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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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282: Loose Lips October 2017!

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2017/10/14

Episode 282 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 share a recording of Loose Lips, the monthly current events literary thing hosted by the inestimable Tod Caviness, with special guests Erik Deckers, Whitney Hamrick, Joe Snyder, Mary McGinn, and moi. NOTES Join us on October 21st at Vinyl Arts Bar in Orlando! Read Ta-Nehisi Coates's The First White President. Episode

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281: A Craft Discussion of Colum McCann's Letters to...

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2017/10/07

In this week’s episode, I talk with Vanessa Blakeslee about Colum McCann's Letters to a Young Writer. Books Discussed NOTES Colum McCann hosts a lovely Bloomsday reading every year at Ulysses Folk House in downtown Manhattan. Check out my interview with the late Charlie Bethel, an amazing playwright and performer, back on episode 39.

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01:08:53

280: Mailbag 9 (with David James Poissant)

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2017/09/30

Episode 280 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s show, David James Poissant and I offer words of advice for 12 new writers and their questions. I probably swear more than I should in a classroom. NOTES Read Ta-Nehisi Coates' "The First White President." Check out Orlando Shakespeare's production of Man of La Mancha. Congrats to the finalists for Poet Laureate of Orlando: Curtis

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279: Leslie Salas!

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2017/09/23

On this week’s show, I talk editing and publishing and writing and the post-MFA malaise with Leslie Salas. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Leslie Salas currently blogs for The Gloria Sirens, and is an editor at Sweet.

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278: Brittany Perham!

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2017/09/16

On this week’s show, I talk poetry with Brittany Perham! NOTES Check out my interview with Brittany Perham's chapbook collaborator, Kim Addonizio. RIP, Jerry Pournelle and J. P. Donleavy.

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277: Jaimal Yogis!

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2017/09/09

On this week’s show, I have a fun conversation with the journalist, surfer, and Buddhist Jaimal Yogis about the provisionality of our knowledge, philosophy, zen, surfing, writing, avoiding preciousness, and the lunacy of the ego. NOTES Please consider donating to The Drunken Odyssey’s indiegogo fundraiser here.

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276: Tina Giannoukos!

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2017/09/02

Episode 276 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s show, I speak with the poet Tina Giannoukos about the glorious visibility and flexibility of sonnets, plus Sabrina Napolitano writes about how reading Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay changed her life. Notes Consider donating to The Drunken Odyssey’s indiegogo fundraiser here. Go here for details on the

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01:54:38

275: A Craft Discussion of Rilke's Letters to a Young...

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2017/08/26

In this week’s episode, I talk with Vanessa Blakeslee about Rainer Maria Rilke's famous Letters to a Young Poet, plus we pay homage to Rilke's poetry with readings by Craig Moreau, Hyejung Kook, David Foley, Jason Morris, David Mcloughlin, and Amy Hosig.

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274: Memoir Panel with Lisa Roney and Kristen Arnett

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2017/08/19

Kristen Arnett & Lisa Roney at Litlando 2017, at The Gallery at Avalon Island. NOTES Consider donating to The Drunken Odyssey's indiegogo fundraiser here. Learn more about the nonprofit Page 15 here. Follow Kristen Arnett on twitter here, or check out her website. Check out The Florida Review here. Go here for details on the 60th anniversary party for On the Road at the Kerouac House. Go here for details about Functionally Literate's next event with SJ Sindu and Kristen Arnett on September 23rd at

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273: Jason Croft!

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2017/08/12

On this week’s show, I catch up with Jason Croft about the continuing evolution of pin up and burly-q culture, Bunny Yeager's legacy, the awesomeness of Medusirena, writing for pulp magazines, the joys and struggles of editorship, and the 10th anniversary of Bachelor Pad Magazine, where some of my work has been published. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES If you can contribute to my indiegogo fundraiser, please go here. On Sunday, August 13th at 3 PM, join me and the other authors of Other Orlandos to

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272: Henry Hughes!

