Drinks with Tony

Sacha Mardou is the author of Past Tense: Facing Family Secrets and Finding Myself in Therapy, A Graphic Memoir. We discuss growing up in crazy families and religions, Internal Family Systems therapy, the violence porn of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Pillowgate, and so much more….it’s loads of laughs and a wail of weeping. Read Along with Tony DuShane October 11 – 26, 2024 Last Summer in...

Kes Trester is the author of To The Nines, Book 3 of The Nine series. We discuss how to safely chat with grocery clerks about suicidal thoughts, how to find a husband at Hollywood parties, to structure or not structure a novel, and so much more. Sign up for: Read Along with Tony DuShane October 11 – 26, 2024 Last Summer in the City (1970) by Gianfranco Calligarich Drinks with Tony is on  iTu...

Gabriel Hart is the author of On High At Red Tide. He’s also the lead singer of Jail Weddings and The Starvations. October 5th is the first Drinks with Tony Bookclub , we’re reading Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age and we’ll discuss the book as well as do a writing exercise. October 3rd join Gabriel Hart for his Los Angeles release event for his novel at Stories bookstore...

Krystal Kenney is the author of Paris, A Life Less Ordinary: A Memoir. We discuss tourist scams of Paris, where are the best neighborhoods, how Krystal moved to Paris from Baltimore without an EU citizenship, and so much more. Remember to join the Drinks with Tony Book Club , this month we’ll discuss Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age by Bohumil Hrabal on October 5, 2024. Drinks with To...

Marianne Leone is the author of Five-Dog Epiphany: A Memoir. Marianne is an actor you may know from shows like The Sopranos. Her book tackles the grief of losing her son with her husband actor Chris Cooper and how their son Jesse brought dogs into their lives. We discuss how her an her husband have stayed together for 41 years, when they met in acting school exactly how their romance started, her...

Colleen McKeegan is the author of Rip Tide: A Novel. We discuss what to do when you have a major brain crush on an author, training for mascots of sports teams, the definition of a book hangover, and so much more. Drinks with Tony is on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora , and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM in Los Gatos and 101.9 FM in Santa Cruz on Pirate...

Jessica Maguire is the author of The Nervous System Reset: Heal Trauma, Resolve Chronic Pain, and Regulate Your Emotions with the Power of the Vagus Nerve. We discuss the micro-communications that happens with our eyes, face, and hands, how to calm a 15 month old baby, how to look within ourselves after bad romantic relationships, and so much more. Drinks with Tony is on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pand...

John A. Dailey is the author of Tough Rugged Bastards: A Memoir of a Life in Marine Special Operations. We discuss the subconscious mind work of repetitive drills, the emotional response of combat, his deployment to Afghanistan after 9/11, what movies about war are closest to portraying the real thing, and so much more. Drinks with Tony is on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora , and other podcast outle...

Bobi Conn is the author of Someplace Like Home. We discuss doing psychedelics, her family heritage of moonshiners, how to get out of the way of our characters, collective anger of sports fans, and so much more. Drinks with Tony is on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora , and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM in Los Gatos and 101.9 FM in Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat...

Alexander Boldizar is the author of The Man Who Saw Seconds. We discuss l iving in a refugee camp after fleeing Slovakia in the 1979, t he art of learning new languages, k eeping authenticity as a writer while still entertaining the reader, Commedia dell’arte, and so much more. Drinks with Tony is on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora , and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday eveni...

Peter Houlahan is the author of Reap the Whirlwind: Violence, Race, Justice, and the Story of Sagon Penn. We discuss his coverage of Sagon Penn’s case of being found not-guilty of shooting and killing a police officer, how our brains are being hacked by data collection, when happens when you don’t back up your work, and so much more. Drinks with Tony is on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora...

Paul Cody is the author of Walk The Dark. We take a deep dive into his time teaching in prison, what landed him in the psych ward and how it changed his life, when after 25 years of sobriety he fell off the wagon to dire consequences, and so much more. Drinks with Tony is on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora , and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM in Los Gato...

