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

Episode 196 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I interview the actor Joe Vincent, Plus John McMahon writes about how Moby Dick changed his life. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Check out Orlando Shakespeare Theater's current offerings, and use the discount code mentioned at the beginning of this week's episode. See my reviews of OST's Tempest and Pericles. Check out C.T. McMillan's blog, McMillan's Codex. Check out Lisa Marten's blog, On Top of It. I am so proud to share this wonderful Kerouac House/Burrow Press event from last month, My Queer Valentine, starring Ashley Inguanta, Claire Robin Thorne, Amber Norman, and Sarah Viren. Episode 196 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

In this week’s episode, I interview the creative nonfiction writer Sarah Viren, Plus Amy Oestreicher writes about a book that changed her life. TEXTS DISCUSSED Sarah Viren's My Murderer's Futon. Sarah Viren's How to Unmarry Your Wife. Courage to Heal 4th Edition A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse 20th Anniversary Edition" target="_blank"> NOTES Learn more about Sarah Viren here. Learn more about Amy Oestreicher, including upcoming dates of her one-woman show, Gutless and Grateful, here.

In this week’s episode, I interview the poet J. Scott Brownlee, plus Dan Lauer reads his memoir essay, "Helen of Troy." TEXTS DISCUSSED Requiem%20for Used Ignition Cap (The Orison Poetry Prize)" target="_blank"> Sex Drugs & Cocoa Puffs A Low Culture Manifesto" target="_blank"> Break Every Rule: Essays on Language, Longing, and Moments of Desire" target="_blank">

In this week’s episode, I interview fiction writer Mary Gaitskill, and share her reading from Miami Book Fair International, plus Beverly Army Williams and I discuss Mary Gaitskill's new novel, The Mare. TEXTS DISCUSSED The Mare" target="_blank" rel="attachment wp-att-11673"> Veronica" target="_blank" rel="attachment wp-att-11672">NOTES Check out Beverly Army Williams's site, Mothershould. Get tickets for Litlando here. The music used in this show was by Michael Hearst. "Alprazolam" (Songs for Fearful Flyers) and "Nicht Lustig Fight" (Film Music and Other Scores, Vol. 1) appeared in the opening, and "Theme From Magic Camp" (Film Music and Other Scores, Vol. 1) at the close. Check out his wonderful music. Songs For Fearful Flyers" target="_blank" rel="attachment wp-att-11854">If you live in Orlando, check out Orlando Shakespeare Theater's 2016 production of The Tempest. Greg Thornton (Prospero) & Lisa Wolpe (Antonia) in OST's The Tempest. (Photo by Luke Evans.)

This week features our 4th annual Erotic Poetry Night, featuring Jesse Bradley, Teege Braune, Stephanie Rizzo, Danielle Kessinger, Amy Watkins, David James Poissant, Ashley Inguanta, Sarah Viren, and (ahem) John King.

In this week’s episode, I interview poet Erin Belieu, plus I share the Miami Book Fair International reading she participated in with Carl Phillips, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, and Kevin Young. TEXTS DISCUSSED Slant Six" target="_blank"> Reconnaissance Poems" target="_blank"> Heaven Poems" target="_blank"> Book of Hours" target="_blank"> NOTES Check out my first interview with Erin Belieu back on episode 44, when we talked about VIDA and the count. On Superbowl Sunday, February 7, 7 P.M., The Drunken Odyssey will be Super Balling at Writer’s Atelier. More info is here. Get tickets for Litlando here.

In this week’s episode, I interview Adrian Todd Zuniga, the host of Literary Death Match, plus Heather Whited writes about how Susanna Clark's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Learn More about Literary Death Match here. Get tickets for Litlando here.

In this week’s episode, I talk about Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Poetry as Insurgent Art with Vanessa Blakeslee, Plus Alice Lowe writes about how Virginia Woolf's A Writer's Diary changed her life. TEXTS DISCUSSED Poetry As Insurgent Art"> Coney Island Of The Mind" target="_blank"> Writers Diary Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf" target="_blank"> NOTES Coney Island was much more interesting in 1907 than it turned out to be in 2007 when I visited. The line for food was onerous. And no funnel cake. His philtrum is a bit too feline for someone serving food. This was not as much fun as it looked. This ride was, disappointingly, all facade. It covered half-a-ring at most, with mostly tetanus to frighten you with. Parachute Literary Arts managed a much better poetic experience at Coney Island. Wonder Wheel, photographed by Jim McDonnell. Amanda Deutch hosting the night of poetry in and on The Wonder Wheel. Emcee and Coney Island Hysterical Society co-founder (on the left, outside the car) Richard Eagan. Julie Ezelle Patton. Wanda Phipps reading. _____ Episode 189 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

In this week’s episode, I interview memoir writer J.J. Anselmi, Plus Patty Hawkins eulogizes David Bowie. TEXTS DISCUSSED Heavy" target="_blank">Low" target="_blank" rel="attachment wp-att-10773">NOTES Check out Drew Perlmutter's kickstarter campaign for his upcoming documentary, US Highway 98: The Florida I Never Knew. He was my cinematographer for The Drunken Odyssey's first documentary, The Weeki Wachee Spectacular. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7Cg6lFnfl4 Patty Hawkin's recommends Bowie's Jazzin for Blue Jean. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXvAaNcXNzI

In this week’s episode, I interview fiction writer Kelly Link, Plus I share the reading she participated in, "Short Stories, Tall Tales," also featuring Adam Johnson and Padgett Powell. TEXTS DISCUSSED Get in Trouble: Stories" target="_blank" rel="attachment wp-att-10669">NOTES Get in Trouble: Stories" target="_blank"> A Quaker high school in Philadelphia has removed Huckleberry Finn from its curriculum. Mein Kampf will be published in Germany for the first time in 70 years. Neil Gaiman straightened out an impatient George R. R. Martin fan back in 2009, which is perhaps why fans are being nicer to Martin right now, after he missed a deadline for the latest installment of A Song of Ice and Fire.