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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Dec 5, 2020 • 1h 26min
449: A Very German Christmas Discussion
In this week's episode, I talk with Vanessa Blakeslee about the excellent new anthology, A Very German Christmas, from New Vessel Press. TEXT DISCUSSED
Nov 29, 2020 • 53min
448: Peniel E. Joseph
On #448, Dr. Peniel E. Joseph and I discuss the careers of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcom X, and how examining them together reveals the complexities of both of their evolving understandings of American history and politics.
Nov 21, 2020 • 50min
447: Candacy Taylor!
Candacy Taylor and I discuss her new book, Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America. We talk about how research can transform a project, and how our understanding of our family's histories give us windows into understanding our nation's history, including our own precarious, sometimes alarming moment in it. We also discuss how instrumental color-coded index cards can help us balance the complex work of presenting the long threads of history.
Nov 14, 2020 • 49min
446: Phil Klay!
The fiction writer and veteran Phil Klay and I discuss finding the right form for a novel, war literature, the uplift of humor, and winning the National Book Award.
Nov 7, 2020 • 54min
445: A Discussion of The Selected Works of Audre Lorde, with Audi Barnes!
On this week's show, poet and scholar Audi Barnes and I discuss the essays and poetry of Audre Lorde.
Oct 31, 2020 • 1h 34min
444: TDO vs. The Curator of Schlock #4 (with Jeff Shuster)
On this week's show, Jeff Shuster and I discuss Jordan Peele's Us, and a lot of other things, too.
Oct 24, 2020 • 1h 45min
443: TDO vs. The Curator of Schlock #3 (with Jeff Shuster)
On this week's show, Jeff Shuster and I discuss Richard Stanley's recent film of H.P. Lovecraft's The Color Out of Space.
Oct 18, 2020 • 1h 44min
442: TDO vs. The Curator of Schlock #2 (with Jeff Shuster)
Photo by Leslie Salas.[/caption] On this week's show, Jeff Shuster and I discuss the genius of Richard Brake, the superior sound design of Rob Zombie's films, the paradoxes of carnie victimhood, the nightmare underbelly of The Great Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution, mere survival as an inadequate story-goal, likable characters, all while talking about Rob Zombie's overlooked brutal 2016 masterpiece, 31. TEXT DISCUSSED
Oct 10, 2020 • 1h 29min
441: TDO vs. The Curator of Schlock #1 (with Jeff Shuster)
On this week's show, I talk with Jeff Shuster about Cosmos Panatos's 2018 classic horror film, Mandy, as part 1 of our series of discussions on horror films of the last decade.
Oct 3, 2020 • 1h 6min
440: Dmetri Kakmi!
Photo by Jon Rendell. On this week's show, I talk to Dmetri Kakmi about existentialism in horror, the performance of identity, the structure of memoir, and many other things.
