Drinks with Tony

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 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 on Pirate Cat Radio.

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 other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4pm on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat Radio.

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Tom Lutz is the author of 1925 A Literary Encyclopedia out now on Rare Bird Lit. We discuss everything from Fitzgerald to the Harlem Renaissance and more from 1925 A […]

Ted Kessler is the author of The Authorized Unauthorized History of Billy Childish: To Ease My Troubled Mind. As a veteran music journalist and friend to Childish since the 1990s, […]

Jon Ronson is the author of So You've Been Publicly Shamed. I interviewed him in 2015 when the book came out and it's pretty mind blowing where cancel culture has […]

Lucinda Berry is the author of One In Four: A Thriller. We chat child psychology, running marathons, how the brain works, and her transition to full time author. New creative […]

Rachel Paris is the author of See How They Fall: A Novel. We discuss the humiliating vulnerability of writing and why everyone should do it, why we should never write […]

Chuck Klosterman is the author of tons of books. This is a tape from my interview with him around 2012 when he was promoting The Visible Man. We met at […]

Matthieu Ricard is the author of Happiness. I interviewed him around 2003 and he introduced the idea of mindfulness to me. He is also assistant and translator for the Dalai […]

Marlon James won the Man Booker Prize for his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings. I caught up with him in 2005 when he was touring his first book […]

Colum McCain is the author of Twist: A Novel. We had a great time talking NYC, Ireland, the obsessive structure of writing environments for novels, and his really cool organization […]

Richard Hell is the author of Godlike. And this interview is old, like 2003 or 2004 taping. We met at a bar called The Argus in San Francisco, he was […]

Miranda July, two interviews from the archives. The first one is from 2015 regarding her novel The First Bad Man. The second one is from 2005 regarding her film Me […]

Alex Higley is the author of True Failure: A Novel. We do a deep dive into the novel writing process and how we're always being manipulated by stories. On March 1st […]

Angela Brown is the author of Some Other Time. We discuss how her and her husband met at 14 in high school, writing speculative fiction, do magic moments happen in […]

William Boyle is the author of Saint of the Narrows Street. We chat Brooklyn Dodgers, Oxford Mississippi, James Joyce, the fun of NOT organizing personal libraries to indulge in the […]

Paul Ollinger is the author of Reasonably Happy: The Skeptic's Guide to Achievable Contentment. He's also a podcaster and standup comic. We discuss specific details of when I lost my […]

Francesca Lia Block is the author of House of Hearts and many other books. We discuss love and heartbreak, her moment with David Byrne. LA punk rock and how The […]

Craig Clevenger is the author of The Contortionist's Handbook, re-issued by Datura Books. On this episode we discuss the glorious holy temple where we worship which is the public library, […]

Kim Dower is the author of What She Wants: Poems on Obsession, Desire, Despair, Euphoria. We chat channeling our characters, why poetry gets a bad rap, visiting Baudelaire's grave, and […]

Joe Clifford is the author of Shadow People and many other books. We discuss the esoteric ways of writing novels, what success and failure in life can be, how high […]

Hal Hartley is one of the kings of indie cinema with films like Henry Fool and The Girl From Monday. I taped this about 20 years ago at Dalva in […]

Tony DuShane is the author of Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk. This week I dive into greedy eyeballs of actors at industry screenings, how to make left turns in […]

From the author of Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk comes Tony DuShane's Book Smash. It's my rundown on my favorite books of the year, my complaints about society and […]

David Leo Rice is the author of The Berlin Wall: A Novel. We discuss Tim O'Brien's Short Story “On the Rainy River”, Flo from the Progressive commercials and how to […]

Diego Gerard Morrison is the author of Pages of Mourning. We chat the ups and downs of translating novels, the literary scene in Mexico City, how living on a remote […]

Jean-Paul L. Garnier is the author of Cardboard Spaceship. He also owns Space Cowboy Books in Joshua Tree. We talk Czech writers, starting a bookstore and publishing company, why living […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]