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

On this week's program, I talk to Chelsea Alice about Salman Rushdie's playful parable from 2020, "The Old Man in the Piazza," published in The New Yorker , plus I share Salman Rushdie's 2017 event from Miami Book Fair, in which he reads from his novel, The Golde n House.

On this week's show, I talk to the fiction writer and former memoirist Jonathan Ames.

On today's show, Jeff Shuster and I discuss a wild, strange, deadpan, homicidal roadtrip story that is The Doom Generation .

Jeff Shuster & John King discuss the 1993 anthology horror film, Body Bags, starring an excitable John Carpenter.

On this week's show, Jeff Shuster and I discuss the 1992 Peter Jackson masterpiece of a family drama, Dead Alive .

On #546, Jeff Shuster and I discuss the strange 1991 masterpiece from France that is Delicatessen .

On this week's show, Jeff Shuster and I discuss the belated masterpiece that is the director's cut of Clive Barker's Nightbreed .

This week, I speak with my friend and colleague Ryan Rivas about his exciting, new, experimental memoir, Nextdoor in Colonialtown .

This week, my colleagues Christopher Odom, Bethany Duvall, Jared Silvia, and I sling writing advice from Full Sail University's Fifth Annual Creative Writing Conference.

This week, Samantha Nickerson speaks with novelist Marie Myung-Ok Lee about the musicality of novel-writing, and discovering the shape a novel requires despite one's intentions.

This week, I talk with historian and biographer Mark Braude about artist, model, and cabaret singer Kiki Man Ray and the art life in Paris in the 1920s.

This week, I catch up with longtime friend of the show, the brilliant creative nonfiction writer, Chelsey Clammer.

This week, the brilliant Chelsea Alice & I discuss John Bois's postmodern masterpiece, " 17776 ," which is partially about what football will look like in the time of the singularity. Probably no other fiction has made such utility out of the resources and mechanics of the internet for a reading experience.

On #537, I speak with the writer, publisher, and podcaster Michael Wheaton

This week, I speak with nonfiction writer Nona Willis Aronowitz about sex and feminism and other matters.

This week, Rachael Tillman and I discuss Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran, a long overdue read for both of us.

This week, I speak with Rachel Kolman about her immersion in creative non-fiction and her writing life after her UCF MFA.

This week, I speak with my occasional co-host, Rachel Tillman about Don Marquis's Archy & Mehitabel , a series of narrative poems written by a cockroach.

This week, I speak with literary biographer Miranda Seymour about the extraordinary career of Jean Rhys.

This week, I am happy to present a bootleg edition of the Loose Lips reading series, hosted by Dianne Turgeon Richardson and Tod Caviness, with readings by Rachel Kolman, Samantha Nickerson, moi, Holly Tavel, and Brian Crimmins.

On this episode, I speak with Disney historian Jamie Hecker about the relationship Walt Disney and the Disney Company have had with Washington D.C.

On #529, I speak with fiction writer Kathryn Harlan about her debut collection, Fruiting Bodies.

On #528, Rachel Tillman and I discuss Conversations with Friends , Sally Rooney's debut novel. TEXT DISCUSSED