
Enjoy the show.
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.
Claire Phillips is the author of A room With a Darker View: Chronicles of My Mother and Schizophrenia.
Join my free creative writing workshop on June 9th through the Los Angeles Public Library by registering here.
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.
Mary Dixie Carter is the author of The Photographer, which is her debut novel.
I’m teaching a free creative writing class on Zoom through the Los Angeles Public Library on June 9th at 6pm Pacific time. Follow the link to register, no need for a LAPL library card.
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.
Eric M. Johnson is the author of Whenever a Happy Thing Falls. He’s also a journalist and writes for Reuters.
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.
Mick Harvey is the co-founder of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds and The Birthday Party. He also has released four records translating the songs of Serge Gainsbourg.
During the interview PJ Harvey came by in her hotel robe and showed us her bikini underneath before she went swimming. That’s the part where I tell Mick it was the best day of my life.
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.
Dan Denton is the author of $100-A-Week Motel out now on Punk Hostage Press.
May 13th at 7pm I’m teaching a free creative writing workshop at the Los Angeles Public Library. Go to the link to sign up from anywhere, and this might be near a last chance once we can do the class in person again, so join us.
May 16th I’m on a podcasting panel with Meghan Daum and ZIbby Owens, join us at 1pm at litfestpasadena.org. In fact, it goes on all day and there are other panels, so come for us, stay for the extra credit.
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.
Bob Calhoun is the author of The Murders That Made Us: How Vigilantes, Hoodlums, Mob Bosses, Serial Killers, and Cult Leaders Built the San Francisco Bay Area.
We’re both natives of the SF Bay Area, so enjoy the ride through the journey of writing, murder, Daly City, and answering the important question, what is life?
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.
Aaron Carnes is the author of In Defense of Ska, out now on Clash Books. We talk all things ska, religion, Fishbone, Skankin’ Pickle, god, faith, and empathy.
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.
Author photo: Amy Bee
Marisa Silver is the author of The Mysteries.
Much love to Adam K. Happy birthday and keep up the healing.
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.
Michael Elias is the author of You Can Go Home Now. As a screenwriter his credits include The Jerk, Lush Life, and he co-created Head of the Class, which ran for five seasons.
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.
Jason Novak illustrated the new book by Joe Frank called Ascent. Novak’s previous books include Et Tu, Brute?, and Baseball Epic. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Harpers.
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.
Jordan A. Rothacker is the author of The Death of the Cyborg Oracle. He’s also the author of The Pit, and No Other Stories, and And the Wind Will Wash Away.
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.
Keith Rosson is the author of Folk Songs For Trauma Surgeons. His previous novels include The Mercy of the Tide and Smoke City.
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.
Gabriel Valentin is the author of the graphic novel Digital Lizards of Doom. It’s the first volume of more books to come in 2022 and beyond.
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.
Joshua Mohr is the author of Model Citizen. His novels include Damascus, Fight Song, and Some Things that Meant the World to Me.
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.
Kristin Hannah is the author of the new book The Four Winds. Also check out Firefly Lane on Netflix, a series adapted from one of her earlier books.
Join me for the free Creative Writing Workshop presented by the Los Angeles Public Library on March 10th at 6pm Pacific Time via Zoom. Go to this link to register at least one day before the class.
Thanks for listening.
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 Nicholls is the author of COMEDY WRITER: Craft advice from a veteran of sitcoms, sketch, animation, late night, print and stage.
We chat about his years writing for Alan Thicke, Johnny Carson, Mickey Rooney, and so much more. Enjoy the show.
Thanks for listening.
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.
Jane Rosenberg LaForge is the author of Sisterhood of the Infamous, released yesterday, and Medusa’s Daughter that was released in January.
Thanks for listening.
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.
Rucker Moses is the pen name of the writing team Craig S. Phillips and Harold Hayes Jr.
Together with Theo Gangi they wrote Kingston and The Magician’s Lost and Found. Today I talk with Harold Hayes Jr. about the book, his collaborations with Craig, as well as their company and expansion into virtual reality storytelling.
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.
Sue Buyer is a 92 year old debut author. Her book is called All Things In Time.
