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 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.

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...