Shows
Drinks with TonyJared Chiang-Zeizel #348Jared 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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2026-02-1858 minDrinks with TonyJared Chiang-Zeizel #348Jared 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.
Subscribe to DuShane.substack.com and listen to Drinks with Tony on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4pm on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Santa Cruz.
2026-02-1858 min
Drinks with TonyKirk Ellis #347Kirk 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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2026-02-0453 minDrinks with TonyKirk Ellis #347Kirk 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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2026-02-0453 minDrinks with TonyGrant Faulkner #346Grant 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.
Subscribe to DuShane.substack.com and listen to Drinks with Tony on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4pm on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Santa Cruz.
2026-01-2749 minDrinks with TonyGrant Faulkner #346Grant 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.
Subscribe to DuShane.substack.com and listen to Drinks with Tony on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4pm on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Santa Cruz.
2026-01-2749 minDrinks with TonyJoe Clifford and Barry Bunin #345Joe 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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2026-01-2147 minDrinks with TonyJoe Clifford and Barry Bunin #345Joe 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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2026-01-2147 min
Drinks with TonyJaime Parker Stickle #344Jaime 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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2026-01-1353 minDrinks with TonyJaime Parker Stickle #344Jaime 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 DuShane.substack.com and listen to Drinks with Tony on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4pm on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Santa Cruz.
2026-01-1353 min
Drinks with TonyTa-ta 2025, Tony DuShane Talks From His KitchenTony DuShane chats from his kitchen about the best books of 2025, Paris, getting over agoraphobia, the human condition, and finding out mom has stage 4 cancer before taping, which I almost canceled and just did a repeat, but I felt the urgency to do the show anyway.
It’s a sad and beautiful world.
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2025-12-3042 minDrinks with TonyTa-ta 2025, Tony DuShane Talks From His KitchenTony DuShane chats from his kitchen about the best books of 2025, Paris, getting over agoraphobia, the human condition, and finding out mom has stage 4 cancer before taping, which I almost canceled and just did a repeat, but I felt the urgency to do the show anyway.
It’s a sad and beautiful world.
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2025-12-3042 min
Drinks with TonyGail Butensky #342Gail 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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2025-12-2354 minDrinks with TonyGail Butensky #342Gail 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.
Subscribe to DuShane.substack.com and listen to Drinks with Tony on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs e...
2025-12-2354 minDrinks with TonyCara Black #341Cara 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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2025-12-1657 minDrinks with TonyCara Black #341Cara 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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2025-12-1657 minDrinks with TonyAndrew Rubin #340Andrew 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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2025-12-0958 minDrinks with TonyAndrew Rubin #340Andrew 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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2025-12-0958 minDrinks with TonyTod Goldberg #339Tod 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.
Subscribe to DuShane.substack.com and listen to Drinks with Tony on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4pm on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat Radio.
2025-12-0257 minDrinks with TonyTod Goldberg #339Tod 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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2025-12-0257 min
Drinks with TonyChip Jacobs #338Chip 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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2025-11-261h 07Drinks with TonyChip Jacobs #338Chip 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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2025-11-261h 07
Drinks with TonyCarol Tyler #337Carol 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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2025-11-051h 14Drinks with TonyCarol Tyler #337Carol Tyler is an American painter, educator, comedian, and eleven-time Eisner Award-nominated cartoonist known for her autobiographical comics. Her latest book is The Ephemerata: Shaping the Exquisite Nature of Grief.
Registration for my Screenplay Holiday Workshop is open, work on a screenplay during the holiday break.
Subscribe to DuShane.substack.com and listen to Drinks with Tony on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4pm on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat Radio.
2025-11-051h 14Drinks with TonyDarrin Doyle #336Darrin Doyle is the author of The Dark Will End The Dark: Short Stories.
We chat great cities of the mid-west, classic novels and short stories, working with small presses versus the large publishers, and so much more.
