Drinks with Tony

Deborah A. Lott is the author of Don’t Go Crazy Without Me: A Tragicomic Memoir . She’s also the author of In Session: The Bond Between Women and Their Therapists . Thanks for listening and see you next week. Drinks with Tony is on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora ,  Stitcher , and other podcast outlets.

Adam Gnade is the author of This Is the End of Something But It’s Not the End of You and The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Fighting the Big Motherfuckin’ Sad . Check out more books as well as his records at  https://adamgnade.bandcamp.com . Thanks for listening and see you next week. Drinks with Tony is on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora ,  Stitcher , and other podcast outlets.

Carla Malden is the author of Search Heartache . She’s also the co-author of Where Do I Start? with her father Karl Malden , and Afterimage: A Broken Hearted Memoir of a Charmed Life . Join my online screenwriting class at UCLA Extension starting June 24th for 10 weeks. Sign up here. I hope you enjoy the interview, you can listen and download it from here or enjoy the show on  iTunes ,  Spot...

Nick Flynn is the author of, Stay: threads, conversations, collaborations , out now on ZE Books. He’s also the author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City that was made into the film starring Robert DeNiro called Being Flynn . If you’d like to see a video version of this interview, along with a music performance by Rykarda Parasol, check out this link, THIS LINK. The video version of...

Beth Lisick is the author of Edie On The Green Screen . It’s her debut novel and she’s also best selling NY Times author with earlier non-fiction including Everybody Into The Poo l and Helping Me Help Myself . She’s the co-founder of the Porch Light Storytelling Series and we chat a bit about our stints as exclusive background actors for big time TV shows and films. Remember to c...

Alia Volz is the author of  Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco . Remember to check out www.tonydushane.com if you’re interested in book coaching. I hope you enjoy the interview, you can listen and download it from here or enjoy the show on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora ,  Stitcher , and other podcast outlets.

Chip Jacobs is the author of Arroyo , out now on Rare Bird Books. His other books include Smogtown , Strange As It Seems , and The People’s Republic of Chemicals . I teach a free online creative writing workshop April 1st at 6pm Pacific, 9pm Eastern, go to TonyDuShane.com for more information and join us wherever you are in the big wide world. I hope you enjoy the interview, you can listen a...

Michael Shermer is the author of Giving The Devil his Due: Reflections of a Scientific Humanist . He’s also the founder of Skeptic Magazine and used to be a Born Again Christian, so we got to bond on our Jesus Christ roots. Remember April 1st at 6pm I’m doing my creative writing workshop that I usually do at the Los Angeles Public Library live online. Go to tonydushane.com for informat...

Robert Anasi , the author of Last Bohemia, Scenes From the Life of Williamsburg and The Gloves: A Boxing Chronicle , joins me this week on the show. This was recorded a few weeks ago to give context, in simpler times, or, are these simpler times? The eternal question. Anasi is a fine fella, we teach together at UCLA Extension and for some odd reason we tend to drink lots of coffee together, even a...

Sands Hall is the author of the memoir Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology . She is also the author of the novel Catching Heaven  and Tools of the Writer’s Craft . Thanks for listening. Novel and memoir coaching information  IS AT THIS LINK.  I hope you enjoy the interview, you can listen and download it from here or enjoy the show on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora ,  Stitcher , and other podc...

Charlie Buhler is the director of the film Before The Fire . She also played Jasmine in the film Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk , directed by Eric Stoltz, written by me, based loosely on my life growing up a Jehovah’s Witness. Before The Fire plays this week at Cinequest , so, if you’re in the Bay Area, definitely check out the film. Thanks for listening. Novel and memoir coaching...

Danko Jones is the author of I’ve Got Something To Say: 10 Years of Rock and Roll Ramblings . He’s also the frontman for the band Danko Jones. In this episode we talk about Three’s Company , one of my favorite subjects, as well as what it’s like to write about music, the skills and thrills of performing live, and so much more. I hope you enjoy the interview, you can listen...

Tom Lutz is the author of Born Slippy . He’s also the founding editor of Los Angeles Review of Books and his non-fiction books including And the Monkey Learned Nothing: Dispatches from a Life in Transit,   Doing Nothing, and more. We went loco over a couple of ginger beers and the result is captured on tape for your pleasure. I hope you enjoy the interview, you can listen and download it fro...

