Drinks with Tony
Episodes
Jaydi Samuels Kuba #352
19 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Ed Lin #351
13 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Frances Crawford #350
31 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 wh...
Darls Centola #349
24 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Jared Chiang-Zeizel #348
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Kirk Ellis #347
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 f...
Grant Faulkner #346
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Joe Clifford and Barry Bunin #345
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 mo...
Jaime Parker Stickle #344
13 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 misogynis...
Ta-ta 2025, Tony DuShane Talks From His Kitchen
30 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tony DuShane chats from his kitchen about the best books of 2025, Paris, getting over agoraphobia, the human condition, and finding out mom has stage ...
Gail Butensky #342
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Cara Black #341
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 e...
Andrew Rubin #340
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 NY...
Tod Goldberg #339
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 cel...
Chip Jacobs #338
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Carol Tyler #337
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Carol Tyler is an American painter, educator, comedian, and eleven-time Eisner Award-nominated cartoonist known for her autobiographical comics. Her l...
Darrin Doyle #336
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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, worki...
Joe McGinniss Jr. #335
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 i...
Rob Grant #334 Writer/Director of This Too Shall Pass
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
H. Lee Barnes #333
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Stefanie Leder #332
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 nov...
Caitlin Myer – Caitlin Walks At Night – Ep. #331
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Carlo Rotella #330
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 coll...
Todd Solondz and Larry Clark #329
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Ro...
Terry Zwigoff Ep. #328
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 h...
Kerfuffling Genitals by Tony DuShane Ep. 327
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Nikki Nash #326
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nikki Nash is the author of Collateral Stardust: Chasing Warren Beatty and Other Foolish Things. We chat Don Cornelias and Soul Train, working with Co...
Fadi Zaghmout #325
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Fadi Zaghmout is the author of The Man of Middling Height. Originally published in Arabic it’s now available in English from Syracuse University Pre...
Alecia McKenzie #324
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Tad Crawford #323
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 #322
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Ralph Steadman #321
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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’...
Kurt Baumeister #320
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 fri...
Jeffrey Konvitz #319
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 f...
Tom Lutz #318
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 m...
Ted Kessler on Billy Childish #317
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Jon Ronson #316
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ca...
Lucinda Berry #315
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Rachel Paris #314
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 sh...
Chuck Klosterman #313
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
Matthieu Ricard #312
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 tr...
Marlon James #311
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 #310
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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, an...
Richard Hell #309
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 #308
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 regardin...
Alex Higley #307
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 stori...
Angela Brown #306
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 mome...
William Boyle #305
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
William Boyle is the author of Saint of the Narrows Street. We chat Brooklyn Dodgers, Oxford Mississippi, James Joyce, the fun of NOT organizing perso...
Paul Ollinger #304
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Ollinger is the author of Reasonably Happy: The Skeptic’s Guide to Achievable Contentment. He’s also a podcaster and standup comic. We discus...
Francesca Lia Block #303
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
Craig Clevenger #302
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Kim Dower #301
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Joe Clifford #300
02 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Hal Hartley #299
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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’s Complaints to God #298
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Tony DuShane’s Book Smash #297
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 compl...
David Leo Rice #296
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Diego Gerard Morrison #295
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 livi...
Jean-Paul L. Garnier #294
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Sacha Mardou #293
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 famili...
Kes Trester #292
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Gabriel Hart #291
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 w...
Krystal Kenney #290
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 Krysta...
Marianne Leone #289
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 grie...
Colleen McKeegan #288
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 spo...
Jessica Maguire #287
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 N...
John A. Dailey #286
16 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 repet...
Bobi Conn #285
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ch...
Alexander Boldizar #284
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alexander Boldizar is the author of The Man Who Saw Seconds. We discuss living in a refugee camp after fleeing Slovakia in the 1979, the art of learni...
Peter Houlahan #283
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ca...
Paul Cody #282
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 […]
Nicholas Belardes #281
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 you...
Joyce Maynard #280
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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....
Joe Clifford #279
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 I...
Tony DuShane’s Writing Workshop #278
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Danielle and Kyler join my spontaneous writing course. We discuss being uncomfortable as a writer, the importance of journaling, the intimacy we have ...
Ann Leary #277
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 stor...
Matthew Daddona #276
17 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew Daddona is the author of The Longitude of Grief: A novel. We discuss cafe culture in Sarajevo, the virtues of Philly, writing compelling chara...
Nicolás Medina Mora #275
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 l...
Ari Gold #274
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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. ...
Sasha Vasilyuk #273
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sasha Vasilyuk is the author of Your Presence is Mandatory. We discuss the generations of her family’s experience in Ukraine, researching a novel ba...
Jerry Stahl #199
06 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jerry Stahl is the author of Nein, Nein, Nein! One Man’s Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust. We chat: * How to...
Jordan Castro #198
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jordan Castro is the author of The Novelist’ – A Novel. We chat: – Intimacy of pizza delivery before apps. – Cleveland Indians...
Kurt Baumeister #167
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kurt Baumeister is the author of Pax Americana. He’s also an editor at 7.13 Books. New Screenwriting classes are now available at www.tonydushane.c...