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
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Apr 9, 2022 • 1h 2min
518: Vidhu Aggarwal!
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.
Apr 2, 2022 • 58min
517: Kimberly Ann Priest
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.
Mar 26, 2022 • 1h 44min
516: A Discussion of Sally Rooney's Novels, with Rachael Tillman!
On #516 Rachel Tillman and I discuss the novels of Sally Rooney.
Mar 19, 2022 • 51min
515: Sara Manning Peskin!
On #515, I talk to Sara Manning Peskin about the history of the mysteries and discoveries of medical science.
Mar 12, 2022 • 1h 8min
514: Laura Costas!
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.
Mar 5, 2022 • 56min
513: Jane-Rebecca Cannarella!
In #513, I talk to Jane-Rebecca Cannarella about genre bending & blending, illustrating literature, and the dialectics of Disney's The Little Mermaid.
Feb 26, 2022 • 1h 23min
512: Lan Samantha Chang!
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.
Feb 19, 2022 • 1h 2min
511: David A. Bossert!
Feb 12, 2022 • 1h 15min
510: Drew Barth Redux
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.
Feb 5, 2022 • 60min
509: Sandra Lim!
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.
