Drinks with Tony

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 and kids, how every date needs proof of no STDs even before the first kiss, and so much more. Subscribe to  DuShane.substack.com and listen to Drinks with Tony on iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora ,  Stitcher , and other podcas...

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 in NYC, San Francisco, Chicago and beyond, we chat how she got into photography, working with Steve Albini, San Francisco Mission District of the 1990s, and so much more. The photo in the graphic is hers from a Naked Ra...

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 there to talk about after the subject of Paris? We talk writing and such, but seriously, we talk a lot about Paris since Cara is the queen guru of Paris. Register for my  December Screenwriting Workshop , the first annual holiday break writing...

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 with a bunch of roommates, why writing novels and screenplays gives us more tools for each craft, and so much more. Register for my  December Screenwriting Workshop , the first annual holiday break writing intensive, join us December 22 – January 2...

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 Christmas and Hanukkah and get away with it. Register for my December Screenwriting Workshop , the first annual holiday break writing intensive, join us December 22 – January 2. Subscribe to  DuShane.substack.com  and listen to Drinks wi...

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 more. Only SIX spots in my December Screenwriting Workshop , the first annual holiday break writing intensive, join us. Subscribe to  DuShane.substack.com  and listen to Drinks with Tony on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora ,  Stitcher , and oth...

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. Registration for my Screenplay Holiday Workshop is open , work on a screenplay during the holiday break. Subscribe to  DuShane.substack.com  and listen to Drinks with Tony on  iTune...

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 versus the large publishers, and so much more. Register  for my intensive 10-Day Screenwriting Outline Workshop Dec 22 – Jan 2, Subscribe to  DuShane.substack.com  and listen to Drinks with Tony on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora...

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 than an outcome, why writing memoirs is not therapeutic, family members threatening to sue him for the book, and so much more. Register  for my intensive 10-Day Screenwriting Outline Workshop Dec 22 – Jan 2, Subscribe to  DuShane.sub...

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 trying to figure out love and life as a teenager. Register for my intensive 10-Day Screenwriting Outline Workshop Dec 22 – Jan 2, Subscribe to  DuShane.substack.com  and listen to Drinks with Tony on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pa...

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 . Lee and I discuss why people lie, combat in Vietnam, dating advice for every generation, and so much more. Subscribe to  DuShane.substack.com  and listen to Drinks with Tony on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora ,  Stitcher , and o...

Stefanie Leder is the author of Love, Coffee & Revolution: A Novel. We discuss how she became a TV writer and showrunner, how she wrote this debut novel 20 years ago and it finally came out, how her politics have shifted over time, 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...

Caitlin Myer is my writer friend from San Francisco. She has lived in Portugal for the last 7 years. Before that she traveled the world going wherever life would open to her. She posted photos for many years under the title Caitlin Walks At Night. On this episode we talk about some of her experiences in Montevideo, Serbia, Istanbul, Porto, Barcelona, Katmandu, and more. Caitlin’s an inspirat...

Carlo Rotella is the author of What Can I Get Out Of This? – Teaching and Learning in a Classroom Full of Skeptics. We discuss his optimism for college students engaged in reading novels, why many of his students hate reading House Of Mirth and what they can learn from that, how pulp novels shaped his younger reader self, and so much more. Register is open for my novel writing class The Nove...

I caught up with Todd Solondz in San Francisco in 2004 when he was promoting Palindromes. I caught up with Larry Clark when he was promoting Wassup Rockers in 2005. These are two of my favorite interviews from the Drinks with Tony archives. I hope you enjoy. Register for my novel writing class  The Novel Approach Workshop with Tony DuShane starting on Sept. 19. Subscribe to  MAH SUBSTACKY  for mor...

Terry Zwigoff is a great American filmmaker. Many of you know him for Bad Santa, but in 2006 he released a film called Art School Confidential and I had him on Drinks with Tony, yes, 19 years ago. Come with me down memory lane as I recall the old journalism ways of watching films and how directors had to do promotion regionally in those years, somehow that links to when someone stage dived on me a...

Tony DuShane is the author of Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk . This episode is called Kerfuffling Genitals. I talk about a botched one-night stand, words you can’t use on YouTube, inspiration from Anne Lamott and Charles Bukowski, life’s choices leading to regret, my penis brain, and more. Register for The Novel Approach Workshop with Tony DuShane starting on Sept. 19. Subscribe t...

Nikki Nash is the author of Collateral Stardust: Chasing Warren Beatty and Other Foolish Things. We chat Don Cornelias and Soul Train, working with Conan O’Brien, how Jeff Goldbloom is present, like really present, like almost too in the moment, is there a moment before or after his moment?, her first job with Mary Hartman and the show Mary Hartman, but I totally mixed it up and thought it w...

Fadi Zaghmout is the author of The Man of Middling Height. Originally published in Arabic it’s now available in English from Syracuse University Press. We chat speculative fiction vs. sci-fi and we still can’t figure out how publishers define it, how Fadi started out as a blogger to write about taboo subjects before his government cracked down on what you can say as a blogger, and so m...

Alecia McKenzie is the author of A Million Aunties: A Novel out now on Akashic Books. We chat walking amongst the dead literary spirits of Paris, her start writing as a four year old in Kingston, Jamaica, why every neighborhood needs aunties, and so much more. Subscribe to  DuShane.substack.com  and listen to Drinks with Tony on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora ,  Stitcher , and other podcast outlets...

Tad Crawford is the author of A Woman in the Wild. We also chat his other book, The Secret Life of Monday, and we talk about IQ84 and other Murakami, Proust, long novels, the writing process, creating characters, and the word ‘esoteric’ while being esoteric. Novel 1 registration is open for August workshops, limited to six students: Register here for AFTERNOON classes  and Register her...

James Elkins is the author of A Short Introduction to Anneliese out now on Unnamed Press. Novel 1 registration is open for August workshops, limited to six students: Register here for AFTERNOON classes and Register here for EVENING classes . James and I chat Exegesis by Philip K. Dick, Finnegan’s Wake and Ulysses, Proust Smelling the fear of some authors in their work, The Anatomy of Melancholy, a...

Ralph Steadman illustrated Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Also a writer, I interviewed Ralph in 2007 for his memoir The Joke’s Over. A deep cut from the Drinks with Tony archives. We chat Hunter S. Thompson, Oscar Zeta Acosta, and more. Start your novel immediately, stop procrastinating, join my novel workshop in August. More info at DrinksWithTony.com Subscribe t...

Kurt Baumeister is the author of Twilight of the Gods on Stalking Horse Press. He’s also an acquisitions editor for 7.13. We discuss how we lose friends and family when writing auto-fiction, Martin Amis’ Inside Story, Ian Maloney’s South Brooklyn Exterminating, Desperately Seeking Susan, and the delusion and reality of a writing career. Subscribe to  DuShane.substack.com  and listen to Drinks with...

Jeffrey Konvitz is the author of The Circus of Satan: A Novel exploring the Irish mob in New York City of the early 1900s. Based on true events, yet fictionalized for emotional truth. We chat about his first novel The Sentinel and his experience going from rejected writer to best selling author with a film deal. With the new swagger in his step he approached a beautiful woman to flirt with and he...