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

On #526 I talk to poet Rochelle Hurt about her latest book, The J Girls: A Reality Show .

On #525,  I talk to Brynne Rebele-Henry about divinity, sexuality, and historical imagination in her extraordinary latest collection of verse, Prelude.

On #524, I talk to Yeoh Jo-Ann, the spring 2022 resident of the Kerouac Project of Orlando, about her novel,  Impractical Uses of Cake, proper otter behavior, the role of agency in happiness, cat envy, teaching Shakespeare to teenagers, and the small ways teachers entertain themselves every day.

I n this week's episode, I talk to Aaron Angello about his new book, The Fact of Memory: 114 Ruminations and Fabrications , the creative benefits of daily ritual, writing (cough) early in the morning, David Lynch, the mysteries of the word and , and ditching academic rules for the Muses.

I n this week's episode, I talk to Ann Hood about the challenges of writing nonfiction, the intertwining of feminism and women's rights and the history of aviation before and after deregulation, the value of non-writing jobs for young writers, and so much more.

In this week's show, I speak with the creative nonfiction writer Nita Noveno about the Peace Corps, having a writing community, the Kerouac House, gators, gators, and more gators, and bears, and all of Florida's wild charms, including the people.

In this week's show, I speak with Rachael Tillman about the poetry and practice of Anne Sexton.

In this week's show, I speak with the poet Marisa Siegel about the value of combining poetry with graphic art, language poetry, discovering poetry early in life, and the Mills College MFA Program in Oakland.

In this week's show, I speak with the poet Vidhu Aggarwal about humor in poetry, the physicality of laughter, symbology, physics and spirituality, The Mahabharata, Samuel Beckett, and Shakespeare.

In this week's show, I speak with the poet Kimberly Ann Priest about purposeful ambiguity in poetry and the minor disturbing oddities in Hieronymus Bosch.  

On #516 Rachel Tillman and I discuss the novels of Sally Rooney.

On #515, I talk to Sara Manning Peskin about the history of the mysteries and discoveries of medical science.

In this week's show, I talk to Laura Costas about the pleasures of disorientation, the surprises of actual history, the complexity of myth, and postmodernism.

In #513, I talk to Jane-Rebecca Cannarella about genre bending & blending, illustrating literature, and the dialectics of Disney's The Little Mermaid .

In this week's show, I talk to Lan Samantha Chan about writing a novel over a long period of time, learning and teaching at the Iowa Writers Workshop, the value of writing communities, and balancing teaching, administrative work, and writing.

On today's show, I talk to TDO's comic book blogger Drew Barth to discuss Walt Simonson's astounding mythical, iconoclastic run on Thor back in the 1980s.

Sandra Lim talks about optimism, editing through the pile of a poem, letting oneself go in the current of the stream, and finding a grounding in the abstractions of mind and word.

On today's show, co-novelists Laura Blackett and Eve Gleichman talk about corporate cults, collaborative writing, and satire.

Memoirist Sonya Huber discusses how to write the way that we think, including the semiotic leapfrogs of memory, and trying to depict the precarious balance of reality.

On #506, Shruti  Swarmy  talks about calling the reader into a complete, already alive imaginary world, and writing about dance in ways that transcend rational, orderly prose.

On today's show, I speak with the memoirist Brian Broome, winner of the 2021 Kirkus Prize for nonfiction. Photo by Annie O'Neill TEXT DISCUSSED

On today's show, I speak with fiction writer Zaina Arafat about love, identity, sarcasm, and their complications for storytelling.

Raymond Antrobus, Carlie Hoffman, and Tiana Nobile read & discuss their poetry in this 2021 Miami Book Fair event.