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

John King
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Jan 29, 2022 • 1h 20min

508: Laura Blackett & Eve Gleichmann

On today's show, co-novelists Laura Blackett and Eve Gleichman talk about corporate cults, collaborative writing, and satire.
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Jan 22, 2022 • 1h 7min

507: Sonya Huber

Memoirist Sonya Huber discusses how to write the way that we think, including the semiotic leapfrogs of memory, and trying to depict the precarious balance of reality.
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Jan 15, 2022 • 56min

506: Shruti Swarmy!

On #506, Shruti Swarmy talks about calling the reader into a complete, already alive imaginary world, and writing about dance in ways that transcend rational, orderly prose.
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Jan 8, 2022 • 1h 13min

505: Brian Broome!

On today's show, I speak with the memoirist Brian Broome, winner of the 2021 Kirkus Prize for nonfiction. Photo by Annie O'Neill TEXT DISCUSSED
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Jan 1, 2022 • 55min

504: Zaina Arafat!

On today's show, I speak with fiction writer Zaina Arafat about love, identity, sarcasm, and their complications for storytelling.
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Dec 25, 2021 • 50min

503: 3 Poets on Geography, Intimacy, and Dislocation

Raymond Antrobus, Carlie Hoffman, and Tiana Nobile read & discuss their poetry in this 2021 Miami Book Fair event.
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Dec 19, 2021 • 1h 14min

502: David Morgan O'Connor!

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Dec 11, 2021 • 48min

501: Sandra M. Gilbert & Susan Gubar!

On today's show, legendary scholars Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar discuss the history of feminism and women's studies, and the turns of current events that make activism more necessary than ever.
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Dec 5, 2021 • 56min

500: Paul Auster!

On today's show, I discuss the power of Stephen Crane with novelist Paul Auster. Photo by by Spencer Ostrander.[/caption]
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Nov 27, 2021 • 1h 4min

499: Saïd Sayrafiezadeh!

Back from the dead, I discuss Beckett, Kafka, wry sardonic world-weariness, & other matters of interest with fiction writer & memoirist Saïd Sayrafiezadeh.

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