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Drinks with Tony
by Tony DuShane
Tony DuShane chats with authors and storytellers. Started in 2002, Drinks with Tony has aired on KFJC, Pirate Cat Radio, and Radio Valencia. DuShane is the author and screenwriter of Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk, directed by Eric Stoltz, available on Amazon Prime.
Episodes
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Adam Wilson #369
Adam Wilson is the author of Fail Sons: A Novel. We chat the road trip that inspired his new novel, the cult of baseball, Little Miss Sunshine, and so much more. Novel Writing Workshop with Tony DuShane starts Oct. 22nd for five weeks. We’ll meet every Thursday night, all information to register…
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Marianne C. Bohr #368
Marianne C. Bohr is the author of When Paris Whispers: A Novel. We chat how to approach a novel vs. a memoir, graveyards in Paris, and marrying her high school sweetheart. Novel Writing Workshop with Tony DuShane starts Oct. 22nd for five weeks. We’ll meet every Thursday night, all information to...
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James Elkins #367
James Elkins is the author of Stories, Like Illnesses. It’s book one in his five book series on Unnamed Press. We discuss Infinite Jest, writing one novel in your career, how he structures his huge novel project, and so much more. Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and...
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Karl Koweski #366
Karl Koweski is the author of Mister Joe’s Pirates. We chat about olden times when he was a writer for Cherry Bleeds, why he stopped writing for seven years, living in Alabama, and so much more. Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs...
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Susan Coll #365
Susan Coll is the author of Word Salad. We chat about two-book deals, teaching lawyers how to write fiction, how to stay calm during a book release, 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...
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Michele McDannold #364
Michele McDannold is the publisher of Roadside Press. We chat how to start a press, working with authors, the literary scenes in Ohio and Pittsburgh, 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...
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Michael Elias #363
Michael Elias is the author of Bender’s L.A. He’s also the creator of the TV series Head of the Class and has a long list of TV and film credits. We chat specifically about The Head of the Class episode that was filmed in the USSR in 1988, as well as our mutual admiration for Henry Miller, and…
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Romie Stott #362
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...
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K. S. Haddock #361
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…
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Justin Phillips #360
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...
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Lee Upton #359
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...
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Adam Steiner #358
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...
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Alta Ifland #357
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...
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Kennedy Weible #356
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. Subscribe to the show…
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Hilary Plattner #355
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’...
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Pamela Redmond #354
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. Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Spotify,...
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Rachel Walther #353
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. Subscribe to the show on iTunes,...
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Jaydi Samuels Kuba #352
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. Subscribe to the…
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Ed Lin #351
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,...
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Frances Crawford #350
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...
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Darls Centola #349
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...
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Jared Chiang-Zeizel #348
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…
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Kirk Ellis #347
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...
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Grant Faulkner #346
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...
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Joe Clifford and Barry Bunin #345
Joe Clifford and Barry Bunin join me to discuss their book Inside CDD Vault. We chat drugs, Silicon Valley, advances with psychedelics, and so much more. Subscribe to DuShane.substack.com and listen to Drinks with Tony on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs...
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Jaime Parker Stickle #344
Jaime Parker Stickle is the author of Vicious Cycle, her debut novel. We chat the fun of colon cancer screenings, how I shouldn’t be a misogynist anymore, life of marriage and kids, how every date needs proof of no STDs even before the first kiss, and so much more. Subscribe to…
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Gail Butensky #342
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...
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Cara Black #341
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...
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Andrew Rubin #340
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...
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Tod Goldberg #339
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...
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Chip Jacobs #338
Chip Jacobs is the author of Later Days: A Novel. We chat about NDEs, the afterlife, God, when we made fools of ourselves in front of celebrities, and so much more. Only SIX spots in my December Screenwriting Workshop, the first annual holiday break writing intensive, join us. Subscribe to...
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Carol Tyler #337
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...
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Darrin Doyle #336
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…
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Joe McGinniss Jr. #335
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....
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Rob Grant #334 Writer/Director of This Too Shall Pass
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…
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H. Lee Barnes #333
H. Lee Barnes is the author of Emerald City Blues: A Novel. 10-Day Screenwriting Outline Workshop is open for registration for Dec 22 – Jan 2, Click here to register. Lee and I discuss why people lie, combat in Vietnam, dating advice for every generation, and so much more. Subscribe to...
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Stefanie Leder #332
Stefanie Leder is the author of Love, Coffee & Revolution: A Novel. We discuss how she became a TV writer and showrunner, how she wrote this debut novel 20 years ago and it finally came out, how her politics have shifted over time, and so much more. Subscribe to DuShane.substack.com and listen to...
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Caitlin Myer – Caitlin Walks At Night – Ep. #331
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...
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Carlo Rotella #330
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…
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Todd Solondz and Larry Clark #329
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…
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Terry Zwigoff Ep. #328
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…
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Kerfuffling Genitals by Tony DuShane Ep. 327
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....
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Nikki Nash #326
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...
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Fadi Zaghmout #325
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...
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Alecia McKenzie #324
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. Subscribe to DuShane.substack.com…
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Tad Crawford #323
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…
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James Elkins #322
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: Register here for AFTERNOON classes and Register here for EVENING classes. James and I chat Exegesis by Philip K. Dick, Finnegan’s...
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Ralph Steadman #321
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...
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Kurt Baumeister #320
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...
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Jeffrey Konvitz #319
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...
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Tony DuShane chats with authors and storytellers. Started in 2002, Drinks with Tony has aired on KFJC, Pirate Cat Radio, and Radio Valencia. DuShane is the author and screenwriter of Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk, directed by Eric Stoltz, available on Amazon Prime.
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Tony DuShane chats with authors and storytellers. Started in 2002, Drinks with Tony has aired on KFJC, Pirate Cat Radio, and Radio Valencia. DuShane is the author and screenwriter of Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk, directed by Eric Stoltz, available on Amazon Prime.
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