Episode 13: MAD Writer Skills with Ocean Vuong, David Foster Wallace, and Tobias Wolff

SHOW NOTES: On Lucky Episode 13, complete with a new theme song for the podcast, Pete discusses Mad Writers Skills,” as seen in writing by Ocean, Vuong, David Foster Wallace, and Tobias Wolff. While Foster Wallace’s lines reference something lighthearted, they are nonetheless stunningly true to life. Vuong’s work rings out with beauty, so talented is he with his phrasing, in lines deal with trauma and acceptance. Wolff’s lines have every word in the best possible placement to display a sad truism of the world. These are writers whose work titillates, entertains, and puts the reader in awe.

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You can find the literature referenced today in Ocean Vuong’s novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, published by Penguin Press in 2019. David Foster Wallace’s essay “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again” can be found in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments, published in 1998 by Back Bay Books. Tobias Wolff’s “The Chain” is from the July 1, 1996 issue of Esquire Magazine, and/or his collection. 

The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other cool song played on this episode was “Simple Math” (Instrumental Version” by Jake Haws, used through ArchesAudio.com.