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

In this week’s episode, I share a recording of a fan fiction installment of Jesse Bradley’s prose reading series, There Will Be Words.

The There Will Be Fan Fiction featured

Teege Braune

Jared Silvia

Stephanie Rizzo

Genevieve Anna Tyrrell

and moi.

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Check out There Will Be Words.

In this week’s episode, I talk about Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own with Vanessa Blakeslee,

plus Christopher Booth reads "The Disappointment,"

by Aphra Behn.

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In this week’s episode, I talk to the journalist Brian Spears,

plus Eugenio Negro writes about the adventure of reading Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses.

BOOKS DISCUSSED

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On Tuesday, August 11, at 7:00 P.M. at The Gallery at Avalon Island in downtown Orlando, Jared Silvia, Stephanie Rizzo, Teege Braune, Genevieve Anna Tyrell, and I will read original fan fiction for that month’s installment of J. Bradley’s prose reading series, There Will be Words.

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

An Albuquerque school adds 13,000 books to library and will not be using the Dewey Decimal system.

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This week features a live Event on the theme of childhood, with Wilson Santos, Ashley Inguanta, Vincent Crampton, Amy Watkins, and moi, as your humble emcee.

This reading was in honor of Wilson Santos's spoken word film, My Verse, which I talked to him about back on episode 138.

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Check out more about Wilson Santos’ Dominican Republic project, including how to donate, here.

In this week’s episode, I talk to the journalist David Z. Morris,

plus Shin Yu Pai writes about how Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake changed her life.

BOOKS DISCUSSED

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Rest in Peace, E.L. Doctorow.

Check out David Z. Morris's site, here. Check out his Art Basel essay here. Check out his Iowa City music essay, "Only What is Dead Can Live Forever," here.

Check out Shin Yu Pai's poetry and other work here.

On Tuesday, August 11, at 7:00 P.M. at The Gallery at Avalon Island, Jared Silvia, Stephanie Rizzo, Teege Braune, Genevieve Anna Tyrell, and I will read original fan fiction for that month’s installment of J. Bradley’s prose reading series, There Will be Words.

Episode 162 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 talk to the novelist Charles Blackstone,

plus Don Campell about how finding a copy of John Krakauer’s Into the Wild on the Appalachian Trail changed his life.

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The Week You Weren't There

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On Tuesday, August 11, at 7:00 P.M. at The Gallery at Avalon Island, Jared Silvia, Stephanie Rizzo, Teege Braune, Genevieve Anna Tyrell, and I will read original fan fiction for that month's installment of J. Bradley's prose reading series, There Will be Words.

On this week’s show, I answer some mail with my friend, David James Poissant,

Plus Amy Watkins reads her poem "Playa Linda."

TEXTS DISCUSSED

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James Tate, rest in very weird peace.

In this week’s episode, I talk to the poet Ciara Shuttleworth,

plus Don Royster writes about how Isaac Asimov helped him to appreciate Shakespeare.

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To read about Ciara's post-residency road-tripping with Flat Jack, here is part 1 and part 2.

To read Thomas Jefferson's original draft of The Declaration of Independence, go here.

In this week’s episode, I talk to myself and share some music. Musicality affects my writing a lot. Perhaps I cherish sound since I nearly went deaf as a child. It took awhile for Sinatra to enter my imagination, but since taking up residency there, Frank hasn't left. So this mixtape is devoted to this man and his music, and a few other people along the way.

In this week’s episode, I talk to the historian Julian Chambliss,

Dmetri Kakmi writes about how reading Paul Bowles’s The Sheltering Sky taught him how to write about psycho-geographic dis-associations.

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Check out Julian Chambliss's site here.

Check out John Sims' site devoted to the Confederate flag project.

Check out the news coverage of the Flag Funerals Project by (in order of decreasing journalistic competence) WESH, WKMG Local 6, and WFTV.

Read The Association for the Study of African American Life and History's statement about the Massacre at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church here.