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

I n this week’s episode, I interview memoir writer J. C. Sevcik, plus Nancy Caronia readers her personal essay,  Postmortem . TEXTS DISCUSSED Read some of J. C. Sevcik's essays here , here , and here . Brain-dead Megaphone" target="_blank"> NOTES Miami Book Fair is coming up: November 15-22. TDO is now on Instagram .

This week is a live show for Horror Movie Poetry Night 2, starring The Drunken Odyssey All Stars, brought to you several days early for your Halloweening pleasure. Photos by Racquel Henry. On this occasion, The Drunken Odyssey All-Stars included: Tom Lucas (The Mouth of Madness) Teege Braune (The Creature from the Black Lagoon) Anna King (House of 1,000 Corpses/The Devil's Rejects) Mark Purcell (R...

I n this week’s episode, I interview bizarro fiction writer Tom Lucas, plus Dallas Woodburn writes about how reading Aimee Bender'’s The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake changed her life. TEXTS DISCUSSED Pax Titanus" target="_blank"> NOTES The Drunken Odyssey: A Podcast About the Writing Life presents another evening of verse inspired by that most poetic of film genres: horror! Featuring Mark Purc...

  I n this week’s episode, I share a recording of a Halloween show in Jesse Bradley’s prose reading series,  There Will Be Words , in which I was a reader.     Besides moi, the show featured Raymond McKee Will Garland Danita Berg J. C. Sevcik Peg Martin Catherine Carson, and Tom Lucas.   JC Sevcik (Photo by Patrick Greene) NOTES Check out Michael Hearst 's new album, Film Music and Other Scores, V...

I n this week’s episode, I interview my occasional co-host Vanessa Blakeslee about her new novel,  Juventud , Photo by Ashley Inguanta. plus James Stewart III writes about how reading David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest changed his life. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Come see Vanessa on book tour, including her upcoming appearance on October 18th in the Sunday Salon series with Orlando Ferrand, Anu Jinda...

I n this week’s episode, we have a roundtable discussion of Edgar Allen Poe. Present for this discussion were Jared Silvia, Shawn Whittington, Dianne Turgeon Richardson, Matt Peters, and Teege Braune, Jared, put THAT damned knife away. So you're saying my thesis isn't solid? Really? NOTES Check out the sweet swag in  The Drunken Odyssey ‘s fundraiser here . Check out these Burrow Press events . Li...

I n this week’s episode, I talk to chronicler of the rambling life, Michele Roldán Shaw , Photo by Pressly Hall Giltner Photography. plus Nancy Caronia reads her essay, "Deserving Angels."   NOTES Check out the sweet swag in  The Drunken Odyssey 's fundraiser here . Check out these Burrow Press events . Literary Death Match will be judged by Billy Collins. Saturday October 3rd  |  Functionally Lit...

I n this week’s episode, I talk about Jorge Luis Borges's This Craft of Verse with Vanessa Blakeslee , Photo by Ashley Inguanta. plus Jared Silvia performs Peter Seger's "Hobo's Lullaby." TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Check out the great perks for The Drunken Odyssey’s fundraiser   here . Gator finger puppets not included.

I n this week’s episode, I talk to prose writer and educator, Danita Berg , plus Catherine Carson reads her poem, "Reverse Evolution, or Sex in the Environment." TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES If you live in Orlando, check out Meg Sefton’s upcoming workshop on the fundamentals of flash fiction here . It will take place on September 27, 2015. Check out the great perks (such as TDO T-shirts) for The Drunken...

I n this week’s episode, I talk to fiction writer J. R. Miller, plus C.T. McMillan writes about the unsettling moral complexities of  Untold Tales of the Punisher Max. TEXTS DISCUSSED   NOTES Check out the great perks for The Drunken Odyssey’s fundraiser   here . If you live in Orlando, check out Meg Sefton’s upcoming workshop on the fundamentals of flash fiction here . It will take place on Septe...

Check out the great perks for The Drunken Odyssey’s fundraiser   here . I n this week’s episode, I talk to the poet and novelist Eleanor Lerman , plus Nancy Caronia reads her essay, "Quiet." TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Check out the great perks for The Drunken Odyssey’s fundraiser   here . Check out Meg Sefton’s upcoming workshop on the fundamentals of flash fiction here . To read about Kate Gale’s cont...

I n this week’s episode, I share a recording of a fan fiction installment of Jesse Bradley’s prose reading series, There Will Be Words . The There Will Be Fan Fiction featured Teege Braune Jared Silvia Stephanie Rizzo Genevieve Anna Tyrrell and moi . NOTES Check out the great perks for The Drunken Odyssey’s fundraiser   here . Check out There Will Be Words .

