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

Episode 39 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is now available. On this week’s show, I talk to Rick Moody, James Best explains why he isn't afraid of sharks, Plus I talk to the playwright and actor Charlie Bethel about his current one man show of The Odyssey. Texts Discussed On Celestial Music: And Other Adventures in Listening" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> The Four Fingers of Death: A Novel" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Demonology: Stories" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven : A Novella and Stories" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Notes The Drunken Odyssey will be making a pub crawl in Boston this Friday.

On this week’s show, I talk to the fiction writer Matthew Pitt, plus Pamela Skjolsvik discusses David Sedaris’s Me Talk Pretty One Day. Texts Discussed Ishmael Reed’s WSJ blog about Django Unchained. Kirtsen Holt’s new poem, Taxonomy. Richie Havens’s “Freedom” Notes: Orlando Shakespeare Theatre presents Othello, now through March 16th.

On this week’s show, I talk to the poet Steve Davenport, Joe Conley plums Cormac McCarthy's Child of God, Plus I answer some mail... Texts Discussed: Uncontainable Noise" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Child of God" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Laurence Sterne And the Visual Imagination" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Notes: Orlando Shakespeare Theatre presents Othello, now through March 16th. Throughout February, Rollins College will be hosting its annual author series, Winter with the Writers.

On this week’s show, The Drunken Odyssey All-Stars & I get erotic, poetically speaking... Here are the ancestral German kissing dolls shown off by Lisa Claire Roney on the show! The Drunken Odyssey All-Stars ______________________________ Vanessa Blakeslee Tod Caviness Genevieve Tyrrell Anna King Ryan Rivas Kirsten Holt Susan Lilley Plus A letter from James Best, A limerick from Christopher Booth, and show & tell with Lisa Claire Roney!

Episode 35 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available. On this week’s show, I talk with my friend Philip F. Deaver, who happens to have won a Flannery O'Conner Award, plus Helena-Anne Htittel discusses Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner. Texts Discussed: Notes Throughout February, Rollins College will be hosting its annual author series, Winter with the Writers. Orlando Shakespeare Theatre presents Othello, now through March 16th. Get the Groupon here. In other Shakespeare news, Richard III's remains were found underneath a parking lot. I'm not making this up--it's in The Times.

Episode 34 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is here! On this week’s show, I talk Shakespeare with Stephen Burdman, the artistic director of New York Classical Theatre, Plus Bronte Bettencourt talks about Lestat. Texts Discussed: Hamlet" style="color: #990000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.8; text-decoration: none;"> Notes Laurence Olivier's screenplay adaptation of his never-filmed Macbeth has been found, according to The Guardian. Barnes and Noble will be closing 20 stores a year for the next decade, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Episode 33 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right here for download. On this week’s show, I interview noted reviewer Chauncey Mabe, Plus Adam Soldolfsky reads from Panorama-orama. Notes Chauncey Mabe's now defunct but still evergreen blog for the Florida Center for the Literary Arts. Amazon cannot underprice books in France, as reported in The New York Times. Books and Books, the best independent in South Florida. Orlando Cultural Events This week, the Zora Neale Hurston Festival is underway. Attend The Drunken Odyssey's Evening of Erotic Poetry on February 8th. Throughout February, Rollins College will be hosting its annual author series, Winter with the Writers. Orlando Shakespeare Theatre presents Othello, now through March 16th. Episode 33 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right here for download.

Episode 32 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is now available. On this week’s show, I interview novelist Terry Cronin, And Jean Davis offers one amazing essay about Write is a Verb. Texts Discussed The Skinvestigator: Tramp Stamp (Sunshine State Trilogy)" style="color: #990000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.8; text-decoration: none;"> The Skinvestigator: Rash Guard (The Sunshine State Trilogy)" style="color: #990000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.8; text-decoration: none;"> The Skinvestigator: Sunburn" style="color: #990000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.8; text-decoration: none;"> Write Is a Verb: Sit Down, Start Writing, No Excuses" style="color: #990000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.8; text-decoration: none;"> Notes Susan Lilley will be reading from her new book of poems, Satellite Beach, on Thursday, January 24th, at Rollins College. For more info, click here. Show contributor Alise Hamilton (episode 7) discusses bingers and plodders, and the merits of the former as writers, at Bill and Dave's Cocktail Hour. A history of the Coppertone sign.

On this week's show, I interview novelist Grant Ginder, Plus Tim J. Myers discusses Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, Texts Discussed Driver's Education: A Novel" style="color: #990000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.8; text-decoration: none;"> This Is How It Starts: A Novel" style="color: #990000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.8; text-decoration: none;"> Notes The Drunken Odyssey has its first video posting! Presenting Martin Amis at Miami Bookfair International (the video version of episode 26). vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/57195594 w=500&h=333

On this weeks show, I interview the ever-fabulous Francesca Lia Block, Plus Lillian-Yvonne Bertram reads her poem, "You Can’t Outdrink The Moon, O Sestina, Sestina Who Has Been Drinking." Texts Discussed The Elementals" style="color: #990000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.8; text-decoration: none;"> But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise" style="color: #990000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.8; text-decoration: none;"> Crazy Clown Time" style="color: #990000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.8; text-decoration: none;"> Notes On January 6th, Ashley Inguanta will perform her debut collection, The Way Home, with musicians Mandy Burgan and Benoit Glazer, and with dancer Christin Carlow. Find out more here. The greatest new trend in libraries. Matt Taibbi's Readers' list of 10 most pretentious moments in history. James Franco is, umm, a poet. [Guardian] [The New York Times]