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 04, 2013 Episode 47: Nerd Love, Sweet Birds of Youth, and Everything Else in the Universe (A Live Reading)
Episode 47 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is now available.

This week, it's a great live event!

Notes

If you live in Central Florida, come to the next event in Jared Sylvia's Functionally Literate series, despite the fact that I am reading there.

1 hr 16 min
April 27, 2013 Episode 46: Terry Ann Thaxton!
Episode 45 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available.

This week, I talk to the poet Terry Ann Thaxton,

Plus Madison Bernath reviews 360 GLAZED DONUT VODKA!

Texts Discussed

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Notes

Madison's review of 360 Glazed Donut Vodka first appeared on McSweeney's Internet Tendency.

Wikipedia decides that women aren't "American novelists," according to this Times story.

I'll be reading with Philip Deaver, Monica Wendel, and Enid Schumer on May 11th at the Timucua Arts White House.

1 hr 30 min
April 19, 2013 Episode 45: Richard Peabody!

On Episode 45 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, I talk to Richard Peabody, the editor of Gargoyle Magazine,

Plus Kirsten Holt reads a beautiful elegy.

Texts Discussed

Notes
The music for Last Call was “Night Flight” by the band Carlton Melton.
The 2013 Pulitzer Prize Winners.
58 min
April 14, 2013 Episode 44: Erin Belieu!
Episode 44 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is npw available.

This week, I talk to the poet and VIDA's co-founder Erin Belieau,

Plus Julie Henderson discusses Clive Barker's The Thief of Always.

Texts Discussed

Notes

Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s Titus Andronicus runs through April 28.

Pablo Neruda's body is being exhumed, after his poetry was last month desecrated by a Kentucky Senator.

Ireland mints a James Joyce coin. Textual scholars are already at work discrediting the text.

Music for this week’s essay provided by Steven McClurg.

1 hr 25 min
April 06, 2013 Episode 43: Lillian-Yvonne Bertram!
On episode 43 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, I talk to the poet Lillian-Yvonne Bertram,

Plus James Best discusses Gatsby.

Texts Discussed

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Notes

Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s Titus Andronicus runs through April 28.

Music for this week’s essay provided by Carlton Melton.

Grrr: Amazon buys Goodreads.com.

The Tequila Worms have generously offered their album Cantina as a free download.

1 hr 31 min
March 29, 2013 Episode 42: Stephen Elliott and Isaac Fitzgerald!
Episode 42 is here.

This week, I talk to Stephen Elliott and Isaac Fitzgerald of The Rumpus,

plus Astrid Cooke writes about Stephen King's The Stand.

Texts Discussed

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Isaac Fitzgerald's Why I Agreed to be a Bend-over Boyfriend.

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Notes

Orlando Shakespeare Theater's Titus Andronicus runs through April 28.

Music for this week's essay provided by Zelda Re-orchestrated.

Chinua Achebe, Literary Titan, dies at 82.
1 hr 3 min
March 23, 2013 Episode 41: Emily Brandt!
Episode 41 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

On this week’s show, I talk to the poet and teacher Emily Brandt,

Plus Denise Falcone talks about Nabokov's Ada.

Texts Discussed

The Inside Colocation blog.

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I love the ad-free dictionary aggregator, wordnik.

The New Yorker Rejects Itself.
1 hr 15 min
March 15, 2013 Episode 40: Tony Hoagland!
On episode 40, I talk to the poet Tony Hoagland,

Plus Bob Lamb Explains How Ernest Hemingway saved him from Rendition.

Texts Discussed

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What Narcissism Means to Me: Poems" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">

Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty: Poems" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">

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Show Notes

This episode begins with a limerick written and read by Chris Booth, in honor of our pal Steve Kelly:
Just a few, and Steve's eyes 'gan to wander; Then day next he was mute and a-ponder: When he saw where he woke, In sad tones, thus he spoke: "It's Absinthe makes the heart to grow fonder."
1 hr 21 min
March 06, 2013 Episode 39: Rick Moody!
Episode 39 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is now available.

On this week’s show, I talk to Rick Moody,

James Best explains why he isn't afraid of sharks,

Plus I talk to the playwright and actor Charlie Bethel about his current one man show of The Odyssey.

Texts Discussed

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Notes

The Drunken Odyssey will be making a pub crawl in Boston this Friday.

1 hr 19 min
March 02, 2013 Episode 38: Matthew Pitt!
On this week’s show, I talk to the fiction writer Matthew Pitt,

plus Pamela Skjolsvik discusses David Sedaris’s Me Talk Pretty One Day.

Texts Discussed

Ishmael Reed’s WSJ blog about Django Unchained.

Kirtsen Holt’s new poem, Taxonomy.

Richie Havens’s “Freedom”

Notes:

Orlando Shakespeare Theatre presents Othello, now through March 16th.
1 hr 42 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.