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

May 03, 2014 Episode 97: Lu Vickers!
On this week’s show, I talk to the fiction writer and historian of Florida attractions Lu Vickers,

Plus Joe Marchia writes about Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood.

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Check out this indiegogo crowd-sourcing effort to bring St. Mark’s Bookshop to a new home in the East Village.

Sheman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is given away to students in an Iowa district in which the novel is banned from schools.

On May 13th, I will participate in The Best of There Will Be Words 2013 show. If you're in Orlando, join us.
1 hr 7 min
April 26, 2014 Episode 96: Rick Moody Event!
Episode 96 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, I present Rick Moody's recent reading at the University of Central Florida. TEXTS DISCUSSED

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Check out this indiegogo crowd-sourcing effort to bring St. Mark’s Bookshop to a new home in the East Village.
1 hr 8 min
April 19, 2014 Episode 95: Rick Moody 2!
On this week’s show, I talk to fiction writer and one-time memoirist Rick Moody,
Rick Moody at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida. Photo by John King.
Plus I share his prose reading "Metal," with music by One Ring Zero.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Read Rick Moody's 14,000 word essay about David Bowie's The Next Day here.

John Lee Hooker, putting The Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton, in their places, when he was 72 years old.

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This soundtrack with John Lee Hooker playing with Miles Davis is deliciously good.

Check out Episode 39, with my first interview with Rick, here.

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R.I.P., Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Check out this indiegogo crowd-sourcing effort to bring St. Mark’s Bookshop to a new home in the East Village.
1 hr 11 min
April 12, 2014 Episode 94: Eleanor Lerman!
On this week’s show, I talk to the poet Eleanor Lerman,

Plus Alden Jones writes about her time working in Cuba.

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Check out episode 48 to hear Eleanor Lerman's essay about Leonard Cohen's Spice Box of Earth.

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Check out the indiegogo crowd-sourcing effort to bring St. Mark’s Bookshop to a new home in the East Village. Endorsed by this show and Anne Waldman.

I recommend Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s production of Julius Caesar, playing until April 20th.

Check out Beating Windward Press’s call for essays for its forthcoming essay collection, The Things They Did For Money: How Writers, Artists, and Creatives Support the Habit.
1 hr 17 min
April 05, 2014 Episode 93: St. Mark's Bookshop!
On this week’s show, I talk to Bob Contant and Terry McCoy, the owners of St. Mark's Bookshop,

Plus Dan Lauer writes about identity and New York City.

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Check out the indiegogo crowd-sourcing effort to bring St. Mark's Bookshop to a new home in the East Village. Endorsed by this show and Anne Waldman.

I recommend Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s production of Julius Caesar, playing until April 20th.

Check out Beating Windward Press’s call for essays for its forthcoming essay collection, The Things They Did For Money: How Writers, Artists, and Creatives Support the Habit.

Episode 93 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
58 min
March 29, 2014 Episode 92: J. Bradley!
On this week’s show, I talk to the multidisciplinary wonder that is J. Bradley,

Plus Molly Gleeson writes about reading Anthony Trollope while teaching in Saudia Arabia.

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Hear J. Bradley read his "You + Me = Awwwwwww Yeah" + "Pussycat Interstellar Naked Hotrod Mofo Ladybug Lust Blaster" by Derrick Brown on the second erotic poetry live show of The Drunken Odyssey.

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I recommend Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s production of Julius Caesar, playing until April 20th.

Check out Beating Windward Press’s call for essays for its forthcoming essay collection, The Things They Did For Money: How Writers, Artists, and Creatives Support the Habit.

In England, authors are protesting a new measure that prohibits inmates from getting access to books in the mail (BBC).

Beckett once directed his own plays, in performances featuring San Quentin inmates.

Here's an image of the Chronic City finale poster.

1 hr 16 min
March 23, 2014 Episode 91: Laura Van Den Berg!
On this week’s show, I talk to fiction writer Laura Van Den Berg,

Plus Will Dowd reads two poems.

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I recommend Orlando Shakespeare Theater's production of Julius Caesar, playing until April 20th.

Check out Beating Windward Press's call for essays for its forthcoming essay collection, THE THINGS THEY DID FOR MONEY: HOW WRITERS, ARTISTS, AND CREATIVES SUPPORT THE HABIT.
1 hr 8 min
March 16, 2014 Episode 90: St. Patrick's Day Roundtable!
On this week’s show, my friends Teege Braune of In Boozo Veritas fame, Matt Peters, Jared Silvia, and my brother James King join me for a wooly discussion of St. Patrick's Day. Much was consumed.
Jared and James watch Teege do his miraculous pouring technique. The foot of good cheer. How can it be possible Teege is only a quarter Irish? Creamy toasty goodness. Eventually, the peer pressure was too great for sweet Matthew.

My red face was sunburn. The angle of my head, weariness.
2 hr
March 15, 2014 Episode 89: David James Poissant!
On this week’s show, I talk to fiction writer David James Poissant,

Plus Max Bakke writes about Nick Hornby's High Fidelity.

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Read David James Poissant's "I Want to be Friends with Republicans" here.

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OST's William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar can be seen from March 19 - April 20, 2014. Go here for more details.
Anne Hering, Esau Pritchett, Paul Bernardo, from Orlando Shakespeare Theater's forthcoming production of Julius Caesar.
1 hr 52 min
March 08, 2014 Episode 88: John Henry Fleming!
On this week’s episode of the world's greatest writing podcast, I talk to fiction writer John Henry Fleming,

Plus James Sanders writes about reading The Autobiography of Malcom X.

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The VIDA count for 2013 is now available.

Orlando now has a new independent bookshop: Bookmark It, at the East End Market in Winter Park (3201 Corrine Drive).

Find Burrow Press’s releases here, & check out the discounted subscription rate.

If you live in Orlando, do come to Vanessa’s book release party.

1 hr 11 min

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

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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.