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

On this week’s program, I talk to the novelist and filmmaker, Tom Stern.

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I'll be at two forthcoming events in the City Beautiful.

Laura Lee Bahr will give her farewell readinga…

In this week’s episode, I talk with Vanessa Blakeslee about Alexander Pope’s Essay on Criticism and twitter and other stuff.

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On this week’s show, I talk to M. Evelina Galang about writing about the insistence of history, collaborating with other voices, being inspired by our elders, and conveying the true flux of language.

On this week’s show, I talk to essayist Chelsey Clammer about the lyric essay, finding humor in trauma, and being honestly surprising.

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On this week’s show, I talk to the poet David McLoghlin about the pains and joys of being a third culture kid, the aesthetic fun of the poetic sketch, the importance of travel and being present even …

On this week’s show, the format is quite different.

On this week’s show, I talk to poet, memoirist, and editor Brian Turner about how to build a strong anthology, how working in other media helps our writing, and working with our instincts in the writ…

On this week’s show, I share my interview with poet Sean Patrick Mulroy,

plus I chat with my veteran friend Joshua Dull (on the right) about his plans to do more mission work in Costa Rica.

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On this week’s show, I share interviews I did with the short story writer Jim Shepard

and one of my favorite novelists, Jennifer Egan.

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Episode 304 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 special AWP program, Vanessa Bl…

On this week’s program, I drive West of Orlando to meet up with two adventurers named Drunky & Rhiannon who've just happened to write the best guide to Walt Disney World as far is this show is concer…

On this week’s program, I talk to the novelist Cheryl Della Pietra, an editorial assistant to Hunter S. Thompson in 1992, about the dynamics of working with him, the reality of the actual writer's li…

In this week’s episode, I share a recording of Loose Lips, the monthly current events literary thing hosted by the inestimable Tod Caviness,

Patrick Scott Barnes and Tod Caviness by Katherine J. Par…

In this week’s episode, I talk with Vanessa Blakeslee about David Mamet's Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama. We manage not to kill one another.

On this week’s program, I talk to the novelist Laleh Khadivi about empathy, anticipating the future, the snarl of time management, challenging oneself as a writer as a form of motivation, the absolut…

On January 19th, 2018, Dianne Turgeon Richardson hosted an evening of protest poetry at Milk Bar in Orlando, Florida!

The readers included on this recording are Talor Carr, Rachel Fox, Lana Ghannam,…

Episode 297 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 program, I talk to poets Paul M…

On this week’s program, I talk to the poet Denise Duhamel about the role of politics and play in poetry.

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Here in Orlando, the City Beautiful, come out and hear some protest po…

On this week's program, I talk to Charles Simic about James Tate, Kansas surrealism, humor in poetry, and embracing the unconscious, plus I talk to Richard Blanco about the accidents that turn us int…