Nicholas Belardes is the author of The Deading. We chat how a novel should feel like a song, approaching novel writing like an athlete, how to set yourself up before getting an MFA in writing, and so much more. Drinks with Tony is on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora , and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM in Los Gatos and 101.9 FM in Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat...

Joyce Maynard is the author of How the Light Gets In. She’s a best selling author and her books To Die For and Labor Day have been adapted to films. We chat: How to be an authentic writer, embracing that life is messy, her hotel in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala, her affair with J. D. Salinger, being on set for To Die For, and so much more. Drinks with Tony is on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora , and...

Joe Clifford is the author of A Moth To Flame. His novel Lamentation was recently translated to Italian and he just came back from an author tour of Italy. We pine for cafe culture in Italia We whine about phonies and the suck of life We pontificate about our artistic integrity We diss Kanye West …..and so much more… Drinks with Tony is on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora , and other podcast outlets....

Danielle and Kyler join my spontaneous writing course. We discuss being uncomfortable as a writer, the importance of journaling, the intimacy we have with our characters, how to rewrite, and so much more. Join my  Summer Online Novel Writing Workshop June 16 – August 4. We’re all innate storytellers, join absolute beginners and grizzled intermediate writers coming together to ultimately craft your...

Ann Leary is the author of I’ve Tried to Be Nice: Essays. Join my Summer Online Novel Writing Workshop June 16 – August 4. We’re all innate storytellers, learn how to harness what you already have onto the page and ultimately craft your novel. Register at www.tonydushane.com. Limited to 10 students. Ann Leary and I discuss: When her and her husband Denis Leary went to couples cou...

Matthew Daddona is the author of The Longitude of Grief: A novel. We discuss cafe culture in Sarajevo, the virtues of Philly, writing compelling characters, how to hit a deer in Hungary, and so much more. Drinks with Tony is on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora , and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM, KPCR-LP, Los Gatos.

Nicolás Medina Mora is the author of América del Norte. We discuss being a debut novelist, the literary scene in Mexico City, the culture shock of living in the United States and moving back to Mexico, what it means to heed the calling as a writer, and so much more. Drinks with Tony is on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora , and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9...

Ari Gold is the co-author of Father Verses Sons: A Correspondence in Poems, with his late father and author Herbert Gold, and his brother Ethan Gold. Herbert died when he was 99, in November 2023. We discuss how living in San Francisco leads to longevity of life, how poetry created a communication bond that was extremely intimate, the 4:39 rule to poetry, living under the legacy of his father, and...

Sasha Vasilyuk is the author of Your Presence is Mandatory. We discuss the generations of her family’s experience in Ukraine, researching a novel based in true events, how pregnancy is a great deadline for writers, and so much more. Drinks with Tony is on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora , and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM, KPCR-LP, Los Gatos.

Alex Kazemi is the author of New Millennium Boyz. We discuss s ocial hierarchy, living the authentic artist life, book censorship, Kabbalah, Woodstock ‘99, when writing is emotionally damaging, and so much more. Drinks with Tony is on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora , and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM, KPCR-LP, Los Gatos.

Jeff Zentner is the author of Colton Gentry’s Third Act: A Novel . Jeff started as a musician, then hung it up to work with organizations helping teenagers. That’s when he developed a love of YA novelists and became one himself. Colton Gentry’s Third Act is his first adult novel. We discuss Jeff’s three rules of getting a novel finished, doing book tours vs band tours, Biphasic sleep,...

Andrew Miller is the author of Namaste Mart Confidential . We discuss: Sexy masculinity. How to take a punch. Why the year 2013 is important to his novel. Crime fiction…and so much more… Drinks with Tony is on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora , and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM, KPCR-LP, Los Gatos.

Cat Howell is the author of Magic Source Codes: The Craft of Reality. We start the 8-Week Novel Writing Workshop on Monday, this is your last call. TWO spots left. Go to tonydushane.com/novel to register. We already have a solid group of veterans and beginners. We discuss: How to become rich by masturbating. My limiting beliefs I didn’t even know I had. Alchemy, gnosis, sex magick, and so much mor...