I n this week’s episode, I talk about Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own with Vanessa Blakeslee , Photo by Ashley Inguanta. plus Christopher Booth reads "The Disappointment," by Aphra Behn. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Check out The Drunken Odyssey’s fundraiser and related perks here .

Check out the great perks for The Drunken Odyssey's fundraiser here . I n this week’s episode, I talk to the journalist Brian Spears , plus Eugenio Negro writes about the adventure of reading Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. BOOKS DISCUSSED NOTES On Tuesday, August 11 , at 7:00 P.M. at The Gallery at Avalon Island in downtown Orlando, Jared Silvia, Stephanie Rizzo, Teege Braune, Genevieve Anna...

This week features a live Event on the theme of childhood, with Wilson Santos, Ashley Inguanta, Vincent Crampton, Amy Watkins, and moi, as your humble emcee. This reading was in honor of Wilson Santos's spoken word film, My Verse , which I talked to him about back on episode 138 . NOTES Check out more about Wilson Santos’ Dominican Republic project, including how to donate, here .

I n this week’s episode, I talk to the journalist David Z. Morris , plus Shin Yu Pai writes about how Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake changed her life. Photo by Kelly O. BOOKS DISCUSSED NOTES Rest in Peace, E.L. Doctorow . Check out David Z. Morris's site, here . Check out his Art Basel essay here . Check out his Iowa City music essay, "Only What is Dead Can Live Forever," here . Check out Shin Yu Pa...

Episode 162 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on  iTunes , or right click  here  to download. I n this week’s episode, I talk to the novelist Charles Blackstone , Photo by by Erika Dufour. plus Don Campell about how finding a copy of John Krakauer’s Into the Wild on the Appalachian Trail changed his life. TEXTS DISCUSSED The Week You W...

On this week’s show, I answer some mail with my friend,  David James Poissant , Plus Amy Watkins reads her poem "Playa Linda." TEXTS DISCUSSED Selected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Series)" target="_blank"> NOTES James Tate , rest in very weird peace.

I n this week’s episode, I talk to the poet Ciara Shuttleworth, Photo by Drew Perlmutter. plus Don Royster writes about how Isaac Asimov helped him to appreciate Shakespeare. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES To read about Ciara's post-residency road-tripping with Flat Jack, here is part 1 and part 2 . To read Thomas Jefferson's original draft of The Declaration of Independence, go here .

I n this week’s episode, I talk to myself and share some music. Musicality affects my writing a lot. Perhaps I cherish sound since I nearly went deaf as a child. It took awhile for Sinatra to enter my imagination, but since taking up residency there, Frank hasn't left. So this mixtape is devoted to this man and his music, and a few other people along the way.

I n this week’s episode, I talk to the historian Julian Chambliss, Dmetri Kakmi writes about how reading Paul Bowles’s The Sheltering Sky taught him how to write about psycho-geographic dis-associations. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Check out Julian Chambliss's site here . Check out John Sims' site devoted to the Confederate flag project. Check out the news coverage of the Flag Funerals Project by (in or...

  I n this week’s episode, I talk to fiction writer Shane Hinton,   plus Sayantani Dasgupta writes about how Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea changed her life.   TEXTS DISCUSSED     NOTES   Tuesday, June 16th, is Bloomsday. Celebrate wherever you are by listening again to a bang-up, in-studio, Bloomsdaying production on episode 104 ,   or if in NYC celebrate the day on which Uly...

I n this week’s episode, I talk to fiction writer and poet Stacy Barton, plus Shawn Whittington writes about how The Hobbit changed his life.

I n this week’s episode, I talk about Longinus's "On the Sublime,"   with Vanessa Blakeslee, Plus LindaAnn Loschiavo writes about how Louisa May Alcott's Little Women changed her life. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES New York Classical Theatre 's production of  The Taming of the Shrew , which is free, will wander its way across Central Park (Thurs through Sun, May 26 - June 28), Prospect Park (Tues. & Wed.,...

I n this week’s episode, I interview the poet Cailtin Doyle, plus Jeremy Da Cruz writes about reading James Joyce's "Eveline" on Amtrak. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES In Orlando, check out Wordier Than Thou, the open mic night that is roving across Florida. On Wednesday, May 27 , it's at Stardust Coffee and Video. On June 14 , come celebrate The Drunken Odyssey's 3rd birthday on a monorail line pub crawl....