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

Episode 53 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on  iTunes , or right click here to download. On this week’s show, I talk to Cheryl Strayed, Plus I share the piece that first made me read Cheryl Strayed’s work, Deborah Weaver’s essay about  Wild . TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES On June 22, The Drunken Odyssey will be here: • Recent reports about t...

On this week’s show, I talk once again to Nathan Holic, who first appeared on this show all the way back on  episode 1 , Plus Drew Perlmutter discusses the Cannes Film Festival, Plus Nicholas Brown discusses Larry McMurtry's  Lonesome Dove . Texts Discussed NOTES

On this week’s show, I answer some mail with my friend, David James Poissant, Plus Cathy Day Addresses The Man Who Called Her On the Phone Asking for Advice About How to Get Published. Notes Cathy Day's essay first appeared on her blog, right  here . If you are in Central Florida on June 16th, come celebrate  Bloomsday  with us! Book Fight's Exceedingly Accurate Blurb: “ The Drunken Odyssey with J...

On this week’s show, I talk to the memoir writer David Sedaris, plus Pamela Skjolsvik discusses David Sedaris’s  Me Talk Pretty One Day, and Adriana Lecuona writes about Ursula K. Le Guin's "Those Who Leave Omelas." Texts Discussed Notes David's inscription in my copy of  Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim .

On this week’s show, I interview my friend, the poet Monica Wendel, who is in residency at The Kerouac House, Photo by Ashley Inguanta plus Chelsey Clammer writes about Marya Hornbacher’s  Madness . Texts Discussed Notes Two great Orlando events are coming up this week : 1. On Wednesday, May 22, 7 PM, the fiction writer Colin Winnette will be reading in the sOFT eXPOSURE reading series.  Get detai...

Episode 48 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is here! On this week's show, I interview the fiction writer Dylan Landis plus the poet Eleanor Lerman writes about Leonard Cohen's Spice Box of Earth.

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.

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 360 Vodka Glazed Donut 750ml" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Notes Madison's review of 360 Glazed Donut Vodka first appeared on  McSweeney's In...

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 .

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 h...

On e pisode 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 Carlton Melton's  Photos Of Photos" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">Photos of Photos . Photos Of Photos" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Notes Orlando Shakespeare T...

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 Happy Baby" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> About Cherry [Blu-ray]" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Isaac Fitzgerald's  Why I Agreed to be a Bend-over Boyfriend . The Stand" style="color: #990000;...

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. Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle" style="color: #990000; text-decorati...

On episode 40, I talk to the poet Tony Hoagland, Plus Bob Lamb Explains How Ernest Hemingway saved him from Rendition. Texts Discussed Sweet Ruin (Brittingham Prize in Poetry)" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> What Narcissism Means to Me: Poems" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: non...

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 On Celestial Music: And Other Adventures in Listening" style=...

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.

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... Texts Discussed: Uncontainable Noise" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Child of God" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Laurence Sterne And the Visual Imagination" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Notes: Orlando Shakespear...

On this week’s show, The Drunken Odyssey All-Stars & I get erotic, poetically speaking... Here are the ancestral German kissing dolls shown off by Lisa Claire Roney on the show! The Drunken Odyssey All-Stars ______________________________ 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,...

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 s...

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: Hamlet" style="color: #990000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;...

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 underpric...

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 The Skinvestigator: Tramp Stamp (Sunshine State Trilogy)" style="color: #990000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana, Arial, He...

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 Driver's Education: A Novel" style="color: #990000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.8; text-decoration: none;"> This Is How It Starts: A Novel" style=...

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 The Elementals" style="color: #990000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.8; text-decoration: n...

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.