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

June 19, 2021 477: A Summer Solstice Special with Jefff Shuster!
In this week's show, Jeff Shuster (our glorious Curator of Schlock) kick off summer by discussing two vintage summer camp films released in a two year span, Ivan Reitman's Meatballs (1979) and Tony Maylam's The Burning (1981).
1 hr 47 min
June 12, 2021 476: Anahid Nersessian!
In this week's show, literary scholar Anahid Nersessian & I discuss John Keats, the potential for personal observations in academic work, the sexual politics of art, theme parks, and academic institutions, the dialectic of the indeterminacy & the permanence of art, & the scope of Keats's personae.

1 hr
June 05, 2021 475: Kathleen Rooney!
In this week's show, I talk to the novelist Kathleen Rooney about finding the spark to begin stories, the shape for long-form narratives, and the whimsy to make discoveries along the way.
1 hr 13 min
May 29, 2021 474: Nat Segaloff & Thomas Warming!
In this week's show, I talk to Nat Segaloff and Thomas Warming about writing for and about Hollywood.
1 hr 6 min
May 22, 2021 473: A Discussion of Tom Waits's "Swordfishtrombones" with Stephen McClurg!
In this week's show, I bring music blogger Stephen McClurg aboard as we talk about one of the most transformative, dramatic, atmospheric, strange, American pastoral phantasmagorical musical albums of all time, Tom Waits's Swordfishtrombones (1983).
1 hr 59 min
May 15, 2021 472: Spencer Huffman!
In this week's show, I talk to the spring 2021 resident of The Kerouac Project of Orlando, playwright Spencer Huffman.

1 hr 15 min
May 09, 2021 471: A Discussion of Kurt Vonnegut's Pity the Reader with Leslie Salas
In this week's show, Leslie Salas and I discuss Kurt Vonnegut' and Suzanne McConnell's compendious Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style.
1 hr 13 min
May 01, 2021 470: Mixtape 14: I Don't Know How to Talk to You Outside of a Poem

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1 hr 10 min
April 24, 2021 469: Geoffrey Kent!
In this week's show, I speak with the actor Geoffrey Kent about Shakespeare in performance, how actors make the texts come alive, the modern English translation of Shakespeare plays, the agony of having to cut Shakespeare's texts down, the scenes that are rehearsal-eaters, -linging steel, how action sequences by themselves tell stories, and other important matters.
1 hr 18 min
April 17, 2021 468: Alfred Corn!
In this week's show, I speak with the poet and translator Alfred Corn about Rainer Maria Rilke's sublime Duino Elegies.
53 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.