Tony DuShane chats with authors and storytellers. Started in 2002, Drinks with Tony has aired on KFJC, Pirate Cat Radio, and Radio Valencia. 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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Signup to Generate a PitchTony DuShane chats with authors and storytellers. Started in 2002, Drinks with Tony has aired on KFJC, Pirate Cat Radio, and Radio Valencia. DuShane is the author and screenwriter of Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk, directed by Eric Stoltz, available on Amazon Prime.
Recent episodes include "Jim Ruland #370" (20 October 2026, 59 minutes), "James Elkins #367" (29 September 2026, 56 minutes), and "Karl Koweski #366" (24 September 2026, 61 minutes).
Drinks with Tony publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 57 minutes across 300 episodes.
Booking probability for Drinks with Tony is 45%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Drinks with Tony requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Drinks with Tony's contact route on record: verified email.
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Drinks with Tony is an arts podcast with 300 episodes published.
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Jim Ruland is the author of Mightier Than The Sword. He’s also co-author of autobiographies with Bad Religion and Keith Morris. Novel Writing Workshop with Tony DuShane starts Oct. 22nd for five weeks. We’ll meet...
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James Elkins is the author of Stories, Like Illnesses. It’s book one in his five book series on Unnamed Press. We discuss Infinite Jest, writing one novel in your career, how he structures his huge novel project...
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Karl Koweski is the author of Mister Joe’s Pirates. We chat about olden times when he was a writer for Cherry Bleeds, why he stopped writing for seven years, living in Alabama, and so much more. Subscribe to the...
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Michele McDannold is the publisher of Roadside Press. We chat how to start a press, working with authors, the literary scenes in Ohio and Pittsburgh, and so much more. Subscribe to the show on iTunes , Spotify , Pandora...
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Michael Elias is the author of Bender’s L.A. He’s also the creator of the TV series Head of the Class and has a long list of TV and film credits. We chat specifically about The Head of the Class episode that...
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Romie Stott is the author of Nothing In The Basement: A Horror Novel. We discuss 48 hours film competitions, discovery of Alexander Dumas, her process for coming up with comp titles when querying a novel, and so much...
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K. S. Haddock is the author of Imagine My Surprise! We talk about his musicals at San Francisco Fringe Fest, failed novels, novels that succeeded, cage fighting, and so much more. Subscribe to the show on iTunes...
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Justin Phillips is the author of American Limoncillo. We chat about his years in the Navy in Naples, Italy … where his novel is also based, how screenwriting informed his novel, his run-ins with the mafia, and so...
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Lee Upton is the author of The Withers. We chat all things writing, about all the new and funky book genres of the publishing industry, how to come up with character names, and so much more. Subscribe to the show on...
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Adam Steiner is the author of Darker with the Dawn: Nick Cave’s Songs of Love and Death. Bless his heart to give me any excuse to deep dive into Nick Cave. We talk about how we found our way to Nick’s work...
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Alta Ifland is the author of Two Queens and a Chronicler. She left Romania with her dissident husband in 1991, in the chaos following the collapse of the communist regime. She ended up in Florida sponsored by a...
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Kennedy Weible is the author of Dirty Myrtle. We discuss working for years in the restaurant biz and how very few people know the term capping ashtrays, how to shift anger writing to fun writing and why it’s the...
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Hilary Plattner is the author of A Momma Puzzle: A Memoir. In the book she puts together the pieces of her mother who she lost in death by suicide when she was six-years-old. We discuss the importance of destigmatizing...
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Pamela Redmond is an author of many books and also performer and writer of her one-woman-show Old Woman Naked . We deep dive into the process of creativity, how it feels to have your novel made into a TV Series, our...
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Rachel Walther is the author of Born To Lose: The Misfits Who Made Dog Day Afternoon. We deep dive into one of the greatest films of all time based on a true story of a bank robbery in Brooklyn, starring Al Pacino and...
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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 for such shows as Family Guy and the reboot of Good Times, and so...
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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’ve been putting off writing a novel, this is your call to...
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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 what it takes to shift your life around and become a novelist and...
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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 her and Michael Jackson studied the bible together in high school...
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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 to become a lucid dreamer. March 4th @ 6pm: Tony’s Free Creative...
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