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

On #529, I speak with fiction writer Kathryn Harlan about her debut collection, Fruiting Bodies.

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On #528, Rachel Tillman and I discuss Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney's debut novel.

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On #526 I talk to poet Rochelle Hurt about her latest book, The J Girls: A Reality Show.

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On #525, I talk to Brynne Rebele-Henry about divinity, sexuality, and historical imagination in her extraordinary latest collection of verse, Prelude.

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On #524, I talk to Yeoh Jo-Ann, the spring 2022 resident of the Kerouac Project of Orlando, about her novel, Impractical Uses of Cake, proper otter behavior, the role of agency in happiness, cat envy, teaching Shakespeare to teenagers, and the small ways teachers entertain themselves every day.

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In this week’s episode, I talk to Aaron Angello about his new book, The Fact of Memory: 114 Ruminations and Fabrications, the creative benefits of daily ritual, writing (cough) early in the morning, David Lynch, the mysteries of the word and, and ditching academic rules for the Muses.
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In this week’s episode, I talk to Ann Hood about the challenges of writing nonfiction, the intertwining of feminism and women’s rights and the history of aviation before and after deregulation, the value of non-writing jobs for young writers, and so much more.

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In this week’s show, I speak with the creative nonfiction writer Nita Noveno about the Peace Corps, having a writing community, the Kerouac House, gators, gators, and more gators, and bears, and all of Florida’s wild charms, including the people.
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In this week’s show, I speak with Rachael Tillman about the poetry and practice of Anne Sexton.

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