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

In this week's episode, I talk with the poet Tim J. Myers about spirituality, open systems of belief, and the passion of our favorite music and favorite people.   Check out my first interview with Tim all the way back on episode 63 . Check out the AWP panel on life balance back on episode 362 . Or check out Tim's listicle, " Improved Terms for Some Currently-Known Stuff ."

In this week's episode, I talk with Liz Prato about being the best haole possible in Hawaii, the mixing of history and memoir, respecting the natural environment, and other important matters. Photo by Jill Harriman Browning. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at Scribophile. TDO Listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the abov...

In this week's episode, I talk with Kendra DeColo about poetry, bohemian misadventures, editing, performing, and more. Photo by Lindsey Rome.

In this week's episode, I talk with Chet Weise, the publisher of Third Man Books. Photo by Jamie Goodsell. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at Scribophile. TDO Listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to register for a basic account, go here  while still logged in to upgrade the account with the discount. Chec...

In this episode, I share the most recent Loose Lips, the monthly current events literary thing run by Burrow Press, who selected me to curate and emcee this installment. This installment featured Deirdre Coyle, Erik Deckers, Bethany DuVall, Corwin Moore, and Tom Lucas. Photos by Katherine J. Parker. NOTES This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at Scribophile. TDO Listeners can get 20% o...

In this week's show, I talk with the great Erica Jong about writing in one's voice, being in love with language, the discipline of literature, revision, 18th century fiction, living healthy, and sonnets and other poetry, plus Vanessa Blakeslee and I discuss Erica Jong's book on writing, Seducing the Demon: Writing for my Life . TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES This episode is sponsored by Scribophile. TDO Li...

In this week's show, I talk with the fiction writer, children's book writer, and revision guru Arielle Haughee . Picture by Sona Photography. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES This episode is sponsored by Scribophile. TDO Listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to register for a basic account, go here while still logged in to upgrade the account with the disc...

In this week's show, C.H. Hooks and I sit down with some questionable red wine to discuss Florida, Florida literature, and the uses we make of writing. Photo by Miriam Berkley. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES This episode is sponsored by Scribophile. TDO Listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to register for a basic account, go here while still logged in to...

This week, we go to Walt Disney World with Nathan Holic and David James Poissant in order to discuss Cory Doctorow's science fiction novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom.    

In this week's episode, I talk to the poet Deborah Landau about her wonderful new poetry collection, Soft Targets, [caption id="attachment_24396" align="alignnone" width="4288"] Deborah Landau reading at AWP 2019. Photo by John King.[/caption] plus I share Copper Canyon's poetry reading from the 2019 AWP Conference, which featured Javier Zamora, Ellen Bass, Deborah Landau, and Jericho Brown. TEXT...

In this week's episode, I talk to Mitchell S. Jackson about finding joy in voice while dwelling on painful material in a memoir and novel. [caption id="attachment_24376" align="alignnone" width="1000"] Mitchell S. Jackson by John Ricard.[/caption] TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES This episode is sponsored by Scribophile. TDO Listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the abov...

In this week's episode, Vanessa Blakeslee and I discuss Eudora Welty's "Place in Fiction" (1955). TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES This episode is sponsored by Scribophile. TDO Listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to register for a basic account, go here while still logged in to upgrade the account with the discount. * Check out my adventure novel, Guy Ps...

I n this week's episode, I share my first mixtape in almost 2 years. Happy writing. Let me know what you think below. NOTES Please buy me .

In this week's episode, I talk with poet Campbell McGrath about his his new book, Nouns & Verbs , from a luminous lobby in Portland. Photo by Freesia McKee. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Check out my previous interview with Campbell from 3 years ago, back on episode 203 . If a literary adventure might be your jam, please consider buying my exciting new novel .

In this week's episode, I talk with poet and essayist Elisa Gabbert about the excitement of short-form essays, the glories of book design, not reading Moby Dick , and other literary confessions.    TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES If you are into literary adventure stories, please pick up a copy of my debut novel,  Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame .

In this week's episode, David James Poissant turns the tables on John King and interviews him about the miraculous release of his epic novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame . TEXT DISCUSSED Here is the original Guy Psycho short story .

In this week's episode, Chelsey Clammer, David James Poissant, Rion Amalcar Scott, and I discuss how to survive in the writing life before an AWP audience in Portland, Oregon. NOTES If you are anywhere near Miami, check out the O, Miami Poetry Festival . Please review this show on iTunes. My novel comes out next week.    

In this week's episode, I go back to Jack Kerouac's house to talk to fellow fiction writer and NYU alum Sara Batkie about Realism, Magic Realism, historical fiction, the composition of a story collection, NYU's MFA program, the upsides of reading for literary magazines, and our evolutions as writers. TEXT DISCUSSED

In this week's episode, Karen Price, Erik Deckers, Terry Ann Thaxton and I read Jack kerouac's poetry to the accompaniment of Ben Deckers's walking bass. Breaking down the show. Photo by Steve Erwin.[/caption] TEXTS DISCUSSED Episode 360 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 Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman about classical music, social class, memoir, and authenticity. Photo by Vanessa Borer. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES TDO will be sharing a table with Black Fox Literary Magazine at AWP at table T14104, plus I am moderating a panel on life-balance, which I clearly know nothing about. Also, my novel has a release date of April 16, 2019.  

In this week's episode, I talk again with Mark Blake, biographer of Peter Grant, about what happened to Led Zeppelin after Led Zeppelin. Photo by Ross Halfin.[/caption] TEXT DISCUSSED

In this week's episode, I talk to music writer Mark Blake about his new biography of Peter Grant, the man who empowered Led Zeppelin to become the most popular rock band of all time. Photo by Ross Halfin.[/caption] TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES I will be at AWP. Leave a comment if you are attending and would like a TDO meet and greet.  

In this week's episode, I talk to fiction writer Chad Anderson near the end of his residency at The Kerouac House here in Orlando, Florida. We spoke about the importance of memories, including lost ones, in the creation of our realities (and the fictions representing those realities), the complications of family, the glory of a long residency, and Washing DC as a writer's city. [caption id="attach...

In this week's episode, I talk to fiction writer Teresa Carmody about the joys of making books, the patterns needed for experimental work, and approaching the musicality of writing like meditation. Photo by Jared Alan Smith.    

In this week's episode, I talk to Todd James Pierce about his new biography of Ward Kimball from an epic corridor of The Wilderness Lodge at Walt Disney World. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Check out Todd's site and podcast, The Disney History Institute . Check out my previous interview with Todd back on Episode 218 .