The Drunken Odyssey

Episode 730 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, John speaks with author Chad B. Anderson and artist Jeffrey D. Guinn about their new multimedia book from Burrow Press, We Are But Fumbling Creatures, which surveys the history, present, and potential future of the Shenandoah Valley.

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On November 5th, I will host a celebration of what would have been Gram Parson’s 80th birthday with author Bob Kealing, who wrote the book on Gram’s life in Florida. Bob writes beautifully about Gram and taught me so much about this remarkable career of a musician’s musician.

I hope you can join us for this free event at the Winter Park Library. If you plan to attend, please register at the link below.

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

Episode 730 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 729 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).

So far in all our Schloctoberfesting, Jeff Shuster and John King have not focused on either a Roger Corman film or a Charles Bronson film. Both of those oversights are addressed in this convo about what turns out to be a fairly good and psychologically interesting gangster story that successfully de-romanticizes the genre. Machine Gun Kelly came out in 1958, the last year of the 1950s to be discussed in this horrible year of 2026.

What 1940s films should Jeff and John discuss, should both still be around in 2027?

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On November 5th, I will host a celebration of what would have been Gram Parson’s 80th birthday with author Bob Kealing, who wrote the book on Gram’s life in Florida. Bob writes beautifully about Gram and taught me so much about this remarkable career of a musician’s musician.

I hope you can join us for this free event at the Winter Park Library. If you plan to attend, please register at the link below.

https://www.winterparklibrary.org/event/bob-kealing-150314

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

Episode 729 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 728 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).

On this week’s show, Jeff Shuster and I discuss a movie that is either schlock or a masterpiece or a schlock masterpiece. Kiss Me Deadly might be the nuttiest film of the 1950s, one that seems to have influenced Quentin Tarantino and David Lynch.

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On November 5th, I will host a celebration of what would have been Gram Parson’s 80th birthday with author Bob Kealing, who wrote the book on Gram’s life in Florida. Bob writes beautifully about Gram and taught me so much about this remarkable career of a musician’s musician.

I hope you can join us for this free event at the Winter Park Library. If you plan to attend, please register at the link below.

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

Episode 728 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 727 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).

On this week’s show, Jeff Shuster and I discuss two zeitgeist-defining 1954 horror films, Creature from the Black Lagoons and Godzilla.

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On November 5th, I will host a celebration of what would have been Gram Parson’s 80th birthday with author Bob Kealing, who wrote the book on Gram’s life in Florida. Bob writes beautifully about Gram and taught me so much about this remarkable career of a musician’s musician.

I hope you can join us for this free event at the Winter Park Library. If you plan to attend, please register at the link below.

https://www.winterparklibrary.org/event/bob-kealing-150314

Check out my latest flash fiction in Bachelor Pad Magazine, a latter day pin-up magazine that like all good smut deeply cares about the writing and the photos. (Alas, there is no free way to access my flash fiction, “The Confessions of Guy Psycho #11.”)

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

Episode 727 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 726 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).

On this week’s show, Jeff Shuster and I discuss two zeitgeist-defining 1953 science fiction films, The War of the Worlds and Robot Monster.

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Thank you, DJ Rout, for recommending Anders Runestad’s book!

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

Episode 726 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 725 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 Melissa Crowe about her latest collection of poetry, Abider, now out with The University of Pittsburgh Press.

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Pick up Abider here.

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

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

Episode 724 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 Kathy Fagan about bathos, pop culture, and of course mortality. Her newest poetry volume, The Unbecoming, becomes on Tuesday September 22nd.

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

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

Episode 724 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 723 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 Alex Gurtis dive deeper into Gregory Corso’s poetry as part of The Kerouac Project of Orlando Book Club. 

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Check out Alex and John’s visit with Gregory Corso’s manuscripts for his tremendous poem, “The Bomb,” available on Youtube.

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

Check out my new flash fiction, “Not All Parties Are Fun, Actually,” over at Ghost Parachute.

Check out the exquisite Jaffe Center for Book Arts at Florida Atlantic University.

Episode 723 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 722 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 interviews Barbara Hamby about the array of odes in her wonderful new poetry collection, Burn.

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

Episode 722 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 721 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 Chad Coup discuss all of Stephen King’s Maximum Overdrive, DVD Commentary style.

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To hear John and Jaroslav Kalfař discuss Stephen King’s On Writing, check out episode 6.

To hear TDO’s roundtable discussion of King’s Danse Macabre, check out episode 337.

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

Episode 721 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).