The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life

John King
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Dec 27, 2025 • 1h 9min

697: Todd James Pierce!

Here John speaks with his friend Todd James Pierce about his research process, his work on Disney artist Mary Blair, and Todd's wonderful new book, Making Mary Poppins, now out with Norton.
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Dec 20, 2025 • 54min

Episode 696: The Kerouac Project of Orlando Book Club Discussion of William S. Burroughs's Interzone (with Matt Peters)!

On this show, John and Matt Peters continue The Kerouac Project Book Club with a discussion of William S. Burrough's third fiction manuscript, Interzone, the cliff before one arrives at Naked Lunch.
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Dec 13, 2025 • 1h 8min

695: Loose Lips December 2025!

The Drunken Odyssey commandeered the Loose Lips oratory series during the tidings of yule and whatnot on December 2, 2025. The readers included Fred Lambert, Rachael Tillman and her deadly horsemen Shawn McKee, Samantha Nickerson, and that rapscallion John King.
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Dec 6, 2025 • 1h 6min

694: Anne Waldman!

In this week's show, John interviews the poet Anne Waldman about her extraordinary new work, Mesopotopia.
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Nov 29, 2025 • 1h 13min

693: Emily Van Duyne

Emily Van Duyne discusses her remarkable tome of scholarship on Sylvia Plath, including a literary history of how Plath's legacy has been shaped. Emily also guides Rachael and John's attempts to de-Hughes-ify the available texts.
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Nov 22, 2025 • 1h 53min

692: November 22, 2025 (Fire x Fire x Fire with Dianne Turgeon Richardson and Tod Caviness!)

John concocted a daft poetry game for friends with a body of work substantial enough to withstand randomization of theme and topic 'til our drunken voices and ears escape beyond the hurly-burly of the everyday and enter the ethereal mindscape of friendship. Here is one's nights Fire x Fire x Fire for your listening pleasure, featuring the verses of Dianne Turgeon Richardson and Tod Caviness.
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Nov 16, 2025 • 54min

691: AJ Rodriguez!

On this week's show, John speaks with fiction writer A.J. Rodriguez, the June-July 2025 Kerouac Project of Orlando resident.
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Nov 1, 2025 • 1h 3min

690: Ivonne Lamazares!

On this week's show, John speaks with Ivonne Lamazares about her new novel, The Tilting House.
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Oct 25, 2025 • 59min

689: Schloctoberfest 2025 #4: A Discussion of Night of the Living Dead, with Jeff Shuster

At the end of Schloctoberfest 2025, Jeff Shuster and I discuss the 1968 horror masterpiece Night of the Living Dead because how could we not? Our foray into 1960s black and white films is now ended.
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Oct 18, 2025 • 1h 3min

688: Schloctoberfest 2025 #3: A Discussion of Seconds, with Jeff Shuster

This time around, Jeff Shuster and John discuss John Frankenheimer's thriller Seconds from 1966.

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