Drinks with Tony

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]