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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Jan 11, 2025 • 1h 49min
656: Fire by Fire by Fire with Dianne Turgeon Richardson and Tod Caviness!
John convenes with Loose Lips hosts Dianne Turgeon Richardson for a poetry game in which three friends draw themed cards and read original poems somehow connected to those themes. Alcohol was consumed, too.
Jan 4, 2025 • 1h 21min
655: Steve Chang!
On this week's show, John talks to recent Kerouac Project resident Steve Chang about writing humor with vulnerability, complicating the absurdity of the world through grounded fiction, editing fiction for Okay, Donkey, and other literary urgencies.
Dec 28, 2024 • 1h 2min
654: David Kirby, Traci Brimhall, & Robert Pinsky
This week’s show collects three interviews with poets David Kirby, Traci Brimhall, and Robert Pinsky in joyful, fun conversations conducted last November at Miami Book Fair.
Dec 21, 2024 • 46min
653: Dobby Gibson, interviewed by Chrissy Kolaya!
On this week’s show Chrissy Kolaya talks to Dobby Gibson about his latest poetry volume, Hold Everything, now out with Graywolf Press.
Dec 14, 2024 • 59min
652: Jonathan Lethem!
In this week’s show, John speaks with Jonathan Lethem about the pull of Brooklyn and obsession, the craft of guiding the reader through unusual storytelling, and bold balancing acts as storytellers.
Dec 7, 2024 • 1h 27min
651: The Drunken Odyssey Takes Over Loose Lips for December 2024!
This episode features a Drunken Odyssey takeover of Orlando's longest-running, and also only, current-events inspired reading series.
Nov 30, 2024 • 56min
650: C. Michelle Lindley!
In this week’s show, John speaks with debut novelist C. Michelle Lindley's, whose The Nude is a page-turning literary meditation on the madness of the commerce of art and labor and relationships and all sorts of things.
Nov 23, 2024 • 57min
649: Ezza Ahmed!
On #649, John speaks with recent writer-in-residence at the Kerouac Project of Orlando, the poet Ezza Ahmed.
Nov 16, 2024 • 46min
648: Yuval Sharon!
In this week's show, John talks to opera director Yuval Sharon about the past and perhaps future rebirths of opera, while advocating for the relevance of this provocative art form. Yuval's new book, A New Philosophy of Opera, is lucid, persuasive, passionate, and fun.
Nov 10, 2024 • 48min
647: Billy Collins!
On this week’s show, John King talks to the two-time former poet laureate Billy Collins about his latest collection, Water, Water, and how, if the window doesn't open up for the composition of poetry, once should strive to find a trampoline in the woods, and how one can learn from the poetic breakers of decorum.