Born in the 1920s, she saw The Great Depression, both World Wars, and she graduated from Vassar in 1947. In 1950 she started Columbia Journalism School and after she received her degree she went to work for the Buffalo Evening News as a reporter. Her novel is based on her years as a journalist.
She’s 92 years old, has 25+ years as a journalist to her credit, and waits until her 90s to publish a novel. Beat that!
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Tod Goldberg is the author of The Low Desert. His other books include Gangsterland and Gangster Nation and he runs the Low Residency Creative Writing MFA program at UC Riverside.
February 10th at 6pm I teach this free online creative writing workshop through the Los Angeles Public Library. Go to the link to register, and since it’s online, you can take advantage of this class from anywhere in the world.
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Daniel Pyne is the author of Water Memory. He’s also a screenwriter who wrote Doc Hollywood and The Manchurian Candidate. His TV credits include Bosch and Miami Vice. We talk a lot about his work with Michael J. Fox for Doc Hollywood, which is one of my favorite Michael J. Fox films, so, there was a little starfucking in this episode because I’m such a fan of the film that doesn’t get as much buzz as other Fox films.
February 10th is my free online creative writing workshop presented by the Los Angeles Public Library and I should have a link next week. Worse case scenario, send me an email at dushane@gmail.com so I can forward the Zoom info to you when I get it.
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Chris Matheson is the author of The Buddha’s Story. He’s also the screenwriter for the Bill and Ted films that started with Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. Enjoy our conversation.
Join my 8 week screenwriting workshop starting on January 25th. Class limit is 10, so sign up early if you want to grab your spot.
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Lee Goldberg is the author of Bone Canyon. He’s also a TV writer and producer with a ton of credits including Monk, of which he wrote many novels based on the character, and as we discuss in this episode the Flipper reboot. After you read Bone Canyon check out his many other books.
Join my 8 week screenwriting workshop starting on January 25th. Class limit is 10, so sign up early if you want to grab your spot.
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Mo Daviau is the author of Every Anxious Wave, which may soon become a feature film. Listen to the podcast to find out every gritty detail.
Join my 8 week screenwriting workshop starting on January 25th. Class limit is 10, so sign up early if you want to grab your spot.
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Joshua Samuel Brown is the author of Spinning Karma. He has written 13 Lonely Planet travel guides and his other books include Formosa Moon and Vignettes of Taiwan.
Join my 8 week screenwriting workshop starting on January 25th. Class limit is 10, so sign up early if you want to grab your spot.
Also, I’m teaching Writing Through Grief and Tragedy through UCLA Extension starting on February 16th.
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William Loving is the author of City Of Angles. He was also a long time journalist and we talk all things newsroom and so much more. I hope you enjoy the show.
Join my 8 week screenwriting workshop starting on January 25th. Class limit is 10, so sign up early if you want to grab your spot.
Also, I’m teaching Writing Through Grief and Tragedy through UCLA Extension starting on February 16th.
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Kim Gruenenfelder is the author of My Ex’s Wedding. She was also a writer on Jeopardy for some years and is still involved in TV and film.
Join my 8 week screenwriting workshop starting on January 25th. Class limit is 10, so sign up early if you want to grab your spot.
Also, I’m teaching Writing Through Grief and Tragedy through UCLA Extension starting on February 16th.
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Paul Madonna is the author of Come To Light, a three book set featuring illustrations from the artist who brought you the series All Over Coffee.
My UCLA screenwriting class for Winter quarter is full, but my screenwriting class at Writing Workshops starting January 25th has some openings, so join us:
8-Week Online Beginning Feature Screenwriting, Join List For Next Class
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Daniel Tunnard is the author of Escapes, A Novel About Scrabble. Out now on Unnamed Press.
He’s also a translator and has written two books in Spanish on traveling via bus and train through Argentina. Daniel is a blast to interview and I hope you enjoy this episode.
Join me for a free creative writing workshop through the Los Angeles Public Library on December 2nd at 6pm on Zoom. Full registration instructions are here.
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Kevin Smokler is the director of Vinyl Nation, a documentary about all things vinyl records available until December 1st. Go to www.vinylnationfilm.com to watch it before it leaves.
