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

On this week’s show, I interview my friend, the poet Monica Wendel, who is in residency at The Kerouac House, Photo by Ashley Inguanta plus Chelsey Clammer writes about Marya Hornbacher’s Madness. Texts Discussed Notes Two great Orlando events are coming up this week: 1. On Wednesday, May 22, 7 PM, the fiction writer Colin Winnette will be reading in the sOFT eXPOSURE reading series. Get details here. 2. On Saturday, May 25th, please come to Monica’s farewell reading at The Kerouac House. Get details here. See the Glossary’s Film of David Foster Wallace’s This is Water.

Episode 48 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is here! On this week's show, I interview the fiction writer Dylan Landis plus the poet Eleanor Lerman writes about Leonard Cohen's Spice Box of Earth.

Episode 47 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is now available. This week, it's a great live event! Notes If you live in Central Florida, come to the next event in Jared Sylvia's Functionally Literate series, despite the fact that I am reading there.

Episode 45 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available. This week, I talk to the poet Terry Ann Thaxton, Plus Madison Bernath reviews 360 GLAZED DONUT VODKA! Texts Discussed 360 Vodka Glazed Donut 750ml" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Notes Madison's review of 360 Glazed Donut Vodka first appeared on McSweeney's Internet Tendency. Wikipedia decides that women aren't "American novelists," according to this Times story. I'll be reading with Philip Deaver, Monica Wendel, and Enid Schumer on May 11th at the Timucua Arts White House.

On Episode 45 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, I talk to Richard Peabody, the editor of Gargoyle Magazine, Plus Kirsten Holt reads a beautiful elegy. Texts Discussed Notes The music for Last Call was “Night Flight” by the band Carlton Melton. The 2013 Pulitzer Prize Winners.

Episode 44 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is npw available. This week, I talk to the poet and VIDA's co-founder Erin Belieau, Plus Julie Henderson discusses Clive Barker's The Thief of Always. Texts Discussed Notes Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s Titus Andronicus runs through April 28. Pablo Neruda's body is being exhumed, after his poetry was last month desecrated by a Kentucky Senator. Ireland mints a James Joyce coin. Textual scholars are already at work discrediting the text. Music for this week’s essay provided by Steven McClurg.

On episode 43 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, I talk to the poet Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Plus James Best discusses Gatsby. Texts Discussed Carlton Melton's Photos Of Photos" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">Photos of Photos. Photos Of Photos" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Notes Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s Titus Andronicus runs through April 28. Music for this week’s essay provided by Carlton Melton. Grrr: Amazon buys Goodreads.com. The Tequila Worms have generously offered their album Cantina as a free download.

Episode 42 is here. This week, I talk to Stephen Elliott and Isaac Fitzgerald of The Rumpus, plus Astrid Cooke writes about Stephen King's The Stand. Texts Discussed Happy Baby" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> About Cherry [Blu-ray]" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Isaac Fitzgerald's Why I Agreed to be a Bend-over Boyfriend. The Stand" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Things Fall Apart" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Notes Orlando Shakespeare Theater's Titus Andronicus runs through April 28. Music for this week's essay provided by Zelda Re-orchestrated. Chinua Achebe, Literary Titan, dies at 82.

Episode 41 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s show, I talk to the poet and teacher Emily Brandt, Plus Denise Falcone talks about Nabokov's Ada. Texts Discussed The Inside Colocation blog. Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> I love the ad-free dictionary aggregator, wordnik. The New Yorker Rejects Itself.

On episode 40, I talk to the poet Tony Hoagland, Plus Bob Lamb Explains How Ernest Hemingway saved him from Rendition. Texts Discussed Sweet Ruin (Brittingham Prize in Poetry)" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> What Narcissism Means to Me: Poems" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty: Poems" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Stupid Hope: Poems" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Show Notes This episode begins with a limerick written and read by Chris Booth, in honor of our pal Steve Kelly: Just a few, and Steve's eyes 'gan to wander; Then day next he was mute and a-ponder: When he saw where he woke, In sad tones, thus he spoke: "It's Absinthe makes the heart to grow fonder."