Paul Fussell's guest appearances

Paul Fussell

The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life

Tom Papa

Jericho Brown

Kurt Vonnegut

Cory Doctorow

Stephen King

Jonathan Safran Foer

Elif Shafak

Alexander Pope

Chuck Palahniuk

Emily Wilson

Lynda Barry

Chris Ware

Gerald Stern

Erica Jong

Carmen Maria Machado

OwlTail

Vanessa Blakeslee

Episode 408 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing.) This week, my occasional co-host, Vanessa Blakeslee, and I discuss Paul Fussell's entertaining treatise, Class: A Guide Through the American Status System. While this is clearly not a craft book, a sociological understanding of the American class system can add layers to your characterization, or so John found when he discovered this gem back in the early 1990s. Paul Fussell (1924-2012) possessed a gorgeously sardonic wit when not hiding in academia. Someday John will own a sailboat, and become truly, deeply, fatally lost, and happy.

Episode 408 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/drunken-odyssey-john-king-podcast-about-writing-life/id534930546" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple podcasts</a>, <a href="https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/drunken-odyssey-a-podcast-about-the-writing-life/the-drunken-odyssey-with-john-king-a-podcast-about-the-writing" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">stitcher</a>, spotify, or click <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/thedrunkenodyssey/The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_408.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a> to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing.) This week, my occasional co-host, Vanessa Blakeslee, and I discuss Paul Fussell's entertaining treatise, Class: A Guide Through the American Status System. While this is clearly not a craft book, a sociological understanding of the American class system can add layers to your characterization, or so John found when he discovered this gem back in the early 1990s. Paul Fussell (1924-2012) possessed a gorgeously sardonic wit when not hiding in academia. Someday John will own a sailboat, and become truly, deeply, fatally lost, and happy.

408: A Discussion of Paul Fussell's Class with Vanessa Blakeslee!