Kevin is also the author of Brat Pack America: A Love Letter to ’80s Teen Movies.
Join me for a free creative writing workshop through the Los Angeles Public Library on December 2nd at 6pm on Zoom. Full registration instructions are here.
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Iris Berry is the author of All That Shines Under The Hollywood Sign and The Daughters of Bastards. She’s also the co-founder and editor of Punk Hostage Press.
I hope you enjoy the show and buy her books.
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Lee Child is the author of 25 novels in the Jack Reacher series. His latest is The Sentinel, co-authored with his brother. He’s also the editor of The Nicotine Chronicles out now on Akashic Books.
I hope you enjoy the show and buy his books.
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Joseph Di Prisco is the author of The Pope of Brooklyn and Subway to California. His latest novel is The Good Family Fitzgerald out now on Rare Bird Lit.
I hope you enjoy the show and buy his books.
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Lee Gutkind is The Godfather behind creative nonfiction according to Vanity Fair and they’re right. His latest book is the intimate memoir entitled My Last Eight Thousand Days.
He has appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Good Morning America, and now, here on Drinks with Tony. I’m a lucky fella.
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Art Bell is the author of Constant Comedy: How I started Comedy Central and Lost My Sense of Humor.
We talk TV biz, we talk Jon Stewart and The Daily Show, we talk Mystery Science Theater, and we talk even more TV biz.
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Helen Pluckrose is the co-author of Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody.
We chat feminism, patriarchy, and how almost losing her life shifted her career.
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D. B. Ramsey is a former Baptist minister and the author of Speaking of God: We Don’t Know Shit: A Former Minister Reflects on God and Religion.
So if the bible’s is right, we’re both going to hell for this episode.
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Mitzi Szereto is the author of Normal For Norfolk and Pride and Prejudice: Hidden Lusts. Her new book is an anthology she edited called The Best New True Crime Stories: Small Towns.
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Douglas A. Martin is the author of Branwell: A Novel of the Brontë Brother and Wolf.
If you’d like to join my intermediate screenwriting course at UCLA Extension click this link and scroll to remote instruction. Remember to read the prerequisites.
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Rose Andersen is the author of The Heart and Other Monsters: A Memoir.
If you’d like to join my intermediate screenwriting course at UCLA Extension click this link and scroll to remote instruction. Remember to read the prerequisites.
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Judy Gold is the author of Yes, I Can Say That: When They Come for the Comedians, We Are All in Trouble. She has standup specials on HBO and Comedy Central and has been a a ton of TV shows including Louie, Madame Secretary, and Better Things.
If you’d like to join my intermediate screenwriting course at UCLA Extension click this link and scroll to remote instruction. Remember to read the prerequisites.
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Joe Clifford is the author of The Lakehouse. His previous books include the Jay Porter series and Junkie Love.
If you’d like to provide coffee for Drinks with Tony send $10 to Tony via Paypal and I’ll give you or your business name huge THANK YOU at the front of the next episode.
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Neal Pollack is the author of Pothead: My Life as a Marijuana Addict in the Age of Legal Weed, as well as many other books. He’s also a three time winner on Jeopardy.
If you’d like to join my intermediate screenwriting course at UCLA Extension click this link and scroll to remote instruction. Remember to read the prerequisites.
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Richard Kadrey is the author of Ballistic Kiss, the 11th novel in the Sandman Slim series. He’s currently writing the 12th and final Sandman Slim novel.
Richard came on Drinks with Tony about 15 years ago when we were in studio at Radio Valencia in San Francisco to discuss his first Sandman Slim book. It’s so much fun when all of this comes around years later.
We talk a lot about graves, like Hollywood Forever, that appears in the Sandman Slim novels as well as Pere Lachaise.
My class at UCLA Extension, Writing for the Screen II, starts on September 29th. Join us.
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Carolyn Terry and A. M. Black are the co-authors of Tenderloin available from The Outsider Agency.
The Tenderloin is a neighborhood in San Francisco that’s often misunderstood, usually just driven through with the windows up and doors locked, and it has taken a really hard hit since the pandemic. Black has worked there for 30 years as a bartender, I spent some of my years living in the TL, as the locals call it, after moving from the Mission District, and Carolyn has spent a major part of her SF life there as well.
