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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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01:02:06

667: Samantha Nickerson interviews Sally Wen Mao and...

The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About... ·

2025/04/05

On this show, correspondent Samantha Nickerson speaks with Sally Wen Mao about her story collection, Ninetails, plus Samantha speaks with Susan Mauddi Darraj about her new novel, Behind You Is The Sea.

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01:34:20

666: A Discussion of David Lynch's Ronnie Rocket,...

The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About... ·

2025/03/29

In honor of the passing of David Lynch, John and Stephen McClurg discuss the peculiar mysteries of a screenplay for a legendary project that was never made, Ronnie Rocket.

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01:15:27

665: Jaydra Johnson!

The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About... ·

2025/03/22

In this week's show, John speaks with Jaydra Johnson about her new book, Low: Notes on Art and Trash, and the tensions and connections between class perception, politics, and creation of art.

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39:00

664: Rigoberto Gonzales & Richard Blanco!

The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About... ·

2025/03/16

On today’s show, I speak with the poet and editor Rigoberto Gonzales about the curation of the Library of America anthology of Latino Poetry. Then Richard Blanco reads "Como Tú," his poem that is collected in that anthology, and he and I catch up a little bit.

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01:04:18

663: A Discussion of Bill Knott's Corpse and Beans,...

The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About... ·

2025/03/08

0On #633, Rachael Tillman and I discuss the surreal paradoxes and sullen joys of Bill Knott's debut collection of poetry, The Naomi Poems: Corpse and Beans, which was recently reprinted by Black Ocean Press.

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01:00:58

662: Rufi Thorpe & Susan Minot (Interviewed by...

The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About... ·

2025/03/01

On today’s episode, Samantha Nickerson speaks with fiction writer Rufi Thorpe about her striking novel Margo's Got Money Problems. In this episode, you learn about more than just Margo's money problems. Samantha and Rufi discuss Only Fans, wrestling, creating characters, and motherhood’s thorny identity. Samantha then speaks to Susan My-Nutt about erotic obsession, alienation, hyper-thinking, and the presentation of dialogue without quotation marks as they appear in her new novel, Don’t Be a

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01:12:07

661: Kathy Fish!

The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About... ·

2025/02/22

In this episode, John interviews the notable flash fiction writer Kathy Fish about the anxious nuances of that medium and genre. Is flash fiction just a very short story, with all the rules of fiction at work? Or is flash fiction a less traditional, immersive fictional happening that takes somewhere between the length of a flash of lightning and the length of time needed to smoke a cigarette? The complicated answer is yes and yes in this delightful conversation recorded at The Kerouac Project of

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660: A Discussion About John D. MacDonald, with...

The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About... ·

2025/02/15

In this episode, John discusses the career of crime novelist John D. MacDonald (1916-1986) in light of a new posthumous short story, “The Accomplice.” In this interview, John speaks with with Andrew Gulli, editor of The Strand Magazineabout the rigors and ethos of editing and publishing and MacDonald’s son and literary executor Maynard about propagating a great writer’s legacy without compromising that writer’s standards despite the lucrative promise of a classic literary character like Travis

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01:02:12

659: Duy Đoàn!

The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About... ·

2025/02/08

In 659, John talks to poet Duy Đoàn about his latest collection, Zombie Vomit Mad Libs, the poetic provocations of horror films, and experimenting with erasure and fragmentation.

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01:20:19

Replay: Episode 99: Kseniya Melnik (2014)!

The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About... ·

2025/02/01

In this week’s replay episode, John talks with fellow classmate, the fiction writer Kseniya Melnik.

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01:06:14

658: Denise Duhamel!

The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About... ·

2025/01/25

In this week's show, John talks to the delightful poet Denise Duhamel about the nuts and bolts of poetry, the construction of themed collections, Barbie, and other matters of literary interest.

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01:14:24

657: Daniel Handler, Griffin Dunne, and Ridley Pearson!

The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About... ·

2025/01/19

This week’s show collects three interviews with prose writers Daniel Handler, Griffin Dunne, and Ridley Pearson in joyful, fun conversations conducted last November at Miami Book Fair.

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01:49:08

656: Fire by Fire by Fire with Dianne Turgeon...

The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About... ·

2025/01/11

John convenes with Loose Lips hosts Dianne Turgeon Richardson for a poetry game in which three friends draw themed cards and read original poems somehow connected to those themes. Alcohol was consumed, too.

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01:20:56

655: Steve Chang!

The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About... ·

2025/01/04

On this week's show, John talks to recent Kerouac Project resident Steve Chang about writing humor with vulnerability, complicating the absurdity of the world through grounded fiction, editing fiction for Okay, Donkey, and other literary urgencies.

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01:02:09

654: David Kirby, Traci Brimhall, & Robert Pinsky

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2024/12/28

This week’s show collects three interviews with poets David Kirby, Traci Brimhall, and Robert Pinsky in joyful, fun conversations conducted last November at Miami Book Fair.

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45:38

653: Dobby Gibson, interviewed by Chrissy Kolaya!

The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About... ·

2024/12/21

On this week’s show Chrissy Kolaya talks to Dobby Gibson about his latest poetry volume, Hold Everything, now out with Graywolf Press.

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58:37

652: Jonathan Lethem!

The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About... ·

2024/12/14

In this week’s show, John speaks with Jonathan Lethem about the pull of Brooklyn and obsession, the craft of guiding the reader through unusual storytelling, and bold balancing acts as storytellers.

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01:27:18

651: The Drunken Odyssey Takes Over Loose Lips for...

The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About... ·

2024/12/07

This episode features a Drunken Odyssey takeover of Orlando's longest-running, and also only, current-events inspired reading series.

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55:59

650: C. Michelle Lindley!

The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About... ·

2024/11/30

In this week’s show, John speaks with debut novelist C. Michelle Lindley's, whose The Nude is a page-turning literary meditation on the madness of the commerce of art and labor and relationships and all sorts of things.

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56:56

649: Ezza Ahmed!

The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About... ·

2024/11/23

On #649, John speaks with recent writer-in-residence at the Kerouac Project of Orlando, the poet Ezza Ahmed.

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