Episode 720 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

In this week’s episode, John King and Rachael McKee embark on a fourth installment of Sylvia Plathery to discuss the restored edition of Ariel and Other Poems.

If you are keen, check out the previous installments: episodes 685 (The Colossus and Other Poems) and 693 (Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath).

NOTES

Some of our artistic allusions.

Detail from Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights.

To learn more about the Kerouac Project’s necessary renovations and call for donations, go here.

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Episode 720 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

Episode 719 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

In this week’s episode, John King and Shawn McKee dig down into the mysteries of taste and the effect a lot of nudity can have on a space vampire zombie epic.

NOTES

Check out our YouTube video of this convo.

Or check out John and Samantha Mickey Mousing Around.

To learn more about the Kerouac Project’s necessary renovations and call for donations, go here.

Learn more about The Kerouac Project of Orlando.

Episode 719 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

Episode 718 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

In this week’s episode, John interviews the Pulitzer Prize-wining justice journalist and researcher Gilbert King,

plus TDO proudly shares a dual book-launch event for Laura Lee Bahr and Erik Deckers.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

Check these videos out on YouTube if you’d rather watch this show.

To learn more about the Kerouac Project’s necessary renovations and call for donations, go here.

Learn more about The Kerouac Project of Orlando.

Episode 718 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

Episode 717 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

In this week’s episode, John interviews music journalist and biographer Bob Spitz about the massive sixty-year career of The Rolling Stones, how the music moves us, and the process of creating a good book with a tidal wave’s amount of material to cover.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

Check the video out on YouTube if you’d rather watch this interview.

To learn more about the Kerouac Project’s necessary renovations and call for donations, go here.

Learn more about The Kerouac Project of Orlando.

Check out Greg Proops’s brand new cathartically electric fantabulous album, Kidding, but Still.

Episode 717 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

Episode 716 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

In this week’s episode, John and Matt Peters complete their discussion of William S. Burroughs’s first quartet of manuscripts as part of The Kerouac Project of Orlando Book Club. 

TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

Check the video out on YouTube.

To learn more about the Kerouac Project’s necessary renovations and call for donations, go here.

Learn more about The Kerouac Project of Orlando.

Check out Greg Proops’s brand new cathartically electric fantabulous album, Kidding, but Still.

Episode 716 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

Episode 715 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

In this week’s episode, John speaks with the poet Henry Hughes about poetry, fishing, patience, creativity, Charles Bukowski, and other matters of literary interest.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

Read Henry’s rumination on his correspondence with Charles Bukowski.

Check out Greg Proops’s brand new cathartically electric fantabulous album, Kidding, but Still.

To learn more about the Kerouac Project’s necessary renovations and call for donations, go here.

For excellent tattoos in the Orlando area, check out The Tattooed Society.

Episode 715 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

Episode 714 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

In this week’s episode, John speaks with the poet Lara Egger about her new book, Flop Era. Other topics covered: the jostling of syntax, the long learning curve of becoming a writer, and how constraints point us towards problem-solving that allows authenticity to bleed through our work.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

Check out Greg Proops’s brand new cathartically electric fantabulous album, Kidding, but Still.

To learn more about the Kerouac Project’s necessary renovations and call for donations, go here.

For excellent tattoos in the Orlando area, check out The Tattooed Society.

Episode 714 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

Episode 713 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

In this week’s episode, John speaks with fiction writer and editor Dave Housley about the joys of using writing prompts, the problem-solving of writing meaningfully improbable stories inspired by pop culture, and the limits of post-modern irony. His newest books is Aliens Attack!, now out with Mason Jar Press.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

To learn more about the Kerouac Project’s necessary renovations and call for donations, go here.

For excellent tattoos in the Orlando area, check out The Tattooed Society.

Episode 713 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 712 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

In this week’s show, Rachael Tillman and I discuss The Bell Jar, in part 3 of our series on Sylvia Plath.

If you are keen, check out the previous installments: episodes 685 (The Colossus and Other Poems) and 693 (Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath).

NOTES

To learn more about the Kerouac Project’s necessary renovations and call for donations, go here.

For excellent tattoos in the Orlando area, check out The Tattooed Society.

Episode 712 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 711 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Sophia Ferrara returns to the secret HQ of TDO to chat about the pleasure-filled dystopia of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, while John freaks out about the novel’s structure or lack thereof.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

To learn more about the Kerouac Project’s necessary renovations and call for donations, go here.

For excellent tattoos in the Orlando area, check out The Tattooed Society.

Episode 711 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.