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

In this week's episode, I talk to fiction writer Glendaliz Camacho near the end of her residency at the Kerouac House in Orlando.

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Check out Glendaliz's work:

• Pigeons (short story)
• Full Battle Rattle (personal essay)
• Dominoes (short story)

Reinaldo Arenas's story "The Glass Tower" appears in Mona and Other Tales.

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On this week's show, I talk to the literary historian Bill Savage about the re-release of George Ade's 1931 classic, breezy history of drinking culture in America.

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Watch and hear Bill's rant against the term dive bar.

In this week's episode, I present an Election Day version Jesse Bradley's prose reading series, There Will Be Words, or in this case, There Will Be Words and/or Doom. The readers included myself,

Rachel Kolman,

Glendaliz Camacho,

And Whitney Hamrick.

Thanks once again to our host, J. Bradley.

On this week's show, I talk to the nonfiction writer Sayantani Dasgupta about creative nonfiction, the romance of reading, and the powerful appeal of the in-between.

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Listen to Sayantani's essay about 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea here.

In this week's episode, I talk with Vanessa Blakeslee about David Foster Wallace's "E Unibus Plurim: Television and U.S. Fiction."

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Read David Foster Wallace's 1993 essay "E Unibus Plurim: Television and U.S. Fiction" here.

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On this week's show, I talk to the nonfiction writer Pamela Skjolsvik about creative nonfiction, anxiety, and death,

plus I briefly eulogize a triumvirate of entertainers: Leonard Cohen, Robert Vaughn, and Kevin Meaney.

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Check out Pamela Skjolsvik's essay about David Sedaris back on episode 50.

Miami Book Fair International's amazing weekend street fair will take place on November 19th and 20th.

In this week's episode, I talk to the journalist and nonfiction writer, Craig Pittman.

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• On November 8th, come hear me, Gelndaliz Camacho, Rachel Kolman, and Whitney Hamrick read at There Will Be Words at The Gallery at Avalon Island.
• Watch The Drunken Odyssey's latest video: Craig Pittman, Tod Caviness, Jesse Bradley, Susan Fallows, and David Thomas Moran read in the Loose Lips reading series.
• Miami Book Fair International's amazing weekend street fair will take place on November 19th and 20th.

This week is a live show: Horror Movie Poetry Night III. The Drunken Odyssey All Stars were Glendaliz Camacho, Curtis X. Meyer, Stacy Barton, Jim Driggers, Shawn McKee, Jared Silvia, Whitney Hamrick, Teege Braune, & your host, John King.

Episode 229 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 return to Jesse Bradley's Halloween installment of his prose reading series, There Will Be Words.

Plus a final performance from The Terrible Mr. Sundrop.

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On this week's show, I present a quartet of readings from HP Lovecraft: "The Beast in the Cave," "The Tree," "Beyond the Wall of Sleep," and "From Beyond." Our readers are Chris Booth,

Elise McKenna, and Tom Lucas.

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This episode is a companion to Episode 227, a roundtable discussion of Lovecraft.

If you like this show's readings, check out the previous literary reading episode, 123, on the year without a summer that spawned the ghost story contest between Lord Byron, the Shelleys, and Dr. Polidori.

If you are near Orlando on October 19th, come to Horror Movie Poetry Night 3.