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

November 21, 2020 447: Candacy Taylor!
Candacy Taylor and I discuss her new book, Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America. We talk about how research can transform a project, and how our understanding of our family's histories give us windows into understanding our nation's history, including our own precarious, sometimes alarming moment in it. We also discuss how instrumental color-coded index cards can help us balance the complex work of presenting the long threads of history.
50 min
November 14, 2020 446: Phil Klay!
The fiction writer and veteran Phil Klay and I discuss finding the right form for a novel, war literature, the uplift of humor, and winning the National Book Award.
49 min
November 07, 2020 445: A Discussion of The Selected Works of Audre Lorde, with Audi Barnes!
On this week's show, poet and scholar Audi Barnes and I discuss the essays and poetry of Audre Lorde.
55 min
October 31, 2020 444: TDO vs. The Curator of Schlock #4 (with Jeff Shuster)
On this week's show, Jeff Shuster and I discuss Jordan Peele's Us, and a lot of other things, too.
1 hr 34 min
October 24, 2020 443: TDO vs. The Curator of Schlock #3 (with Jeff Shuster)
On this week's show, Jeff Shuster and I discuss Richard Stanley's recent film of H.P. Lovecraft's The Color Out of Space.
1 hr 45 min
October 18, 2020 442: TDO vs. The Curator of Schlock #2 (with Jeff Shuster)
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On this week's show, Jeff Shuster and I discuss the genius of Richard Brake, the superior sound design of Rob Zombie's films, the paradoxes of carnie victimhood, the nightmare underbelly of The Great Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution, mere survival as an inadequate story-goal, likable characters, all while talking about Rob Zombie's overlooked brutal 2016 masterpiece, 31.

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1 hr 45 min
October 10, 2020 441: TDO vs. The Curator of Schlock #1 (with Jeff Shuster)
On this week's show, I talk with Jeff Shuster about Cosmos Panatos's 2018 classic horror film, Mandy, as part 1 of our series of discussions on horror films of the last decade.
1 hr 30 min
October 03, 2020 440: Dmetri Kakmi!
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On this week's show, I talk to Dmetri Kakmi about existentialism in horror, the performance of identity, the structure of memoir, and many other things.
1 hr 6 min
September 26, 2020 439: Chuck Palahniuk!
On this week's show, I talk to novelist Chuck Palahniuk about The Invention of Sound, Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life after Which Everything Was Different, Adjustment Day, the 18-month rule, how to stay productive, how to keep invested in the work, the genius of Ira Levin, the value of mentors, and how to remix Invisible Monsters.
1 hr 5 min
September 20, 2020 438: A Discussion of Children of Men, with Michael Wheaton!

On this episode, I talk to writer Michael Wheaton about Alfonso Cuaron's 2006 film, Children of Men, while I wait in vain for my ears to stop ringing.
1 hr 57 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.