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A nonprofit writing and arts podcast aimed at exploring various aspects to the craft of writing, reading, drinking, and literature's impact on society and pop culture. A mix of raunchy humor and useful information, DPW is sure to have something you'll enjoy.
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Tuesday Jan 03, 2023
Tuesday Jan 03, 2023
We open things up by talking about anime for way too long. After that, we discuss our biggest successes, failures, and controversies of 2022. We talk about submitting work, creating author websites, the importance of social media, the publishing industry, and many more exciting topics.
We end the show by going over our personal writing and reading goals for 2023.
Check us out on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook @dpwpodcast.
You can follow Caleb's writing journey at www.calebjamesk.com
Tuesday Dec 27, 2022
Tuesday Dec 27, 2022
With Christmas here and the year coming to a close, we take a look back and discuss all the books we've read in 2022.
You can follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook @dpwpodcast
Tuesday Dec 20, 2022
Tuesday Dec 20, 2022
In this episode, we are doing something different. We're playing a game! More specifically, Name That Author!
The rules of the game are simple. Caleb has given Spencer a long list of authors and as he reads a random excerpt from the work of those authors, it's up to Spencer to see if he can guess who wrote what.
If you'd like to play along, here is the list:
Kurt Vonnegut, David Foster Wallace, Haruki Murakami, James Joyce, Anthony Burgess, Yukio Mishima, Cormac McCarthy, Natsume Soseki, Stephen King, Ryu Murakami, Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, Paul E. Cooley, Bram Stoker, J.D. Salinger, Chinua Achebe, Andy Weir, Walt Whitman, H.P. Lovecraft, H.G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, J.R.R. Tolkien, Máirtín Ó Cadhain, Nicolás Obregón
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
We start the episode off with a quick announcement. After that, we discuss Alan Moore's method of deconstructing characters and building them back up. Then we move on to critics and why we dislike them. Finally, we talk about the importance of breaking your routine and doing things that make you uncomfortable.
Be sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram @dpwpodcast
Tuesday Dec 06, 2022
Tuesday Dec 06, 2022
For the cold open, we talk about epistolary storytelling. After that, we have a long conversation about what five writers we would most like to have a roundtable discussion with. We also include honorable mentions and dishonorable mentions with our picks.
You can follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook @dpwpodcast
Tuesday Nov 29, 2022
Tuesday Nov 29, 2022
We go British with our cold open because Caleb started watching Peaky Blinders. After that, we go into a lot of unprofessional ramblings and musings about languages, different cultures and their impacts on literature, modern and past US politics, and why Caleb is so damn adamant about making dueling to the death legal again.
You can follow us @dpwpodcast on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Tuesday Nov 22, 2022
Tuesday Nov 22, 2022
For the cold open, we have a quick chat about nostalgia and how it might be ruining fiction. After that, poet and fiction writer Bryce Johle joins us to discuss some of the problems with modern fiction and to a degree, modern TV and movies as well.
Some of the issues we discuss are how modern fiction isn't challenging, doesn't take artistic risks, has boring characters, and many other things.
This is a long one but we had a great time recording it. If you want to share your opinions, you can follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook @dpwpodcast
Tuesday Nov 15, 2022
Tuesday Nov 15, 2022
It's Caleb's birthday! Well, at least it was when we recorded this episode. To celebrate taking his next step toward the grave, Caleb drinks some fine Hibiki whiskey and uses Spencer as a means to brainstorm his latest story.
You can follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook @dpwpodcast
Tuesday Nov 08, 2022
Tuesday Nov 08, 2022
Today we discuss some novels that we consider great. Not good, not awesome, but truly great! After that, we talk about what things literary magazine editors are tired of seeing in submissions. Here's a hint: EVERYTHING!
Caleb ends the episode by doing some live editing of an old story he's fixing up.
You can follow us @dpwpodcast on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
Monday Oct 31, 2022
Monday Oct 31, 2022
We begin our episode with our annual Edgar Allan Poe toast to celebrate Halloween. This year we read Spirits of the Dead and then discuss Poe's booze of choice. We also talk about the absinthe we drank for the toast.
After that, we are super excited to have Nicolás Obregón back on the podcast. Author of the Inspector Iwata trilogy—featuring the novels Blue Light Yokohama, Sins as Scarlett, and Unknown Male—Nic is the host of the new true crime podcast, Faceless.
Throughout this episode, we discuss the infamous Setagaya family murder that occurred in Tokyo in the year 2000. The murder was so brutal that it not only shocked Japan, it changed its society. We cover some possible theories of the murders as well as discuss some things that didn't make it on Faceless (put out by USG Audio, the podcast arm of Universal Studio Group).
At the end of the episode, Nic tells us about his current projects and we discuss writing for a bit.
You can read more about Faceless at https://deadline.com/2022/09/usg-audio-faceless-true-crime-podcast-1235128782/
You can also check out Nic's other work at http://obregonbooks.com/
Finally, you can follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram @dpwpodcast