Register for my intensive 10-Day Screenwriting Outline Workshop Dec 22 – Jan 2,
Subscribe to DuShane.substack.com and listen to Drinks with Tony on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4pm on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat Radio.
2025-10-2850 minDrinks with TonyDarrin Doyle #336Darrin Doyle is the author of The Dark Will End The Dark: Short Stories.
We chat great cities of the mid-west, classic novels and short stories, working with small presses versus the large publishers, and so much more.
Register for my intensive 10-Day Screenwriting Outline Workshop Dec 22 – Jan 2,
Subscribe to DuShane.substack.com and listen to Drinks with Tony on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4pm on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat Radio.
2025-10-2850 minDrinks with TonyJoe 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.
Register for my intensive 10-Day Screenwriting Outline Workshop Dec 22 – Jan 2,
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2025-10-241h 14Drinks with TonyJoe 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.
Register for my intensive 10-Day Screenwriting Outline Workshop Dec 22 – Jan 2,
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2025-10-241h 14Drinks with TonyRob Grant #334 Writer/Director of This Too Shall PassRob 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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2025-10-2155 minDrinks with TonyRob Grant #334 Writer/Director of This Too Shall PassRob Grant is the writer and director of This Too Shall Pass coming out October 24, 2025.
It’s a superb coming-of-age film set in the 1980s featuring a Mormon protagonist trying to figure out love and life as a teenager.
Register for my intensive 10-Day Screenwriting Outline Workshop Dec 22 – Jan 2,
Subscribe to DuShane.substack.com and listen to Drinks with Tony on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4pm on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat Radio.
2025-10-2155 minDrinks with TonyH. Lee Barnes #333H. 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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2025-10-1457 minDrinks with TonyH. Lee Barnes #333H. Lee Barnes is the author of Emerald City Blues: A Novel.
10-Day Screenwriting Outline Workshop is open for registration for Dec 22 – Jan 2, Click here to register.
Lee and I discuss why people lie, combat in Vietnam, dating advice for every generation, and so much more.
Subscribe to DuShane.substack.com and listen to Drinks with Tony on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4pm on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat Radio.
2025-10-1457 minDrinks with TonyStefanie Leder #332Stefanie Leder is the author of Love, Coffee & Revolution: A Novel. We discuss how she became a TV writer and showrunner, how she wrote this debut novel 20 years ago and it finally came out, how her politics have shifted over time, and so much more.
Subscribe to DuShane.substack.com and listen to Drinks with Tony on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4pm and Friday at 11am on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat Radio.
2025-10-0755 minDrinks with TonyStefanie Leder #332Stefanie Leder is the author of Love, Coffee & Revolution: A Novel. We discuss how she became a TV writer and showrunner, how she wrote this debut novel 20 years ago and it finally came out, how her politics have shifted over time, and so much more.
Subscribe to DuShane.substack.com and listen to Drinks with Tony on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4pm and Friday at 11am on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat Radio.
2025-10-0755 minDrinks with TonyCaitlin 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 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 th...
2025-09-3059 minDrinks with TonyCaitlin 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 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 th...
2025-09-3059 minDrinks with TonyCarlo Rotella #330Carlo 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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2025-09-1657 minDrinks with TonyCarlo Rotella #330Carlo Rotella is the author of What Can I Get Out Of This? – Teaching and Learning in a Classroom Full of Skeptics.
We discuss his optimism for college students engaged in reading novels, why many of his students hate reading House Of Mirth and what they can learn from that, how pulp novels shaped his younger reader self, and so much more.
Register is open for my novel writing class The Novel Approach Workshop with Tony DuShane starting on Sept. 19.
Subscribe to MAH SUBSTACKY for more book news, storytelling breakdowns as well as some...
2025-09-1657 min
Drinks with TonyTodd Solondz and Larry Clark #329I 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...
