

The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
John King
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 interviews, writers discuss their process and the way that writing has influenced their lives. Besides this interview, each episode also features a short memoir essay from a writer about a beloved book, plus John King responds to listener's questions and observations about the writing (and the drinking) life.
For more information, see our website at www.thedrunkenodyssey.com.
For more information, see our website at www.thedrunkenodyssey.com.
Episodes
Mentioned books

Oct 29, 2022 • 1h 18min
548: TDO vs. The Curator of Schlock #13 (Body Bags)
Jeff Shuster & John King discuss the 1993 anthology horror film, Body Bags, starring an excitable John Carpenter.

Oct 23, 2022 • 1h 20min
547: TDO vs. The Curator of Schlock #12 (Dead Alive)
On this week's show, Jeff Shuster and I discuss the 1992 Peter Jackson masterpiece of a family drama, Dead Alive.

Oct 16, 2022 • 1h 2min
546: TDO vs. The Curator of Schlock #11 (Delicatessen)
On #546, Jeff Shuster and I discuss the strange 1991 masterpiece from France that is Delicatessen.

Oct 8, 2022 • 1h 17min
545: TDO vs. The Curator of Schlock #10 (Nightbreed)
On this week's show, Jeff Shuster and I discuss the belated masterpiece that is the director's cut of Clive Barker's Nightbreed.

Oct 4, 2022 • 58min
544: Ryan Rivas!
This week, I speak with my friend and colleague Ryan Rivas about his exciting, new, experimental memoir, Nextdoor in Colonialtown.

Oct 1, 2022 • 1h
543: Q&A Time!
This week, my colleagues Christopher Odom, Bethany Duvall, Jared Silvia, and I sling writing advice from Full Sail University's Fifth Annual Creative Writing Conference.

Sep 24, 2022 • 57min
542: Azar Nafisi!

Sep 19, 2022 • 58min
541: Marie Myung-Ok Lee!
This week, Samantha Nickerson speaks with novelist Marie Myung-Ok Lee about the musicality of novel-writing, and discovering the shape a novel requires despite one's intentions.

Sep 10, 2022 • 1h 10min
540: Mark Braude!
This week, I talk with historian and biographer Mark Braude about artist, model, and cabaret singer Kiki Man Ray and the art life in Paris in the 1920s.

Sep 3, 2022 • 1h 3min
539: Chelsey Clammer!
This week, I catch up with longtime friend of the show, the brilliant creative nonfiction writer, Chelsey Clammer.


