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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 much more. Check out LJ Matchmaking for more info on Jaydi. Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4 p.m. on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat Radio. Substack.DuShane.com Creative Writing at Los Feliz Public Library, Los Angeles: May 6, 2026 June 3, 2026

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 action to join us. Register here. Ed and I discuss Taiwan, bands we grew up seeing live, including New Order, The Sugarcubes, Public Image Ltd., and of course writing novels. The Novel Approach Workshop with Tony DuShane April 20 – May 18, 2026 Mondays at 6pm PT on Zoom. Limited to six students, register now. Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4 p.m. on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat Radio.

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 finding an agent and publisher to back your goals. Wanna take a novel workshop to reach your goals, join my workshop linked below. The Novel Approach Workshop with Tony DuShane April 20 – May 18, 2026 Mondays at 6pm PT on Zoom. Limited to six students, register now. Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4 p.m. on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat Radio.

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. The book is her shared journey with Michael that ultimately leads to her exit from the religion. Join Darls and I at Book Soup in West Hollywood on April 7th as we discuss her memoir in person. The Novel Approach Workshop with Tony DuShane April 20 – May 18, 2026 Mondays at 6pm PT on Zoom. Limited to six students, register now. Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4 p.m. on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat Radio.

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 Writing Workshop at Los Feliz Library on 1874 Hillhurst Ave., Los Angeles, just show up. 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.

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 film, mythology, intimate relationships with our characters, and his series biopics of Benjamin Franklin starring Michael Douglas and John Adams starring Paul Giamatti. Feb 4th @ 6pm: Tony’s Free Creative Writing Workshop at Los Feliz Library on 1874 Hillhurst Ave., Los Angeles, just show up. 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.  

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 much money we make writing books, and so much more. Feb 4th @ 6pm: Tony’s Free Creative Writing Workshop at Los Feliz Library on 1874 Hillhurst Ave., Los Angeles, just show up. 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.

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 more. 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.

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 misogynist anymore, life of marriage and kids, how every date needs proof of no STDs even before the first kiss, and so much more. 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.

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 scenes in the 1980s and 1990s in NYC, San Francisco, Chicago and beyond, we chat how she got into photography, working with Steve Albini, San Francisco Mission District of the 1990s, and so much more. The photo in the graphic is hers from a Naked Raygun show. 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

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 else is there to talk about after the subject of Paris? We talk writing and such, but seriously, we talk a lot about Paris since Cara is the queen guru of Paris. 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

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 NYC with a bunch of roommates, why writing novels and screenplays gives us more tools for each craft, and so much more. 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, Sa

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. Registration for my Screenplay Holiday Workshop is open, work on a screenplay during the holiday break. 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.