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

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.

In this week’s episode, I talk to fiction writer J. R. Miller, plus C.T. McMillan writes about the unsettling moral complexities of Untold Tales of the Punisher Max. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Check out the great perks for The Drunken Odyssey’s fundraiser here. 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. The Dinty Moore piece referenced in our interview was his essay, Son of Mr. Green Jeans: An Essay on Fatherhood, Alphabetically Arranged. I finally saw this, and it was good. Great, actually.

Check out the great perks for The Drunken Odyssey’s fundraiser here. In this week’s episode, I talk to the poet and novelist Eleanor Lerman, plus Nancy Caronia reads her essay, "Quiet." TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Check out the great perks for The Drunken Odyssey’s fundraiser here. Check out Meg Sefton’s upcoming workshop on the fundamentals of flash fiction here. To read about Kate Gale’s controversial piece about AWP’s diversity issues, check out this LA Times story. To read her apology, go to her personal blog.

In this week’s episode, I share a recording of a fan fiction installment of Jesse Bradley’s prose reading series, There Will Be Words. The There Will Be Fan Fiction featured Teege Braune Jared Silvia Stephanie Rizzo Genevieve Anna Tyrrell and moi. NOTES Check out the great perks for The Drunken Odyssey’s fundraiser here. Check out There Will Be Words.