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

In this week’s episode, I interview fiction writer Cate McGowan, plus Shawn McKee reads his piece, "Job Letter." & Racquel Henry discusses her experience with NANO-WRIMO.TEXTS DISCUSSED True Places Never Are Short Stories" target="_blank"> NOTES

In this week’s episode, I interview memoir writer J. C. Sevcik, plus Nancy Caronia readers her personal essay, Postmortem. TEXTS DISCUSSED Read some of J. C. Sevcik's essays here, here, and here. Brain-dead Megaphone" target="_blank"> Against Football" target="_blank"> NOTES Miami Book Fair is coming up: November 15-22. TDO is now on Instagram.

This week is a live show for Horror Movie Poetry Night 2, starring The Drunken Odyssey All Stars, brought to you several days early for your Halloweening pleasure. Photos by Racquel Henry. On this occasion, The Drunken Odyssey All-Stars included: Tom Lucas (The Mouth of Madness) Teege Braune (The Creature from the Black Lagoon) Anna King (House of 1,000 Corpses/The Devil's Rejects) Mark Purcell (Rosemary’s Baby) Genevieve Anna Tyrrell (The Exorcism of Emily Rose) Vincent Crampton Satan Susan Fallows (Carrie) Special thanks to Writer's Atelier for granting us a venue! If you live in Orlando, check out WA's website here for information about its workshops and events.

In this week’s episode, I interview bizarro fiction writer Tom Lucas, plus Dallas Woodburn writes about how reading Aimee Bender'’s The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake changed her life. TEXTS DISCUSSED Pax Titanus" target="_blank"> NOTES The Drunken Odyssey: A Podcast About the Writing Life presents another evening of verse inspired by that most poetic of film genres: horror! Featuring Mark Purcell Teege Braune Anna King Vincent Crampton Genevieve Anna Tyrrell Tom Lucas Susan Fallows & your host, John King. Absinthe ceremony to follow? October 28, 2015 Writer's Atelier (336 Grove Avenue, Winter Park, FL) See facebook event page here.

In this week’s episode, I share a recording of a Halloween show in Jesse Bradley’s prose reading series, There Will Be Words, in which I was a reader. Besides moi, the show featured Raymond McKee Will Garland Danita Berg J. C. Sevcik Peg Martin Catherine Carson, and Tom Lucas. JC Sevcik (Photo by Patrick Greene) NOTES Check out Michael Hearst's new album, Film Music and Other Scores, Vol. 1.

In this week’s episode, I interview my occasional co-host Vanessa Blakeslee about her new novel, Juventud, Photo by Ashley Inguanta. plus James Stewart III writes about how reading David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest changed his life. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Come see Vanessa on book tour, including her upcoming appearance on October 18th in the Sunday Salon series with Orlando Ferrand, Anu Jindal, and Asali Solomon. The reading starts at 7 P.M. at Jimmy's #43 at 43 E 7th Street, NY, NY. Svetlana Alexievich has won the Nobel Prize in Literature.Elvis, the king cobra who has roamed Orlando for the last 5 weeks, has been found. In turns out, Publix Supermarkets don't recycle human skulls.

In this week’s episode, we have a roundtable discussion of Edgar Allen Poe. Present for this discussion were Jared Silvia, Shawn Whittington, Dianne Turgeon Richardson, Matt Peters, and Teege Braune, Jared, put THAT damned knife away. So you're saying my thesis isn't solid? Really? NOTES Check out the sweet swag in The Drunken Odyssey‘s fundraiser here. Check out these Burrow Press events. Literary Death Match will be judged by Billy Collins. Saturday October 3rd | Functionally Literate Presents: PADGETT POWELL | REBECCA EVANHOE | BETH McKEE Lowndes Shakespeare Center | 812 E. Rollins Street 7pm | FREE | No ticket necessary. Wednesday October 7th | Literary Death Match Presents: ERICA DAWSON | DAVID JAMES POISSANT KRISTIN HARMEL | KRISTEN ARNETT Mad Cow Theatre | 54 W. Church Street, 2nd Floor Doors at 7pm | Show at 8pm $12 pre-sale | $15 at the door.

In this week’s episode, I talk to chronicler of the rambling life, Michele Roldán Shaw, Photo by Pressly Hall Giltner Photography. plus Nancy Caronia reads her essay, "Deserving Angels." NOTES Check out the sweet swag in The Drunken Odyssey's fundraiser here. Check out these Burrow Press events. Literary Death Match will be judged by Billy Collins. Saturday October 3rd | Functionally Literate Presents: PADGETT POWELL | REBECCA EVANHOE | BETH McKEE Lowndes Shakespeare Center | 812 E. Rollins Street 7pm | FREE | No ticket necessary. Wednesday October 7th | Literary Death Match Presents: ERICA DAWSON | DAVID JAMES POISSANT KRISTIN HARMEL | KRISTEN ARNETT Mad Cow Theatre | 54 W. Church Street, 2nd Floor Doors at 7pm | Show at 8pm $12 pre-sale | $15 at the door.

In this week’s episode, I talk about Jorge Luis Borges's This Craft of Verse with Vanessa Blakeslee, Photo by Ashley Inguanta. plus Jared Silvia performs Peter Seger's "Hobo's Lullaby." TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Check out the great perks for The Drunken Odyssey’s fundraiser here. Gator finger puppets not included.

In this week’s episode, I talk to prose writer and educator, Danita Berg, plus Catherine Carson reads her poem, "Reverse Evolution, or Sex in the Environment." TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES If you live in Orlando, check out Meg Sefton’s upcoming workshop on the fundamentals of flash fiction here. It will take place on September 27, 2015. Check out the great perks (such as TDO T-shirts) for The Drunken Odyssey’s fundraiser here. You are allowed to wear the shirt without taping your eyes shut ... technically. To read about the feminism panel at the Decatur Book Festival, read the Guardian article here, or the Electric Literature account here. To read about the Michael Derrick Hudson/Best American Poetry 2015 controversy, read Sherman Alexie's explanation here, Rich Smith's smart take over at The Stranger, or The Washington Post's reportage here. In NYC, to attend the book launch event for Best American Poetry 2015, go here.