My class at UCLA Extension, Writing for the Screen II, starts on September 29th. Join us.
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Barbara Bottner is the author of I Am Here Now, a Novel in Free Verse. Sign up for her virtual launch party here, happening on August 15th.
Barbara is a NY Times best selling author of over 40 books, her story is fascinating from her time in NYC, working with Sam Shepard, to her creative methods, and relocating to the wonderful city of Los Angeles.
My class at UCLA Extension, Writing for the Screen II, starts on September 29th. Join us.
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Joe Meno is the author of Between Everything and Nothing: The Journey of Seidu Mohammed and Razak Iyal and the Quest for Asylum. Joe’s other books include Hairstyles of the Damned, The Boy Detective Falls, and Office Girl.
Join my online 8-week screenwriting workshop starting August 3rd at WritingWorkshops.com as well as my free creative writing workshop on August 5th at 6pm via Zoom at LAPL.org.
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Miriam Feldman is the author of He Came In With It, a Portrait of Motherhood and Madness. It’s not all tragedy as there are layers and Miriam’s memoir is beautiful on every level.
Enjoy the show.
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Arthur Nersesian is the author of The Five Books of (Robert) Moses. His other books include The Fuck-Up, Mesopotamia, Suicide Casanova, and Manhattan Loverboy.
Check him out on Thursday at 7pm Eastern time when he’s in conversation with Bob Odenkirk regarding his new 1506 page book.
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Tommie Vaughn is the author of This Rock ‘n’ Roll Dream, the final book of the Frankie Spencer Trilogy.
She’s also the front woman of Wall Of Tom. We chat juicy stories about how she started as a receptionist at a recording studio in Los Angeles and met all of her heroes, including Dave Grohl. There was a trick to her longevity in the music scene and she talks about that as well.
We had fun, and I hope you do too as you listen to episode 93.
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Kim Dower is the author of Sunbathing on Tyrone Power’s Grave, Slice of Moon, and The Soapy Shrimp Boat. She was the City Poet Laureate of West Hollywood from 2016-2018.
Join me July 1st at 6pm Pacific time for a free online creative writing workshop at the Los Angeles Public Library. Go to LAPL.org to sign up for the event.
Thanks for listening, remember to rate the show wherever you receive your podcast feed.
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Isaac Fitzgerald is the author of the new children’s book How To Be A Pirate. His previous books include Pen & Ink and Knives & Ink. He’s a regular guest on The Today Show and I drilled him with too many questions about every minute detail of what it’s like to appear on the show….it turns out it’s oddly similar to appearing on Drinks with Tony.
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John Martin Fischer is the author of Death, Immortality, and Meaning in Life.
Want to join my class at UCLA Extension? There is ONE spot left as of Tuesday evening…and sometimes a person drops before the quarter begins…. Writing The First Screenplay, go here and search for DuShane.
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Danny Plotnick is the author of Super 8: An illustrated History, released yesterday on Rare Bird Books. He is the King of Super 8. Danny’s films include Skate Witches and I’m Not Fascinating – The Movie.
Writing questions? Send them to dushane [@] gmail.com and I’ll get to them on the air.
Want to join my class at UCLA Extension, Writing The First Screenplay, go here and search for DuShane.
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Billy Van Zandt is the author of Get In The Car, Jane! Adventures In The TV Wasteland. His TV resume is quite impressive and he is the recipient of a People’s Choice Award, a Prism Award, and two NAACP Image Awards. He was also nominated for an Emmy for his work with I Love Lucy.
Writing questions? Send them to dushane [@] gmail.com and I’ll get to them on the air.
To sign up for my free online creative writing workshop register with the Los Feliz library by clicking this link.
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Deborah A. Lott is the author of Don’t Go Crazy Without Me: A Tragicomic Memoir. She’s also the author of In Session: The Bond Between Women and Their Therapists.
Thanks for listening and see you next week.
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Adam Gnade is the author of This Is the End of Something But It’s Not the End of You and The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Fighting the Big Motherfuckin’ Sad.
Check out more books as well as his records at https://adamgnade.bandcamp.com.
