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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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672: Dan Reiter Event!

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

2025/05/17

Dan Reiter reads from his new book, On a Rising Swell: Surf Stories from the Space Coast, with the jazz piano accompaniment of Daniel Tenbusch, touching the bohemian spirit of Jack Kerouac, who wrote the first draft of The Darma Bums at that very venue. John and Dan share notes about the writing life, the freedom of constraints, the careers of Joan Didion, Jack Kerouac, and Hunter S. Thompson, and physical transcendence—with the occasional contribution from Dr. Truth.

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01:26:43

671: Dmetri Kakmi!

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

2025/05/10

On this show, John speaks with Dmetri Kakmi about holding onto the mysteries of storytelling, the setting of Australia, the wild problem of self, and his wonderful new novel, The Woman in the Well.

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01:22:40

670: A Discussion of the Ewoks Trilogy, with Jeff...

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

2025/05/04

After taking a year off to recover, Jeff Shuster return again for a May the 4th episode of The Drunken Odyssey, in which we discuss the seldom-discussed Ewoks trilogy. As a result, we might never have another May the 4th conversation. But the conversation was lively.

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01:03:31

669: Shelley Fisher Fishkin

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

2025/04/27

On this show, John speaks with the literary scholar, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, who writes lucidly about classic American fiction in readable, important, and enjoyable prose. One of Dr. Fishkin's areas of expertise is Mark Twain. Her new book is Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn's Comrade.

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01:04:40

Replay Episode: Tessa Mellas (Episode 70, from 2013)

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

2025/04/19

While John attempts his convalence from his contempible cold, here is a replay of a classic episode from 2013 with the fiction writer Tessa Mellas.

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01:05:31

668: Margie Sarsfield

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

2025/04/12

In Margie Sarsfield’s debut novel, Beta Vulgaris, a hipster Brooklyn couple take on temporary work at a Minnesota beet farm at harvest time in order to earn extra money to help them maintain their Brooklyn lifestyle. Elise, the protagonist, who suffers from anxiety that she is no longer medicated for, notices that her fellow workers disappear, either because the work is too difficult or else other mysterious reasons. Elise’s experience becomes more anguishing when her boyfriend also disappears, and

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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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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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