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

September 22, 2013 Episode 67: Lindsay Hunter!
On this week’s show, I talk to the fiction writer Lindsay Hunter,

Plus David Dadurka writes about Lewis Carroll.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

A North Carolina school board has voted to ban Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.

The Heaven of Animals, the forthcoming collection from friend-of-the-show David James Poissant, is available for pre-order. Please support the launch of his first book!

Episode 67 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
1 hr 8 min
September 14, 2013 Episode 66: Kalliope Lee!
On this week’s show, I talk to the novelist Kalliope Lee,

plus Scott Hoffman talks about John Demos's The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

Until Tuesday, September 17th, 8 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, you can get a free ebook of Sunday Girl by going to smashwords, searching for Sunday Girl, and entering the code CV74V.

The Taming of the Shrew runs September 11th through October 6th at Orlando Shakespeare Theater. Get tickets here.

An author's first duty is to let down his country.

--Brandon Behan.

See my Pinupalooza photos here.
1 hr 21 min
September 06, 2013 Episode 65: Orlando Shakespeare Theater!
On this week’s show, I talk to three of the stars of Orlando Shakespeare Theatre's production of The Taming of the Shrew.

Geoffrey Kent (Petruchio)

And Deanna Gibson (Kate)

John Ahlin (Baptista)

And J. Bradley talks about being haunted by The Cure.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

OST's The Taming of the Shrew runs September 11th through October 6th.

Get tickets here.

1 hr 9 min
August 31, 2013 Episode 64: Francesca Lia Block 2
On this week’s show, I talk to the novelist Francesca Lia Block,
Photo by Nicolas Sage
Plus I share Alise Hamilton's essay about Francesca (originally from Ep. 7)

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Empathy, Love and the LGBT Characters in my Books by Francesca Lia Block NOTES Posthumous novels by J. D. Salinger are forthcoming, possibly, maybe. Seamus Heaney has died.
Special thanks to Doug Nevel!
1 hr 3 min
August 24, 2013 Episode 63: Tim J. Myers
On this week’s show, I talk to the poet Tim J. Myers,

Plus Dan Lauer explains the impact Spalding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia had on him.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

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NOTES

Walter Pater: "All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music" (From The School of Giogione).

Think about helping Beating Windward Press fund new art for its Doc Voodoo pulp fiction series. The swag is considerable, like this t-shirt.

1 hr 23 min
August 17, 2013 Episode 62: Mailbag Episode 2 (Electric Boogaloo)
Episode 62 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is here.

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

Plus Jared Silvia reads his amazing new essay, "City of Ghosts." TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

• Think about helping Beating Windward Press fund new art for its Doc Voodoo pulp fiction series. The swag is considerable, like this t-shirt.

• Members of Pussy Riot! are serving time in a Russian jail for the charge of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred." What they did was perform "Mother of God, Drive Putin Away" in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. While these women are rightly venerated as warriors of free speech, and the phrase "Free Pussy Riot!" is now famous as a movement. What I learned this week, though, is that besides all of that, their music also happens to be fucking wild and should be respected by anyone who has an ear for punk.

Listen to their EP, Kill the Sexist.

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1 hr 29 min
August 10, 2013 Episode 61: Chad Benson!
This week, I interview my friend, the fiction writer Chad Benson, who also happens to be a rock musician called Quinn W. Shagbark,

plus Jesse Duthrie talks about John Barth's The Floating Opera.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

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NOTES

If you are writing in Denver, check out the Lighthouse Writer's Workshop.

Read about Quinn W. Shagbark in Slate.

On Tuesday, August 13th, at Urban ReThink in downtown Orlando, I will read with

JOSEFINE KLOUGART,

DAN LAUER, &

DREW JOHNSON

in Jesse Bradley’s series, There Will Be Words, which was just named the best reading series in Orlando by Orlando Weekly.

Two days later, I will be reading an art-inspired piece in this event:

1 hr 39 min
August 03, 2013 Episode 60: Gilbert King!
On Episode 60 of The Drunken Odyssey, I interview the Pulitzer Prize-winning non-fiction writer Gilbert King,

Plus Monty Joynes discusses coming across Talks and Dialogues by J. Krishnamurti

TEXTS DISCUSSED

1 hr 29 min
July 28, 2013 Episode 59: Alissa Nutting!
Episode 59 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is here!

On this week’s show, I talk to the fiction writer Alissa Nutting,

Plus Graham Liddell talks about reading What is the What.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

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NOTES

Margaret Atwood has penned a libretto about the life of Pauline Johnson, according to The Guardian.

Booksmatter has reposted Jonathan Lethem's essay "The Squandered Promise of Science Fiction."
1 hr 22 min
July 22, 2013 Episode 58: Philip Raisor!
On this week's show, I talk to the poet Philip Raisor,

Plus Melissa Crandall brings us some Xmas in July!

TEXTS DISCUSSED

1 hr 27 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.