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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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01:15:26

520: A Discussion of Anne Sexton with Rachael Tillman!

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

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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57:36

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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58:27

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...

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

2022/03/26

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

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50:32

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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55:59

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!

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

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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01:02:10

511: David A. Bossert!

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2022/02/19

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01:14:50

510: Drew Barth Redux

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

2022/02/12

On today’s show, I talk to TDO's comic book blogger Drew Barth to discuss Walt Simonson's astounding mythical, iconoclastic run on Thorback in the 1980s.

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59:49

509: Sandra Lim!

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

2022/02/05

Sandra Lim talks about optimism, editing through the pile of a poem, letting oneself go in the current of the stream, and finding a grounding in the abstractions of mind and word.

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01:19:56

508: Laura Blackett & Eve Gleichmann

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2022/01/29

On today’s show, co-novelists Laura Blackett and Eve Gleichman talk about corporate cults, collaborative writing, and satire.

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01:07:09

507: Sonya Huber

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

2022/01/22

Memoirist Sonya Huber discusses how to write the way that we think, including the semiotic leapfrogs of memory, and trying to depict the precarious balance of reality.

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55:40

506: Shruti Swarmy!

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2022/01/15

On #506, Shruti Swarmy talks about calling the reader into a complete, already alive imaginary world, and writing about dance in ways that transcend rational, orderly prose.

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01:13:03

505: Brian Broome!

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2022/01/08

On today’s show, I speak with the memoirist Brian Broome, winner of the 2021 Kirkus Prize for nonfiction. Photo by Annie O'Neill TEXT DISCUSSED

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55:26

504: Zaina Arafat!

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

2022/01/01

On today’s show, I speak with fiction writer Zaina Arafat about love, identity, sarcasm, and their complications for storytelling.

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49:40

503: 3 Poets on Geography, Intimacy, and Dislocation

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2021/12/25

Raymond Antrobus, Carlie Hoffman, and Tiana Nobile read & discuss their poetry in this 2021 Miami Book Fair event.

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01:14:01

502: David Morgan O'Connor!

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2021/12/19

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47:44

501: Sandra M. Gilbert & Susan Gubar!

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

2021/12/11

On today’s show, legendary scholars Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar discuss the history of feminism and women's studies, and the turns of current events that make activism more necessary than ever.

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