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

March 14 707: Shawn Welcome!
In this week's show, the poet Shawn Welcome and I talk about how to love poetry, how to gather together our literary communities, and our beloved city of Orlando, Florida.
48 min
March 07 706: Richard Blanco!
On this week's program, I catch up with the amazing Richard Blanco about his recent collected poems, Homeland of my Body, a book sandwiched with two sections of exciting new work.
55 min
February 28 705: Mamie Pound!
On this week's program, I talk to Mamie Pound about how flash fiction works, poetry, and finding the authentic, messy, true emotion and understanding despite the editors in our brains.
58 min
February 22 704: Elliot Ackerman
On this week's program, I talk to Elliot Ackerman about his new novel, Sheepdogs, a hell of a military caper story.
47 min
February 14 703: A Discussion of Anaïs Nin's Delta of Venus, with Dianne Turgeon Richardson!
Happy Valentine's Day, world! Listen to Dianne Turgeon Richardson and I discuss the memorable, occasionally exhausting, and morally iffy smut of Anaïs Nin's Delta of Venus.
52 min
February 07 702: A Discussion of Lucasta Miller's The Brontë Myth, with Sophia Ferrara.
After reading some of Charlotte Brontë's Tales of Angria (#682), John and Sophia go a-Brontë-ing again. They discuss Lucasta Miller's extraordinary survey of the Brontë cult and the durable, troubled legacy of their fiction.
1 hr 7 min
January 31 701: Greg Proops!
In this week's show, I speak with the comedian Greg Proops about comedy writing, comedy performance, improv, politics, film, and more.
1 hr 12 min
January 17 700: Chuck Klosterman!
On #700, John speaks with the underrated novelist and essay writer Chuck Klosterman about his wickedly funny and ever-insightful new book called Football. They also speak about post-modernism and humor and how audiences perplexingly invert their expectations about reality when reading fiction and non-fiction. John perhaps goes on a rant about the 1985 New England loss in the Super Bowl.
1 hr 8 min
January 10 699: Aymann Ismail!
On this episode, Samantha Nickerson interviews the journalist and memoirist about his new book, Becoming Baba: Fatherhood, Faith, and Finding Meaning in America.
45 min
January 03 698: Descartes a Kant!
On this episode, John interviews the rock band Descartes a Kant about the creation of exciting twenty-first century theatrical rock and roll.

Listen to & buy DAK's music over at Band Camp.
52 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.