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

On this week’s show, I talk to the poet Steve Davenport,

Joe Conley plums Cormac McCarthy's Child of God,

Plus I answer some mail...

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Notes:

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

Throughout February, Rollins College will be hosting its annual author series, Winter with the Writers.

On this week’s show, The Drunken Odyssey All-Stars & I get erotic, poetically speaking...

The Drunken Odyssey All-Stars

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Vanessa Blakeslee

Tod Caviness

Genevieve Tyrrell

Anna King

Ryan Rivas

Kirsten Holt

Susan Lilley

Plus

A letter from James Best,

A limerick from Christopher Booth,

and show & tell with Lisa Claire Roney!

Episode 35 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available.

On this week’s show, I talk with my friend Philip F. Deaver, who happens to have won a Flannery O'Conner Award,

plus Helena-Anne Htittel discusses Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner.

Texts Discussed:

Notes

Throughout February, Rollins College will be hosting its annual author series, Winter with the Writers.

Orlando Shakespeare Theatre presents Othello, now through March 16th. Get the Groupon here.

In other Shakespeare news, Richard III's remains were found underneath a parking lot. I'm not making this up--it's in The Times.

Episode 34 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is here!

On this week’s show, I talk Shakespeare with Stephen Burdman, the artistic director of New York Classical Theatre,

Plus Bronte Bettencourt talks about Lestat.

Texts Discussed:

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Notes

Laurence Olivier's screenplay adaptation of his never-filmed Macbeth has been found, according to The Guardian.

Barnes and Noble will be closing 20 stores a year for the next decade, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Episode 33 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right here for download.

On this week’s show, I interview noted reviewer Chauncey Mabe,

Plus Adam Soldolfsky reads from Panorama-orama.

Notes

Chauncey Mabe's now defunct but still evergreen blog for the Florida Center for the Literary Arts.

Amazon cannot underprice books in France, as reported in The New York Times.

Books and Books, the best independent in South Florida.

Orlando Cultural Events

This week, the Zora Neale Hurston Festival is underway.

Attend The Drunken Odyssey's Evening of Erotic Poetry on February 8th.

Throughout February, Rollins College will be hosting its annual author series, Winter with the Writers.

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

Episode 33 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right here for download.

Episode 32 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is now available.

On this week’s show, I interview novelist Terry Cronin,

And Jean Davis offers one amazing essay about Write is a Verb.

Texts Discussed

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Notes

Susan Lilley will be reading from her new book of poems, Satellite Beach, on Thursday, January 24th, at Rollins College. For more info, click here.

Show contributor Alise Hamilton (episode 7) discusses bingers and plodders, and the merits of the former as writers, at Bill and Dave's Cocktail Hour.

A history of the Coppertone sign.

On this week's show, I interview novelist Grant Ginder,

Plus Tim J. Myers discusses Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are,

Texts Discussed

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On this weeks show, I interview the ever-fabulous Francesca Lia Block,

Plus Lillian-Yvonne Bertram reads her poem, "You Can’t Outdrink The Moon, O Sestina, Sestina Who Has Been Drinking."

Texts Discussed

On January 6th, Ashley Inguanta will perform her debut collection, The Way Home, with musicians Mandy Burgan and Benoit Glazer, and with dancer Christin Carlow. Find out more here.

The greatest new trend in libraries.

Matt Taibbi's Readers' list of 10 most pretentious moments in history.

James Franco is, umm, a poet. [Guardian] [The New York Times]

The Drunken Odyssey Xmas Party features original works by

Ashley Inguanta

Jamie Poissant

Lisa Claire Roney

Steph Jurusz

Anna King

Olivia Kate Cerrone

and John King.

It took place on

Thursday, December 13th, 7 P.M.

at

Urban Re-Think

625 E Central Blvd

Orlando, FL, 32801.

On this week's show, I talk to the graphic novelist J. T. Waldman, plus Elizabeth Sauchelli discusses Star Girl.