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

This week is a live show for Horror Movie Poetry Night 2, starring The Drunken Odyssey All Stars, brought to you several days early for your Halloweening pleasure.

On this occasion, The Drunken Odyssey All-Stars included:

• Tom Lucas (The Mouth of Madness)
• Teege Braune (The Creature from the Black Lagoon)
• Anna King (House of 1,000 Corpses/The Devil's Rejects)
• Mark Purcell (Rosemary’s Baby)
• Genevieve Anna Tyrrell (The Exorcism of Emily Rose)
• Vincent Crampton Satan
• Susan Fallows (Carrie)

Special thanks to Writer's Atelier for granting us a venue!

If you live in Orlando, check out WA's website here for information about its workshops and events.

In this week’s episode, I interview bizarro fiction writer Tom Lucas,

plus Dallas Woodburn writes about how reading Aimee Bender'’s The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake changed her life.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

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The Drunken Odyssey: A Podcast About the Writing Life presents another evening of verse inspired by that most poetic of film genres: horror!

Featuring

Mark Purcell Teege Braune Anna King Vincent Crampton Genevieve Anna Tyrrell Tom Lucas Susan Fallows & your host, John King.

Absinthe ceremony to follow?

October 28, 2015

Writer's Atelier (336 Grove Avenue, Winter Park, FL)

See facebook event page here.

In this week’s episode, I share a recording of a Halloween show in Jesse Bradley’s prose reading series, There Will Be Words, in which I was a reader.

Besides moi, the show featured

Raymond McKee

Will Garland

Danita Berg

J. C. Sevcik

Peg Martin

Catherine Carson,

and Tom Lucas.

NOTES

Check out Michael Hearst's new album, Film Music and Other Scores, Vol. 1.

In this week’s episode, I interview my occasional co-host Vanessa Blakeslee about her new novel, Juventud,

plus James Stewart III writes about how reading David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest changed his life.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

Come see Vanessa on book tour, including her upcoming appearance on October 18th in the Sunday Salon series with Orlando Ferrand, Anu Jindal, and Asali Solomon. The reading starts at 7 P.M. at Jimmy's #43 at 43 E 7th Street, NY, NY.

Svetlana Alexievich has won the Nobel Prize in Literature.Elvis, the king cobra who has roamed Orlando for the last 5 weeks, has been found.

In turns out, Publix Supermarkets don't recycle human skulls.

In this week’s episode, we have a roundtable discussion of Edgar Allen Poe.

Present for this discussion were Jared Silvia,

Shawn Whittington,

Dianne Turgeon Richardson,

Matt Peters,

and Teege Braune,

NOTES

Check out the sweet swag in The Drunken Odyssey‘s fundraiser here.

Check out these Burrow Press events. Literary Death Match will be judged by Billy Collins.

Saturday October 3rd | Functionally Literate Presents:

PADGETT POWELL | REBECCA EVANHOE | BETH McKEE Lowndes Shakespeare Center | 812 E. Rollins Street 7pm | FREE | No ticket necessary.

Wednesday October 7th | Literary Death Match Presents:

ERICA DAWSON | DAVID JAMES POISSANT KRISTIN HARMEL | KRISTEN ARNETT Mad Cow Theatre | 54 W. Church Street, 2nd Floor Doors at 7pm | Show at 8pm $12 pre-sale | $15 at the door.

In this week’s episode, I talk to chronicler of the rambling life, Michele Roldán Shaw,

plus Nancy Caronia reads her essay, "Deserving Angels."

NOTES

Check out the sweet swag in The Drunken Odyssey's fundraiser here.

Check out these Burrow Press events. Literary Death Match will be judged by Billy Collins.

Saturday October 3rd | Functionally Literate Presents:

PADGETT POWELL | REBECCA EVANHOE | BETH McKEE Lowndes Shakespeare Center | 812 E. Rollins Street 7pm | FREE | No ticket necessary.

Wednesday October 7th | Literary Death Match Presents:

ERICA DAWSON | DAVID JAMES POISSANT KRISTIN HARMEL | KRISTEN ARNETT Mad Cow Theatre | 54 W. Church Street, 2nd Floor Doors at 7pm | Show at 8pm $12 pre-sale | $15 at the door.

In this week’s episode, I talk about Jorge Luis Borges's This Craft of Verse with Vanessa Blakeslee,

plus Jared Silvia performs Peter Seger's "Hobo's Lullaby."

TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

Check out the great perks for The Drunken Odyssey’s fundraiser here. Gator finger puppets not included.

In this week’s episode, I talk to prose writer and educator, Danita Berg,

plus Catherine Carson reads her poem, "Reverse Evolution, or Sex in the Environment."

TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

If you live in Orlando, check out Meg Sefton’s upcoming workshop on the fundamentals of flash fiction here. It will take place on September 27, 2015.

Check out the great perks (such as TDO T-shirts) for The Drunken Odyssey’s fundraiser here.

To read about the feminism panel at the Decatur Book Festival, read the Guardian article here, or the Electric Literature account here.

To read about the Michael Derrick Hudson/Best American Poetry 2015 controversy, read Sherman Alexie's explanation here, Rich Smith's smart take over at The Stranger, or The Washington Post's reportage here.

In NYC, to attend the book launch event for Best American Poetry 2015, go here.

In this week’s episode, I talk to fiction writer J. R. Miller,

plus C.T. McMillan writes about the unsettling moral complexities of Untold Tales of the Punisher Max.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

• Check out the great perks for The Drunken Odyssey’s fundraiser here.

• If you live in Orlando, check out Meg Sefton’s upcoming workshop on the fundamentals of flash fiction here. It will take place on September 27, 2015.
• The Dinty Moore piece referenced in our interview was his essay, Son of Mr. Green Jeans: An Essay on Fatherhood, Alphabetically Arranged.
• I finally saw this, and it was good. Great, actually.

Check out the great perks for The Drunken Odyssey’s fundraiser here.

In this week’s episode, I talk to the poet and novelist Eleanor Lerman,

plus Nancy Caronia reads her essay, "Quiet."

TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

Check out the great perks for The Drunken Odyssey’s fundraiser here.

Check out Meg Sefton’s upcoming workshop on the fundamentals of flash fiction here.

To read about Kate Gale’s controversial piece about AWP’s diversity issues, check out this LA Times story. To read her apology, go to her personal blog.