Drinks with Tony Tony DuShane
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Conversations with authors and storytellers since 2002. DuShane is the author and screenwriter of Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk, directed by Eric Stoltz, available on Amazon Prime.
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Ann Leary #277
Ann Leary is the author of I’ve Tried to Be Nice: Essays.
Join my Summer Online Novel Writing Workshop June 23 – 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 counseling during a rough patch in their marriage, what playing games can teach us about ourselves and others, how her true love is writing the novel, 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.
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Matthew Daddona #276
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 #275
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 FM, KPCR-LP, Los Gatos. -
Ari Gold #274
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 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. -
Sasha Vasilyuk #273
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 #272
Alex Kazemi is the author of New Millennium Boyz.
We discuss social 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.