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 31, 2018307: Brian Turner!
On this week's show, I talk to poet, memoirist, and editor Brian Turner about how to build a strong anthology, how working in other media helps our writing, and working with our instincts in the writing process. His latest editing project, The Kiss: Intimacies From Writers, is now available from Norton.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

Learn more about The Ocean Clean Up, one of the beneficiaries of proceeds from The Kiss.

Follow The Kiss column over at Guernica Magazine.

If you live in Orlando, check out Poetry and Prose at the Timicua White House on Wednesday, April 4th.
1 hr 30 min
March 24, 2018 306: Sean Patrick Mulroy!
On this week's show, I share my interview with poet Sean Patrick Mulroy,

plus I chat with my veteran friend Joshua Dull (on the right) about his plans to do more mission work in Costa Rica.

NOTES

If you can, throw a few bucks into the can to send Joshua back to Costa Rica to work on clean water projects.

The Kerouac Project of Orlando is accepting applications for its 3-month residency program until April 16th.
2 hr 5 min
March 17, 2018 305: Jim Shepard & Jennifer Egan!
On this week's show, I share interviews I did with the short story writer Jim Shepard

and one of my favorite novelists, Jennifer Egan.

[caption id="attachment_22997" align="alignnone" width="1430"] Jennifer Egan © Pieter M. van Hattem.[/caption]

TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

Please leave a review of the show on iTunes.

Episode 305 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
1 hr 4 min
March 10, 2018 304: Book Fight! vs. The Drunken Odyssey (AWP Edition)!
Episode 304 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

On this week's special AWP program, Vanessa Blakeslee and I face off against Book Fight's Tom McAllister and Barrelhouse's Poetry Editor, Dan Brady.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Episode 304 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
43 min
March 03, 2018 303: Drunky and Rhiannon!
On this week's program, I drive West of Orlando to meet up with two adventurers named Drunky & Rhiannon who've just happened to write the best guide to Walt Disney World as far is this show is concerned. We geek out about boozing like pros at WDW!

We drank outside at Hurricane Hannah's,

and then we walked over to inside the Ale and Compass over at the Yacht Club,

and then enjoyed some beverages at The Belle Vue Lounge in the Boardwalk Inn.

[caption id="attachment_22824" align="alignnone" width="4288"] The actual bar of The Bellevue Lounge.

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NOTES

The Belle Vue Lounge is where I, sober, interviewed Ridley Pearson all the way back on #199.

This show did the Monorail pub crawl back on #77.
1 hr 34 min
February 24, 2018 302: Cheryl Della Pietra!
On this week's program, I talk to the novelist Cheryl Della Pietra, an editorial assistant to Hunter S. Thompson in 1992, about the dynamics of working with him, the reality of the actual writer's life, the dangers of a legendary persona, Hunter's gift for meta-journalism, the challenges of fiction writing and negotiating a gonzo vision in the service of a non-gonzo narrative, and when to put your work in the drawer and move on.

51 min
February 17, 2018 301: Loose Lips!
In this week's episode, I share a recording of Loose Lips, the monthly current events literary thing hosted by the inestimable Tod Caviness,

Patrick Scott Barnes and Tod Caviness by Katherine J. Parker.

Teege Braune,

Teege Braune by Patrick Scott Barnes.

Michael Cuglietta,

Michael Cuglietta by Patrick Scott Barnes.

Leigh Fields,

Leigh Fields by Patrick Scott Barnes.

Dianne Turgeon Richardson,

Dianne Turgeon Richardson by Patrick Scott Barnes

and moi,

[caption id="attachment_22847" align="alignnone" width="720"] Moi by Patrick Scott Barnes. L'il Indies by Katherine J. Parker.
1 hr 8 min
February 10, 2018 300: A Craft Discussion of David Mamet's 3 Uses of the Knife, with Vanessa Blakeslee!
In this week's episode, I talk with Vanessa Blakeslee about David Mamet's Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama. We manage not to kill one another.

1 hr 8 min
February 03, 2018 299: Laleh Khadivi!
On this week's program, I talk to the novelist Laleh Khadivi about empathy, anticipating the future, the snarl of time management, challenging oneself as a writer as a form of motivation, the absolute transformation of characters, patriarchal similarities between Middle East and West, the mystical nature of surfing, the fraught possibilities of adolescence, religious fervor, the problematic role of country to identity, and modernity and the immigrant experience.

NOTES

Check out the second installment of The Drunken Odyssey's Unauthorized Film Commentary Series: https://youtu.be/VYfZUZjSgjo

Subscribe to TDO's youtube channel.
45 min
January 27, 2018298: A Night of Protest Poetry!
On January 19th, 2018, Dianne Turgeon Richardson hosted an evening of protest poetry at Milk Bar in Orlando, Florida!

The readers included on this recording are Talor Carr, Rachel Fox, Lana Ghannam, Drew Weinbrenner, John King, Dianne Turgeon Richardson, Lisa Roney, Troy Cunio, Laurie Uttich, and Sean Patrick Mulroy.

Lana Ghannam.

Lisa Roney.

Bar dogs.

NOTES

For help with getting Voter IDs, for yourself or others, please check out IDignity.

Learn more about Exodus United.
1 hr 40 min

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

From the publisher's feed

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.