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2017/08/05

On this week’s show, I talk to the poet and memoirist Henry Hughes about how to get over rejection, poetry, the freedom of ekphrastic work, memoirs, and fishing, Plus Todd Boss reads his poem, "One of the Joys of Dry Fly Fishing."

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271: Mixtape #9 (Summer Overtime Blues)

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2017/07/29

In this week’s episode, I curate more blues music that has sustained me in this summer of working too hard.

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01:06:58

270: The Slam Summit!

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2017/07/22

In this week’s episode, I talk with Curtis X. Meyer and Caleb Zachary Matthews about the Slam Nationals that Team Orlando will be attending, the upsides and downsides of Slam Poetry, plus they perform their work! Caleb Zachary Matthews, Raquel Henry, John King, and Curtis Meyer. NOTES Help send Sherdes Leona, Caleb Zachary Matthews, Faith Elizabeth, Curtis X. Meyer, & Kira Calvaresi to the Slam Nationals here. On July 28th, I am hosting a reading by Jaimal Yogis at the Kerouac House.

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269: A Craft Discussion of Robert Paul Lamb’s Art...

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2017/07/15

In this week’s episode, I talk with Vanessa Blakeslee about Robert Paul Lamb’s Art Matters: Hemingway, Craft, and the Creation of the Modern Short Story. Five years in, TDO finally devotes a show to Hemingway, and Bob's discussion of Hemingway's craft is profoundly illuminating to how effectively extraordinary Hemingway's aesthetics were. I somehow manage not to tell the story how in my Purdue years, my roommates and I dubbed the more rustic of our two bathrooms as The Ernest Hemingway Memorial

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268: Kathleen Rooney!

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2017/07/08

On this week’s show, I talk to the poet and novelist Kathleen Rooney about the flaneur as geographic narrator of imaginative space, the aesthetic pleasures of walking, writing about New York City, the value of elderly characters, the dramatic provocations of history, and the structure of the novel of memory. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES On June 16th, I am hosting a fundraiser for the S.A.F.E. Words poetry slam at Writer’s Atelier. On July 28th, I am hosting a reading by Jaimal Yogis at the Kerouac

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267: A Discussion of Stanley Elkin's The Magic...

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2017/07/01

On this week’s show, I talk to my friend Nathan Holic, who is an Orlando writer and editor of the 15 Views of Orlando anthology series. While in situ at The Contemporary Resort, we discuss the stressors of theme park-going, the uses of such postmodern settings, and the odd counterbalances of melodrama and dark satire in Stanley Elkin's The Magic Kingdom. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Mary Cottle's room? The equivalent of room 822 now, but perhaps not back in 1986. (No, we didn't knock on the door.) Check

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266: Shasta Grant!

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2017/06/24

On this week’s show, I talk to fiction writer, Shasta Grant, the Kerouac House resident from the spring of 2017. NOTES Shasta's chapbook is now available from Split Lip Press. On June 16th, I am hosting a fundraiser for the S.A.F.E. Words poetry slam at Writer's Atelier. On July 28th, I am hosting a reading by Jaimal Yogis at the Kerouac House.

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265: Todd Boss!

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2017/06/17

On this week’s show, I talk to Todd Boss, whose new book, Tough Luck, includes a poem sequence inspired by the disaster of the I-35W Bridge's collapse in Minneapolis, plus Malcolm Kelly reads his poem, "Visual Vignettes of Some Gay Shit." TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES Check out The Drunken Odyssey's classic Bloomsday show, episode 104. Read Nicole Oquendo's poem, "Binding We," over at The Florida Review.

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264: A Craft Discussion of Jhumpa Lahiri''s In Other...

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2017/06/10

In this week’s episode, I talk with Vanessa Blakeslee about Jhumpa Lahiri’s experiment in becoming an Italian writer, In Other Words.

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263: Missy Barnes, Lena Barker, and Nicholas...

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2017/06/03

On this week's show, I talk to Missy Barnes, Lena Barker, and Nicholas D'Allesandro about their production of Urinetown. NOTES Follow the Annie Russel theatre here. Check out Episode 119 for Sam Slaughter's essay about Denis Johnson.

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