Fri, 2 December 2016
In this week’s episode, I present an Election Day version Jesse Bradley’s prose reading series, There Will Be Words, or in this case, There Will Be Words and/or Doom. The readers included myself, Rachel Kolman,
Thanks once again to our host, J. Bradley.
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Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 11:03pm EDT |
Sat, 26 November 2016
On this week’s show, I talk to the nonfiction writer Sayantani Dasgupta about creative nonfiction, the romance of reading, and the powerful appeal of the in-between. Listen to Sayantani's essay about 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea here.
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Fri, 18 November 2016
233: A Craft Discussion About David Foster Wallace’s E Unibus Plurim: Television and U.S. Fiction with Vanessa Blakeslee!
In this week’s episode, I talk with Vanessa Blakeslee about David Foster Wallace’s “E Unibus Plurim: Television and U.S. Fiction.” TEXTS DISCUSSED Read David Foster Wallace’s 1993 essay “E Unibus Plurim: Television and U.S. Fiction” here.
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Sat, 12 November 2016
On this week’s show, I talk to the nonfiction writer Pamela Skjolsvik about creative nonfiction, anxiety, and death, plus I briefly eulogize a triumvirate of entertainers: Leonard Cohen, Robert Vaughn, and Kevin Meaney. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES Check out Pamela Skjolsvik's essay about David Sedaris back on episode 50. Miami Book Fair International‘s amazing weekend street fair will take place on November 19th and 20th.
Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_232.mp3
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Sat, 5 November 2016
In this week’s episode, I talk to the journalist and nonfiction writer, Craig Pittman. TEXTS DISCUSSED
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Sat, 29 October 2016
This week is a live show: Horror Movie Poetry Night III. The Drunken Odyssey All Stars were Glendaliz Camacho, Curtis X. Meyer, Stacy Barton, Jim Driggers, Shawn McKee, Jared Silvia, Whitney Hamrick, Teege Braune, & your host, John King.
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Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 12:11am EDT |
Sat, 22 October 2016
Episode 229 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I return to Jesse Bradley’s Halloween installment of his prose reading series, There Will Be Words. Plus a final performance from The Terrible Mr. Sundrop.
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Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 10:49am EDT |
Sat, 15 October 2016
On this week’s show, I present a quartet of readings from HP Lovecraft: "The Beast in the Cave," "The Tree," "Beyond the Wall of Sleep," and "From Beyond." Elise McKenna, and Tom Lucas. THE TEXT NOTES This episode is a companion to Episode 227, a roundtable discussion of Lovecraft. If you like this show's readings, check out the previous literary reading episode, 123, on the year without a summer that spawned the ghost story contest between Lord Byron, the Shelleys, and Dr. Polidori. If you are near Orlando on October 19th, come to Horror Movie Poetry Night 3.
Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_228.mp3
Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 1:03pm EDT |
Sat, 8 October 2016
In this week’s episode, I and my inestimable guests have a fine conversation about Lovecraft and his bizarre tales and his rather strange life and his exceptionally unfortunate opinions The participants included Elise McKenna, Tom Lucas, and Dianne Turgeon Richardson.
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Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 4:02pm EDT |
Sat, 1 October 2016
In this week’s episode, I talk to poet Vidhu Aggarwal, plus Adelia Johnson writes about Ned Vizzini's It's Kind of a Funny Story changed her life. Check out my essay, "There, But," in the latest issue of Animal: A Beast of a Literary Magazine.
Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_226.mp3
Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 11:37am EDT |