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

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In this week’s episode, I talk to the poet and novelist Eleanor Lerman,

Eleanor Lerman

plus Nancy Caronia reads her essay, "Quiet."

Nancy Caronia

TEXTS DISCUSSED

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Check out Meg Sefton’s upcoming workshop on the fundamentals of flash fiction here.

To read about Kate Gale’s controversial piece about AWP’s diversity issues, check out this LA Times story. To read her apology, go to her personal blog.

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In this week’s episode, I share a recording of a fan fiction installment of Jesse Bradley’s prose reading series, There Will Be Words.

J. Bradley by Pat Greene

The There Will Be Fan Fiction featured

Teege Braune

Small Wonder

Teege Braune by Pat Greene

Jared Silvia

King of the Hill

Jared Silvia by Pat Greene

Stephanie Rizzo

Lewis and Clark

Stephanie Rizzo by Pat Greene

Genevieve Anna Tyrrell

Dexter

Genevieve Anna Tyrell by Pat Greene

and moi.

Benny Hill Ace Frehley

John King by Pat Greene


NOTES

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In this week’s episode, I talk about Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own with Vanessa Blakeslee,

Photo by Ashley Inguanta.
Photo by Ashley Inguanta.

plus Christopher Booth reads "The Disappointment,"

Chris Booth

by Aphra Behn.

Aphra_Behn

TEXTS DISCUSSED

A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf Feminism and the Reader

NOTES

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In this week’s episode, I talk to the journalist Brian Spears,

Brian Spearsplus Eugenio Negro writes about the adventure of reading Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses.

Eugenio NegroBOOKS DISCUSSED

A Witness in Exile

the satanic verses

NOTES

On Tuesday, August 11, at 7:00 P.M. at The Gallery at Avalon Island in downtown Orlando, Jared Silvia, Stephanie Rizzo, Teege Braune, Genevieve Anna Tyrell, and I will read original fan fiction for that month’s installment of J. Bradley’s prose reading series, There Will be Words.

Check out Meg Sefton's upcoming workshop on the fundamentals of flash fiction here.

An Albuquerque school adds 13,000 books to library and will not be using the Dewey Decimal system.

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