Drinks with Tony

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]