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Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets.
Carla Malden is the author of Search Heartache. She’s also the co-author of Where Do I Start? with her father Karl Malden, and Afterimage: A Broken Hearted Memoir of a Charmed Life.
Join my online screenwriting class at UCLA Extension starting June 24th for 10 weeks. Sign up here.
I hope you enjoy the interview, you can listen and download it from here or enjoy the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets.
Maggie Downs is the author of Braver Than You Think coming out May 12th on Counterpoint Press. She’s also a skydiver, which is way braver than I could ever be, and we discuss that on the show.
This episode was taped pre-pandemic, so, in person, at The Alcove, over drinks. Why does that feel like another era.
Enjoy the show, and below is how the info on how to join my monthly free creative writing workshop online through the Los Angeles Public Library on May 6th.
The Los Feliz Branch Public Library has moved its Creative Writing Workshop online!
Tony DuShane will hold a free 90-minute Writer’s Workshop on Wednesday, May 6 at 6:00 PM via Zoom.
If you’d like to attend please send a email to mpanzera@lapl.org to obtain the link and password to the session.
This free Creative Writing Workshop is presented by UCLA instructor Tony DuShane, writer of the novel “Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk,” now a major motion picture from director Eric Stoltz.
Nick Flynn is the author of, Stay: threads, conversations, collaborations, out now on ZE Books. He’s also the author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City that was made into the film starring Robert DeNiro called Being Flynn.
If you’d like to see a video version of this interview, along with a music performance by Rykarda Parasol, check out this link, THIS LINK. The video version of the show is currently called Drinks with Tony ON VIDEO.
I hope you enjoy the interview, you can listen and download it from here or enjoy the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets.
Beth Lisick is the author of Edie On The Green Screen. It’s her debut novel and she’s also best selling NY Times author with earlier non-fiction including Everybody Into The Pool and Helping Me Help Myself.
She’s the co-founder of the Porch Light Storytelling Series and we chat a bit about our stints as exclusive background actors for big time TV shows and films.
Remember to check out www.tonydushane.com if you’re interested in book coaching.
I hope you enjoy the interview, you can listen and download it from here or enjoy the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets.
Alia Volz is the author of Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco.
Remember to check out www.tonydushane.com if you’re interested in book coaching.
I hope you enjoy the interview, you can listen and download it from here or enjoy the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets.
Cara Black is the author of Three Hours in ParisThe Hours in Paris, her first stand alone novel. Cara is known for 19 novels of of the literary investigation series that follows Aimee Leduc, a private investigator taking us through the nooks and crannies of the arrondissements of Paris.
I hope you enjoy the interview, you can listen and download it from here or enjoy the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets.
Chip Jacobs is the author of Arroyo, out now on Rare Bird Books. His other books include Smogtown, Strange As It Seems, and The People’s Republic of Chemicals.
I teach a free online creative writing workshop April 1st at 6pm Pacific, 9pm Eastern, go to TonyDuShane.com for more information and join us wherever you are in the big wide world.
I hope you enjoy the interview, you can listen and download it from here or enjoy the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets.
Michael Shermer is the author of Giving The Devil his Due: Reflections of a Scientific Humanist. He’s also the founder of Skeptic Magazine and used to be a Born Again Christian, so we got to bond on our Jesus Christ roots.
Remember April 1st at 6pm I’m doing my creative writing workshop that I usually do at the Los Angeles Public Library live online. Go to tonydushane.com for information on that.
Enjoy the show, take care of each other, there’s a lot of fear and anxiety out there, so remember to give people a break, we’re all in this together, and one day we will ALL HUG IT OUT.
Robert Anasi, the author of Last Bohemia, Scenes From the Life of Williamsburg and The Gloves: A Boxing Chronicle, joins me this week on the show.
This was recorded a few weeks ago to give context, in simpler times, or, are these simpler times? The eternal question. Anasi is a fine fella, we teach together at UCLA Extension and for some odd reason we tend to drink lots of coffee together, even at a bar.
I have upcoming classes at UCLA Extension, online, and book coaching options, so check out the link if you’re interested.
I hope you enjoy the interview, you can listen and download it from here or enjoy the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and