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

In this week’s episode, I interview my occasional co-host Vanessa Blakeslee about her new novel, Juventud,

plus James Stewart III writes about how reading David Foster …

In this week’s episode, we have a roundtable discussion of Edgar Allen Poe.

Present for this discussion were Jared Silvia,

Shawn Whittington,

Dianne Turgeon Richardson,

Matt Peters,

and Teege B…

In this week’s episode, I talk to chronicler of the rambling life, Michele Roldán Shaw,

plus Nancy Caronia reads her essay, "Deserving Angels."

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In this week’s episode, I talk about Jorge Luis Borges's This Craft of Verse with Vanessa Blakeslee,

plus Jared Silvia performs Peter Seger's "Hobo's Lullaby."

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In this week’s episode, I talk to prose writer and educator, Danita Berg,

plus Catherine Carson reads her poem, "Reverse Evolution, or Sex in the Environment."

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If you live i…

In this week’s episode, I talk to fiction writer J. R. Miller,

plus C.T. McMillan writes about the unsettling moral complexities of Untold Tales of the Punisher Max.

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In this week’s episode, I talk to the poet and novelist Eleanor Lerman,

plus Nancy Caronia reads her essay, "Quiet."

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In this week’s episode, I share a recording of a fan fiction installment of Jesse Bradley’s prose reading series, There Will Be Words.

The There Will Be Fan Fiction featured

Teege Braune

Jared Si…

In this week’s episode, I talk about Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own with Vanessa Blakeslee,

plus Christopher Booth reads "The Disappointment,"

by Aphra Behn.

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In this week’s episode, I talk to the journalist Brian Spears,

plus Eugenio Negro writes about the adventure of reading Salman Ru…

This week features a live Event on the theme of childhood, with Wilson Santos, Ashley Inguanta, Vincent Crampton, Amy Watkins, and moi, as your humble emcee.

This reading was in honor of Wilson Santo…

In this week’s episode, I talk to the journalist David Z. Morris,

plus Shin Yu Pai writes about how Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake changed her life.

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Episode 162 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

In this week’s episode, I talk to the novelist…

On this week’s show, I answer some mail with my friend, David James Poissant,

Plus Amy Watkins reads her poem "Playa Linda."

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In this week’s episode, I talk to the poet Ciara Shuttleworth,

plus Don Royster writes about how Isaac Asimov helped him to appreciate Shakespeare.

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In this week’s episode, I talk to myself and share some music. Musicality affects my writing a lot. Perhaps I cherish sound since I nearly went deaf as a child. It took awhile for Sinatra to enter my…

In this week’s episode, I talk to the historian Julian Chambliss,

Dmetri Kakmi writes about how reading Paul Bowles’s The Sheltering Sky taught him how to write about psycho-geographic dis-associatio…

In this week’s episode, I talk to fiction writer Shane Hinton,

plus Sayantani Dasgupta writes about how Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea changed her life.

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In this week’s episode, I talk to fiction writer and poet Stacy Barton,

plus Shawn Whittington writes about how The Hobbit changed his life.

In this week’s episode, I talk about Longinus's "On the Sublime," with Vanessa Blakeslee,

Plus LindaAnn Loschiavo writes about how Louisa May Alcott's Little Women changed her life.

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