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 11, 2017 287: A Craft Discussion of Ann Hood's Morningstar
In this week's episode, I talk with Vanessa Blakeslee about Ann Hood's MorningStar: Growing Up With Books.

NOTES

Check out my interview with Ann Hood back on episode 242.

1 hr 33 min
November 08, 2017 286: Bruce Janz!
Episode 286 is a bonus episode, on the 1 year-anniversary of our national tragedy, the election day of 2016. I talk to the philosopher Bruce Janz about how to stay sane and process the current state of American democracy, and how our reading habits can console us.

[caption id="attachment_22372" align="alignnone" width="2016"] Photo by Lisa Roney.
1 hr 23 min
November 03, 2017 285: YA Panel from Litlando 2017
On this week's show, Sara Nicolas,Christina Farley, and Ella Martin, discuss the world of young adult fiction at Litlando, from February 25th, 2017.
52 min
October 28, 2017 284: Horror Movie Poetry Night IV!

This week is a live show: Horror Movie Poetry Night IV. We enter the dark rubicons of Saw, Annabel, Child's Play, SawII, The Lady in White, Phantasm, Return of the Living Dead, Halloween III: Season of the Witch, The Omen, Saw II, The Descent, The Bat, Dead Waves, Lair of the White Worm, and Terminator.

The TDO All Stars included Joshua Begley,

Elise McKenna,

Jeff Shuster,

Shawn McKee,

Jax Shelton,

and Amy Watkins.

NOTE

Special thanks to Wilson Santos and Vinyl Arts Bar!
51 min
October 21, 2017 283: Jay Baron Nicorvo!
On this week's show, I talk about discovering character in the process of novel writing with Jay Baron Nicorvo!

TEXTS DISCUSSED

1 hr 35 min
October 14, 2017 282: Loose Lips October 2017!
Episode 282 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

In this week's episode, I share a recording of Loose Lips, the monthly current events literary thing hosted by the inestimable Tod Caviness, with special guests Erik Deckers, Whitney Hamrick, Joe Snyder, Mary McGinn, and moi.

NOTES

Join us on October 21st at Vinyl Arts Bar in Orlando!

Read Ta-Nehisi Coates's The First White President.

Episode 282 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
1 hr 1 min
October 07, 2017 281: A Craft Discussion of Colum McCann's Letters to a Young Writer
In this week's episode, I talk with Vanessa Blakeslee about Colum McCann's Letters to a Young Writer.

Books Discussed

NOTES

Colum McCann hosts a lovely Bloomsday reading every year at Ulysses Folk House in downtown Manhattan.

Check out my interview with the late Charlie Bethel, an amazing playwright and performer, back on episode 39.
1 hr 3 min
September 30, 2017 280: Mailbag 9 (with David James Poissant)
Episode 280 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 show, David James Poissant and I offer words of advice for 12 new writers and their questions. I probably swear more than I should in a classroom.

NOTES

Read Ta-Nehisi Coates' "The First White President."

Check out Orlando Shakespeare's production of Man of La Mancha.

Congrats to the finalists for Poet Laureate of Orlando: Curtis Meyer, Susan Lilley, and Terry Anne Thaxton.

Check out the music of The Bambi Molesters, an extraordinary surf rock outfit out of Croatia.

Episode 280 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
1 hr 9 min
September 23, 2017 279: Leslie Salas!
On this week's show, I talk editing and publishing and writing and the post-MFA malaise with Leslie Salas.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

Leslie Salas currently blogs for The Gloria Sirens, and is an editor at Sweet.
55 min
September 16, 2017 278: Brittany Perham!
On this week's show, I talk poetry with Brittany Perham!

NOTES

Check out my interview with Brittany Perham's chapbook collaborator, Kim Addonizio.

RIP, Jerry Pournelle and J. P. Donleavy.
1 hr 11 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.