Chana Porter is the author of The Seep . She’s also a playwright and definitely knows the art of veering conversation. It’s what we strive for here on the show. Go to www.drinkswithtony.com/book for info regarding my one-on-one book coaching program. I hope you enjoy the interview, you can listen and download it from here or enjoy the show on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora ,  Stitcher ,...

W. Bruce Cameron is the author of A Dog’s Promise , the third book in the A Dog’s Purpose Series , which is also a film. He created 8 Simple Rules For Dating My Teenage Daughter that later ran as a TV series starring John Ritter on ABC. I hope you enjoy the interview, you can listen and download it from here or enjoy the show on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora ,  Stitcher , and other pod...

Chloe Hilliard is the author of F*ck Your Diet: And Other Things My Thighs Tell Me . She’s also a standup comic and used to be a warm up comic for a morning chat show. Of which we discuss in this episode, along with so, so much more. Chloe performs February 10-12 at the Comedy Cellar in New York City. Enjoy the show on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora ,  Stitcher , and other outlets..and rate u...

Marilee Albert is the author of The Tutor . She studied philosophy at Yale before moving to Europe to work in the film business. These days, between TV and movie scripts, Marilee is a busy mother to two teen boys and a spirited Boston Terrier, and has recently started a nonprofit, OneVillageGreen, which promotes mental health and wellness in American kids and communities. Enjoy the show. And you c...

Rykarda Parasol is the author of Aunt Black and Aunt Black Goes To Paris . She’s also an amazing singer and her full length records include  The Color of Destruction , Against the Sun , For Blood and Wine , and Our Hearts First Meet . At the end of the interview is a clip of Rykarda performing live in Drinks with Tony in 2008 when we were on Pirate Cat Radio. Listen, enjoy, rate us where you...

Mary Ladd is the author of The Wig Diaries . It’s a humorous, illustrated cancer book that wise cracks its way through hospitals, hair loss, wig-ness, and one huge doctor’s crush. Mary has also written for California Magazine, Playboy, Time Magazine/Extra Crispy, Health, SF Weekly, and KQED. Enjoy the show. Drinks with Tony is also available on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora ,  Stitcher , and...

Lincoln A. Mitchell is the author of  San Francisco Year Zero: Political Upheaval, Punk Rock and a Third-Place Baseball Team.  His other books include  Will Big League Baseball Survive?: Globalization, the End of Television, Youth Sports, and the Future of Major League Baseball and  Baseball Goes West: The Dodgers, the Giants, and the Shaping of the Major Leagues.  Essentially Lincoln is the man i...

John Nores is the author of  Hidden War: How Special Operations Game Wardens Are Reclaiming America’s Wildlands From The Drug Cartels. He was a warden for the Department of Fish and Wildlife in California starting in 1992 and retired in 2018 as a special operations lieutenant…. combatting the most environmentally damaging criminals working within California and impacting the nation. En...

Jade Chang is the author of The Wangs vs. the World . She’s also a journalist and a television writer. Chang is the recipient of a Sundance Fellowship for Arts Journalism, the AIGA/Winterhouse Award for Design Criticism, and the James D. Houston Memorial scholarship from the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Drinks with Tony is also available on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora ,  Stitcher , a...

Brad Warner is a Soto Zen priest. He is the author of Letters To a Dead Friend About Zen as well as Hardcore Zen , and Sit Down and Shut Up . He runs the Angel City Zen Center in Echo Park, Los Angeles and gives talks and lectures all over the world. We had a great discussion, enjoy the show. Drinks with Tony is also available on  iTunes ,  Spotify , Pandora ,  Stitcher , and other outlets, or lis...

Kim Krizan is the author of Spy in the House of Anais Nin . She’s also the co-writer of the fabulous films Before Sunrise , Before Sunset , and Before Midnight . In fact, listen to the show to get the low down on her true life story that became Before Sunrise . (Spoiler: It involves a Norwegian.) Enjoy the show, rate us on whatever platform you use, and be sure to put your personality into i...

Matthew Specktor is the author of That Summertime Sound and American Dream Machine. He’s a founding editor at Los Angeles Review of Books and just a damn good person. Enjoy the show. Drinks with Tony is also available on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Stitcher , and other outlets, or listen to it here: