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

On this week’s show, I talk to the fiction writer Matthew Pitt,

Matthew Pitt

plus Pamela Skjolsvik discusses David Sedaris’s Me Talk Pretty One Day.

Texts Discussed

Attention Please Now

Me Talk Pretty One Day

great gatsby

Ishmael Reed’s WSJ blog about Django Unchained.

Kirtsen Holt’s new poem, Taxonomy.

Richie Havens’s “Freedom”

Notes:Othello

Orlando Shakespeare Theatre presents Othello, now through March 16th.

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On this week’s show, I talk to the poet Steve Davenport,

Steve Davenport

Joe Conley plums Cormac McCarthy's Child of God,

Joe Conley

Plus I answer some mail...

Texts Discussed:

Overpass

Uncontainable NoiseDavenport Nine Poems and Three Fictions

Child of God

Laurence Sterne and the Visual Imagination

Print

Notes:

Othello

Orlando Shakespeare Theatre presents Othello, now through March 16th.

Winter with the Writers

Throughout February, Rollins College will be hosting its annual author series, Winter with the Writers.

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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

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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!

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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,

Philip Deaver

plus Helena-Anne Htittel discusses Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner.

Helena-Anne Hittel

Texts Discussed:

silent_retreats

How Men Pray

15Views_small

The Kite Runner

Richard III

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.

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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,

Stephen Burdman

New York Classical Theatre

Plus Bronte Bettencourt talks about Lestat.

Bronte Bettencourt

Texts Discussed:

HamletThe Vampire Lestat

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.

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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,

Chauncey Mabe

Plus Adam Soldolfsky reads from Panorama-orama.

Adam Soldofsky

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.

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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,

Terry Cronin

And Jean Davis offers one amazing essay about Write is a Verb.

Jean Davis

Texts Discussed

Skinvestigator Part 1: Tramp Stamp

Skinvestigator Part 2: Rash Guard

Skinvestigator Part 3: Sunburn

Students of the Unusual

Write is a Verb

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.

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On this week's show, I interview novelist Grant Ginder,

Grant Ginder

Plus Tim J. Myers discusses Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are,

Tim Myers

Texts Discussed

Driver's Education
This is How it Starts
Where The Wild Things Are
This is How You Lose Her
Notes
The Drunken Odyssey has its first video posting!  Presenting Martin Amis at Miami Bookfair International (the video version of episode 26).

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