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 more. Novel Writing Workshop with Tony DuShane starts Oct. 22nd for five weeks. We’ll meet every Thursday night, all information to register is here . Subscribe to the show on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora ,  Stitcher , and other podcast outlet...

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 register is here . Subscribe to the show on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora ,  Stitcher , and othe...

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 other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4 p.m. on 92.9FM Los Gatos, 101.9FM S...

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 every Tuesday at 4 p.m. on 92.9FM Los Gatos, 101.9FM Santa Cruz, and 91.1FM Portland on Pi...

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 92.9FM Los Gatos, 101.9FM Santa Cruz, and 91.1FM Portland on Pirate Cat Radio.

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 92.9FM Los Gatos, 101.9FM Santa Cruz, and 91.1FM Portland on Pirate Cat Radio.

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 his new novel Bender’s L.A. Subscribe to the show on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora ,  S...

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 podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4 p.m. on 92.9FM Los Gatos, 101.9FM Santa Cruz, and...

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 4 p.m. on 92.9FM Los Gatos, 101.9FM Santa Cruz, and 91.1FM Portland on Pirate Cat Radio.

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 podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4 p.m. on 92.9FM Los Gatos, 101.9FM Santa Cr...

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 Tuesday at 4 p.m. on 92.9FM Los Gatos, 101.9FM Santa Cruz, and 91.1FM Portland on Pirate Cat R...

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 biography, and what records from Nick’s back catalogue are fantastic and others tha...

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 States. She found her way to Northern California and imbedded herself in the literary community. It&#8217...

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 on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora ,  Stitcher , and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tu...

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’ be used. Her process of bringing up these wounds of the past, including the griefs a...

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 ,  Pandora ,  Stitcher , and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4 p.m. on 92.9FM Lo...

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 ,  Spotify ,  Pandora ,  Stitcher , and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4 p.m. on 92...

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 show on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora ,  Stitcher , and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday...

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, including New Order, The Sugarcubes, Public Image Ltd., and of course writing novels. The Novel...

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 reach your goals, join my workshop linked below. The Novel Approach Workshop with Tony DuShane April 20...

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 religion. Join Darls and I at Book Soup in West Hollywood on April 7th as we discuss her memoir...

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 Librar y on 1874 Hillhurst Ave., Los Angeles, just show up. Subscribe to  DuShane.substack.com  and listen to Drinks with Tony on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pan...

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 Paul Giamatti. Feb 4th @ 6pm:  Tony’s Free Creative Writing Workshop at Los Feliz Librar y on 187...

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 Librar y on 1874 Hillhurst Ave., Los Angeles, just show up. Subscribe to  DuShane.substack.com  and listen to Drinks with Ton...

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 every Tuesday at 4pm on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Santa Cruz.