The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life

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The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life episodes

May 28, 2022 525: Brynne Rebele-Henry!
On #525, I talk to Brynne Rebele-Henry about divinity, sexuality, and historical imagination in her extraordinary latest collection of verse, Prelude.
50 min
May 21, 2022 524: Yeoh Jo-Ann!
On #524, I talk to Yeoh Jo-Ann, the spring 2022 resident of the Kerouac Project of Orlando, about her novel, Impractical Uses of Cake, proper otter behavior, the role of agency in happiness, cat envy, teaching Shakespeare to teenagers, and the small ways teachers entertain themselves every day.
1 hr 13 min
May 14, 2022 523: Aaron Angello!
In this week's episode, I talk to Aaron Angello about his new book, The Fact of Memory: 114 Ruminations and Fabrications, the creative benefits of daily ritual, writing (cough) early in the morning, David Lynch, the mysteries of the word and, and ditching academic rules for the Muses.
1 hr 7 min
May 08, 2022 522: Ann Hood!
In this week's episode, I talk to Ann Hood about the challenges of writing nonfiction, the intertwining of feminism and women's rights and the history of aviation before and after deregulation, the value of non-writing jobs for young writers, and so much more.
1 hr 8 min
April 30, 2022 521: Nita Noveno!
In this week's show, I speak with the creative nonfiction writer Nita Noveno about the Peace Corps, having a writing community, the Kerouac House, gators, gators, and more gators, and bears, and all of Florida's wild charms, including the people.
1 hr 13 min
April 24, 2022 520: A Discussion of Anne Sexton with Rachael Tillman!
In this week's show, I speak with Rachael Tillman about the poetry and practice of Anne Sexton.
1 hr 16 min
April 16, 2022 519: Marisa Siegel!
In this week's show, I speak with the poet Marisa Siegel about the value of combining poetry with graphic art, language poetry, discovering poetry early in life, and the Mills College MFA Program in Oakland.
58 min
April 09, 2022 518: Vidhu Aggarwal!
In this week's show, I speak with the poet Vidhu Aggarwal about humor in poetry, the physicality of laughter, symbology, physics and spirituality, The Mahabharata, Samuel Beckett, and Shakespeare.
1 hr 3 min
April 02, 2022 517: Kimberly Ann Priest
In this week's show, I speak with the poet Kimberly Ann Priest about purposeful ambiguity in poetry and the minor disturbing oddities in Hieronymus Bosch.

59 min
March 26, 2022 516: A Discussion of Sally Rooney's Novels, with Rachael Tillman!
On #516 Rachel Tillman and I discuss the novels of Sally Rooney.
1 hr 45 min

About The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life

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Join author John King for eclectic interviews with writers from a variety of genres, including fiction writing, poetry, memoirs, and journalism. From literature to genre writing to the movies, all writing is up for discussion. In particular, The Drunken Odyssey features discussion of all aspects of the writing process—not just the published manuscript, pristinely presented to the entire literate world, but also the scrawled notes and tortured drafts that lead writers there. In long-form interviews, writers discuss their process and the way that writing has influenced their lives. Besides this interview, each episode also features a short memoir essay from a writer about a beloved book, plus John King responds to listener's questions and observations about the writing (and the drinking) life.