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

Join author John King for eclectic interviews with writers from a variety of genres, including fiction writing, poetry, memoirs, and journalism. From literature to genre writing to the movies, all writing is up for discussion. In particular, The Drunken Odyssey features discussion of all aspects of the writing process—not just the published manuscript, pristinely presented to the entire literate world, but also the scrawled notes and tortured drafts that lead writers there. In long-form

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531: Loose Lips July 2022!

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2022/07/09

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.

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01:09:50

530: Jamie Hecker!

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2022/07/02

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.

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01:03:43

529: Kathryn Harlan!

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2022/06/25

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

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01:29:49

528: A Discussion of Sally Rooney's Conversations...

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2022/06/18

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

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01:20:55

527: Mixtape 16: Sobering up the Muses

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2022/06/11

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526: Rochelle Hurt!

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2022/06/04

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

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525: Brynne Rebele-Henry!

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2022/05/28

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

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01:12:04

524: Yeoh Jo-Ann!

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2022/05/21

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.

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01:06:56

523: Aaron Angello!

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2022/05/14

In 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.

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01:07:21

522: Ann Hood!

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2022/05/08

In 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.

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01:12:40

521: Nita Noveno!

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2022/04/30

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.

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01:15:26

520: A Discussion of Anne Sexton with Rachael Tillman!

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2022/04/24

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

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519: Marisa Siegel!

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2022/04/16

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.

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01:02:21

518: Vidhu Aggarwal!

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2022/04/09

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.

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517: Kimberly Ann Priest

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2022/04/02

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.

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01:44:11

516: A Discussion of Sally Rooney's Novels, with...

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2022/03/26

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

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515: Sara Manning Peskin!

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2022/03/19

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

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01:07:33

514: Laura Costas!

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2022/03/12

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.

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513: Jane-Rebecca Cannarella!

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2022/03/05

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

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01:22:31

512: Lan Samantha Chang!

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2022/02/26

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.

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