2025-09-1050 minDrinks with TonyTodd Solondz and Larry Clark #329I caught up with Todd Solondz in San Francisco in 2004 when he was promoting Palindromes. I caught up with Larry Clark when he was promoting Wassup Rockers in 2005. These are two of my favorite interviews from the Drinks with Tony archives. I hope you enjoy.
Register for my novel writing class The Novel Approach Workshop with Tony DuShane starting on Sept. 19.
Subscribe to MAH SUBSTACKY for more book news, storytelling breakdowns as well as some nervous breakdowns.
Subscribe to DuShane.substack.com and listen to Drinks with Tony on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other...
2025-09-1050 minDrinks with TonyTerry Zwigoff Ep. #328Terry 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...
2025-09-0247 minDrinks with TonyTerry Zwigoff Ep. #328Terry 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...
2025-09-0247 min
Drinks with TonyKerfuffling Genitals by Tony DuShane Ep. 327Tony 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.
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2025-08-2551 minDrinks with TonyKerfuffling Genitals by Tony DuShane Ep. 327Tony 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.
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2025-08-2551 min
Drinks with TonyNikki Nash #326Nikki 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.
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2025-08-1959 minDrinks with TonyNikki Nash #326Nikki 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.
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2025-08-1959 min
Drinks with TonyFadi 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 taboo subjects before his government cracked down on what you can say as a blogger, and so much more.
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Check out my four favorite conte...
2025-08-1259 minDrinks with TonyFadi 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 taboo subjects before his government cracked down on what you can say as a blogger, and so much more.
Subscribe to MAH SUBSTACKY for more book news, storytelling breakdowns as well as some nervous breakdowns.
Check out my four favorite conte...
2025-08-1259 min
Drinks with TonyAlecia McKenzie #324Alecia 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 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.
2025-07-2859 minDrinks with TonyAlecia McKenzie #324Alecia 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 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.
2025-07-2859 min
Drinks with TonyTad Crawford #323Tad 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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2025-07-2258 minDrinks with TonyTad Crawford #323Tad 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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2025-07-2258 min
Drinks with TonyJames Elkins #322James Elkins is the author of A Short Introduction to Anneliese out now on Unnamed Press.
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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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2025-07-1559 minDrinks with TonyJames Elkins #322James 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
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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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2025-07-1559 min
Drinks with TonyRalph Steadman #321Ralph 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.
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2025-07-0830 minDrinks with TonyRalph Steadman #321Ralph 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.
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2025-07-0830 min
Drinks with TonyKurt Baumeister #320Kurt 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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2025-06-2548 minDrinks with TonyKurt Baumeister #320Kurt 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.
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.
2025-06-2548 min
Drinks with TonyJeffrey Konvitz #319Jeffrey 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...
2025-06-1757 minDrinks with TonyJeffrey Konvitz #319Jeffrey 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...
2025-06-1757 min
Drinks with TonyTom Lutz #318Tom 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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2025-06-1056 minDrinks with TonyTom Lutz #318Tom 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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2025-06-1056 min
Drinks with TonyTed Kessler on Billy Childish #317Ted 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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2025-06-0452 minDrinks with TonyTed Kessler on Billy Childish #317Ted 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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2025-06-0452 min
Drinks with TonyJon Ronson #316Jon 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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2025-05-2033 minDrinks with TonyJon Ronson #316Jon 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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2025-05-2033 min
Drinks with TonyLucinda Berry #315Lucinda 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.
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2025-05-1353 minDrinks with TonyLucinda Berry #315Lucinda 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.
Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4 p.m. and Friday at 11 a.m. on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat Radio.
2025-05-1353 min
Drinks with TonyRachel Paris #314Rachel 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...
2025-05-0759 minDrinks with TonyRachel Paris #314Rachel 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...
2025-05-0759 min
Drinks with TonyChuck Klosterman #313Chuck 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.
2025-05-0645 minDrinks with TonyChuck Klosterman #313Chuck 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.
