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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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727: Schloctoberfest 2026 #2: A Discussion of...

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2026/10/10

On this week's show, Jeff Shuster and I discuss two zeitgeist-defining 1954 horror films, Creature from the Black Lagoons and Godzilla.

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01:04:58

726: Schloctoberfest 2026 #1: A Discussion of The...

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2026/10/03

On this week's show, Jeff Shuster and I discuss two zeitgeist-defining 1953 science fiction films, The War of the Worldsand Robot Monster.

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56:42

725: Melissa Crowe

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2026/09/26

In this week's episode, John speaks with Melissa Crowe about her latest collection of poetry, Abider, now out with The University of Pittsburgh Press. For excellent tattoos in the Orlando area, check out The Tattooed Society.

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01:00:13

724: Kathy Fagan!

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2026/09/19

In this week's show, John speaks with Kathy Fagan about bathos, pop culture, and of course mortality. Her newest poetry volume, The Unbecoming, becomes on Tuesday September 22nd.

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52:13

723: A Kerouac Project of Orlando Book Club...

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2026/09/12

In this week's episode, John and Alex Gurtis dive deeper into Gregory Corso's poetry as part of The Kerouac Project of Orlando Book Club.

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55:17

722: Barbara Hamby!

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2026/09/05

This week, John interviews the poet Barbara Hamby about her new collection of odes, Burn, now out with The University of Pisttsburgh Press.

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01:46:49

721: A Secret DVD Commentary for Stephen King's...

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

2026/07/26

In this week's episode, John King and Chad Coup discuss all of Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive, DVD Commentary style. This is a secret, so don't tell anyone.

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01:25:42

720: A Discussion of Sylvia Plath's Ariel with...

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2026/07/18

In this week's episode, John King and Rachael McKee embark on a fourth installment of Sylvia Plathery to discuss the restored edition of Ariel and Other Poems.

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57:14

719: A Conversation about Tobe Hooper's Lifeforce...

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2026/07/11

A conversation many years in the making, John King and Shawn McKee reckon with the genre-bending oddity that is Tobe Hooper's Lifeforce (1985).

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01:03:31

718: Gilbert King, Plus Laura Lee Baher and Erik...

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2026/07/04

In this week's episode, John interviews the Pulitzer Prize-wining justice journalist and researcher Gilbert King, plus TDO proudly shares a dual book-launch event for Laura Lee Bahr and Erik Deckers.

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59:38

717: Bob Spitz!

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2026/06/27

In this week's episode, John interviews music journalist and biographer Bob Spitz about the massive sixty-year career of The Rolling Stones, how the music moves us, and the process of creating a good book with a tidal wave's amount of material to cover.

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01:12:20

716: The Kerouac Project of Orlando Book Club...

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

2026/06/20

On this show, John and Matt Peters continue The Kerouac Project Book Club with a discussion of William S. Burrough's Naked Lunch.

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58:57

715: Henry Hughes!

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2026/06/13

In this week's episode, John speaks with the poet Henry Hughes about poetry, fishing, patience, creativity, Charles Bukowski, and other matters of literary interest.

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59:12

714: Lara Egger!

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2026/06/06

In this week's episode, John speaks with the poet Lara Egger about her new book, Flop Era. Other topics covered: the jostling of syntax, the long learning curve of becoming a writer, and how constraints point us towards problem-solving that allows authenticity to bleed through our work.

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56:45

713: Dave Housley!

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2026/04/25

In this week's episode, John speaks with fiction writer and editor Dave Housley about the joys of using writing prompts, the problem-solving of writing meaningfully improbable stories inspired by pop culture, and the limits of post-modern irony. His newest books is Aliens Attack!, now out with Mason Jar Press.

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01:11:52

Episode 712: A Discussion of Sylvia Plath's The Bell...

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2026/04/18

In this week's show, Rachael Tillman and I discuss The Bell Jar, in part 3 of our series on Sylvia Plath. If you are keen, check out the previous installments: episodes 685 (The Colossus and Other Poems) and 693 (Emily Van Duyne's Loving Sylvia Plath).

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711: A Discussion of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World,...

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2026/04/11

Sophia Ferrara returns to the secret HQ of TDO to chat about the pleasure-filled dystopia of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, while John freaks out about the novel's structure or lack thereof.

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56:36

710: A Discussion of William Harrison's Rollerball...

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2026/04/04

In #710, Sophia Ferrara returns to the secret HQ of TDO to chat about the dystopia of Rollerball, as imagined in the film and the short story, which was called "Roller Ball Murder." Jonathan E and his pal Moonpie turn out to be a threat to The Corporation while thriving in a technocratic bloodsport. Good times.

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01:05:11

709: Philip Schultz!

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2026/03/28

In this week's show, John speaks with the poet Philip Schultz about his wonderful new poetry collection, Enormous Morning. We discuss the self-critical voices that Philip calls the shit-bird, how personas can empower us to become more of ourselves, and the ironies of finding gratitude in our depression in observing how the world tears itself apart.

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57:22

708: Felicia Day!

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2026/03/21

In this week's show, John speaks with the writer and actor, Felicia Day about her extraordinary page-turner of a graphic novel, The Lost Daughter of Sparta. We discuss how to regulate our bodies as writers, how rich the literature of ancient myth absolutely still is, and how to read for audiobooks, since she has a wealth of acting experience and John doesn't.

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