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

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

On this week’s show, I talk to fiction writer and Southern Review co-editor, Cara Blue Adams! Plus jazz poetry by Richard Negri! Plus I answer the mail!

Episode 26 of The Drunken Odyssey features the Martin Amis event at Miami Book Fair International, November 17, 2012.

In this week's show, I report on Miami Book Fair International, where I interviewed Martin Amis, Irvine Welsh, and Bunny Yeager.

On this week’s show, I talk to humorist Jason Roeder, Plus Stephen McClurg writes about Shel Silverstein’s  Where the Sidewalk Ends .  

On Episode 23, I talk to Lissette Mendez of Miami Book Fair International and the novelist Darin Strauss, plus Sarah Blakeley discusses Laura Ingalls Wilder, and then I answer some mail.

On Episode 22 of  The Drunken Odyssey , John interviews the prolific Jacob M. Appel , Lisa Martens snarks on The Catcher in the Rye , and John answers a letter .

On Episode 21 of  The Drunken Odyssey , John  discusses mid-century grandeur and men's magazines and burlesque with   Jason Croft , aka Java, editor of   Bachelor Pad Magazine , then Beverly Army Williams discusses John Irving's A Widow for One Year .

On Episode 20 of  The Drunken Odyssey , John discusses Florida literature with the literary scholar Anna Lillios, then Alison Barker discusses Lydia Yuknavitch's The Chronology of Water , and John answers mail while listening to The Tequila Worms.

On Episode 19 of  The Drunken Odyssey , John speaks to fiction writer Don Peteroy, then K. C. Wilson discusses The Silmarillion , and John answers mail while listening to The Intoxicators.

On Episode 18 of  The Drunken Odyssey , John speaks to the novelist Richard Manchester, then Adam Walck discusses  House of Leaves and Moby Dick , and John answers mail while listening to the Necronomkids.

On Episode 17 of  The Drunken Odyssey , John speaks to the novelist and poet Chuck Wachtel (part 2 of a 2 part interview), speaks to Chris Booth about the New International Center, then Chad Lutz discusses  Beowulf , and John answers mail.

On Episode 16 of  The Drunken Odyssey , John speaks to the novelist and poet Chuck Wachtel (part 1 of a 2 part interview), then Patrick Jehle discusses The Baseball Encyclopedia .

On Episode 15 of  The Drunken Odyssey , John discusses the Disney Thing vis-a-vis himself, then talks to Disney historian Jeff Kurtti, plus Catherine Harnett discusses James Salter's Light Years .

On Episode 14 of  The Drunken Odyssey , John talks to novelist Susan Hubbard, plus Nate Rankin discusses  David Foster Wallace's The Pale King , and John answers mail.

On Episode 13 of  The Drunken Odyssey , John talks to Mikita Brottman about her new book 13 Girls , plus J.J. Anselmi discusses Lauren Slater , and John offers a cocktail recipe.

On Episode 12 of  The Drunken Odyssey , John talks to editor Jonathan Starke, plus Rusty Kjarvik discusses  Nikos K azantzakis, and John answers mail via a wormhole.

On Episode 11 of  The Drunken Odyssey , John talks to Mitchell S. Jackson, plus Robert Kingett discusses  William Wordsworth , and John answers mail.

On Episode 10 of The Drunken Odyssey , John talks to the poet Laren McClung, plus Claude Clayton Smith discusses  John Updike , and John answers mail.

On Episode 7 of The Drunken Odyssey , John talks to Lisa Roney and Jaroslav Kalfař about films again), plus Krista Graham discusses  Charles Dickens '  David Copperfield , and John answers mail.

On Episode 8 of The Drunken Odyssey, John talks to Ashley Ingaunta, plus Randall Burling discusses Roger Corman's Edgar Allen Poe films , and John answers mail.

On Episode 7 of The Drunken Odyssey, John talks to Lisa Roney and Jaroslav Kalfař, plus Alise Hamilton discusses  Francesca Lia Block 's Dangerous Angels , and John answers mail.

Episode 6 features an interview with Jaroslav Kalfař about Stephen King's  On Writing , and Debbie Weaver discussing Cheryl Strayed's iWild, plus listener mail.

On Episode 5 of The Drunken Odyssey, John talks to the poet Monica Wendel, author of the chapbook Call it a Window, plus Olivia Kate Cerrone discusses The Watcher in the Woods, and John answers mail.

On Episode 4 of The Drunken Odyssey , John talks to the Shakespearean actor/director/scholar Kevin Crawford, plus Adam Michael Walk discusses Gravity's Rainbow , and John answers mail.