2025-05-0645 min
Drinks with TonyMatthieu Ricard #312Matthieu 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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2025-04-0835 minDrinks with TonyMatthieu Ricard #312Matthieu 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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2025-04-0835 min
Drinks with TonyMarlon James #311Marlon 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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2025-03-3155 minDrinks with TonyMarlon James #311Marlon 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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2025-03-3155 min
Drinks with TonyColum McCain #310Colum 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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2025-03-2658 minDrinks with TonyColum McCain #310Colum 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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2025-03-2658 minDrinks with TonyRichard Hell #309Richard 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...
2025-03-1953 minDrinks with TonyRichard Hell #309Richard 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...
2025-03-1953 minDrinks with TonyMiranda July #308Miranda 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 int...
2025-03-131h 02Drinks with TonyMiranda July #308Miranda 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 int...
2025-03-131h 02
Drinks with TonyKim Dower #301Kim 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.
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Su...
2025-01-1056 minDrinks with TonyKim Dower #301Kim 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.
Su...
2025-01-1056 min
Drinks with TonyTony’s Complaints to God #298Tony 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 EU
Online chat all month long.
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2024-12-121h 06Drinks with TonyTony’s Complaints to God #298Tony 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 EU
Online chat all month long.
Subscribe to the...
2024-12-121h 06
Drinks with TonyTony DuShane’s Book Smash #297From 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 GM...
2024-12-051h 02Drinks with TonyTony DuShane’s Book Smash #297From 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 GM...
2024-12-051h 02
Drinks with TonyJean-Paul L. Garnier #294Jean-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, 2024
Last Summer in the City
by Gianfranco Calligarich
Zoom meeting October 26th, join us.
Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also a...
2024-10-241h 00Drinks with TonyJean-Paul L. Garnier #294Jean-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, 2024
Last Summer in the City
by Gianfranco Calligarich
Zoom meeting October 26th, join us.
Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also a...
2024-10-241h 00
Drinks with TonySacha Mardou #293Sacha Mardou is the author of Past Tense: Facing Family Secrets and Finding Myself in Therapy, A Graphic Memoir.
We discuss growing up in crazy families and religions, Internal Family Systems therapy, the violence porn of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Pillowgate, and so much more….it’s loads of laughs and a wail of weeping.
Read Along with Tony DuShane
October 11 – 26, 2024
Last Summer in the City
by Gianfranco Calligarich
Zoom meeting October 26th, join us.
Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every T...
2024-10-1759 minDrinks with TonySacha Mardou #293Sacha Mardou is the author of Past Tense: Facing Family Secrets and Finding Myself in Therapy, A Graphic Memoir.
We discuss growing up in crazy families and religions, Internal Family Systems therapy, the violence porn of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Pillowgate, and so much more….it’s loads of laughs and a wail of weeping.
Read Along with Tony DuShane
October 11 – 26, 2024
Last Summer in the City
by Gianfranco Calligarich
Zoom meeting October 26th, join us.
Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every T...
2024-10-1759 min
Drinks with TonyKes Trester #292Kes 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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Read Along with Tony DuShane
October 11 – 26, 2024
Last 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 San...
2024-10-101h 03Drinks with TonyKes Trester #292Kes 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.
Sign up for:
Read Along with Tony DuShane
October 11 – 26, 2024
Last 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 San...
2024-10-101h 03
Drinks with TonyGabriel Hart #291Gabriel 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 Americ...
2024-09-191h 00
Drinks with TonyKrystal Kenney #290Krystal 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...
2024-09-1248 min
Drinks with TonyMarianne Leone #289Marianne 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...
2024-09-0556 minDrinks with TonyMarianne Leone #289Marianne 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...
2024-09-0556 min
Drinks with TonyTony DuShane’s Writing Workshop #278Danielle 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, join absolute beginners and grizzled intermediate writers coming together to 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.
2024-06-131h 00Drinks with TonyTony DuShane’s Writing Workshop #278Danielle 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, join absolute beginners and grizzled intermediate writers coming together to 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.
2024-06-131h 00