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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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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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.
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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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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 |
Sat, 24 September 2016
In this week’s episode, I talk to the journalist and historian, Bob Kealing, plus Heather Whited reads her essay, "Onigiri, Shirasagi, and Me."
TEXTS DISCUSSEDNOTESThe Daytona News-JournalThe Daytona News-Journal documented Edward Albee's involvement with the Atlantic Center for the Arts. On September 30th, Richard Blanco is coming to Valencia College for the Winter Park Writers’ Festival. Richard Blanco’s reading is FREE, but you MUST reserve a seat via the Festival’s Eventbrite page. EVENT DETAILS
You can find my interview with Richard Blanco back on episode 76. Save
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Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 2:44am EDT |
Sat, 17 September 2016
In this week’s episode, I talk with Vanessa Blakeslee about Virginia Woolf’s "Modern Fiction" and "Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown,"
plus Mingzhao Xu writes about Diana Gabaldon's Outlanders series changed her life. TEXTS DISCUSSED Suki Kim's nuanced take on what happened in Brisbane can be read at The New Republic. Lionel Shriver's "Identity Politics and Fiction" can be read at The Guardian. On September 30th, Richard Blanco is coming to Valencia College for the Winter Park Writers’ Festival. Richard Blanco’s reading is FREE, but you MUST reserve a seat via the Festival’s Eventbrite page. EVENT DETAILS
Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_224.mp3
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Sat, 10 September 2016
In this week’s episode, I talk to the novelist Vu Tran about the appeal of detective fiction, the importance of literary substance over style, the problem with femme fatale characters, the Iowa MFA experience, and many, many other things, plus Jared Silvia sings another Woody Guthrie number in honor of Labor Day, as part of his annual Labor Day musical project. TEXT DISCUSSED On September 30th, Richard Blanco is coming to Valencia College for the Winter Park Writers' Festival. Richard Blanco's reading is FREE, but you MUST reserve a seat via the Festival's Eventbrite page. EVENT DETAILS
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Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 3:41pm EDT |
Sat, 3 September 2016
In this week’s episode, I talk to the poet and novelist Ryler Dustin near the end of his residency at the Kerouac House in Orlando, after a weeklong tour of weddings. We speak about the horrors of what happens to poetry in educational environments, the dawning sense of contemporary poetry as a form of play and life, as opposed to some kind of stillborn puzzle. Ryler also talks about the poetic impulse overtaking him before he even knew what poetry was, and walks me through his experience in slam poetry and MFA life, and the creative writing PhD, and the drive to move beyond genres. For some reason, I bring up my favorite bit of dialogue from the movie Major League despite Bull Durham being a much better movie. The role of honesty and novelty in writing also brilliantly come up. (We were both sober.) NOTES
Episode 222 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
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Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 12:20am EDT |
Fri, 26 August 2016
In this week’s episode, I share There Will Be Fan Fiction 2, a special edition of Jesse Bradley’s prose reading series, There Will Be Words.
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This installment features the fan fiction of Shauna Basques (Jason Todd-era Batman), J. Bradley himself (The Mighty Ducks/Fatal Attraction crossover, obviously), Brontë Bettencourt (Frozen), A. C. Warner (Star Trek: The Next Generation, as read by me), and me (Flash Gordon). NOTES Check out the first installment of There Will Be Fan Fiction, which featured Teege Braun writing Small Wonder, Jared Silvia writing King of the Hill, Stephanie Rizzo writing about a post-apocalyptic Lewis and Clarke, Genevieve Anna Tyrrell writing Dexter, and me, that is John King, writing a Benny Hill Show/Ace Frehley crossover that includes David Foster Wallace, Yoda, My Little Pony, and a hint of Cthulu. Check out Brontë Bettencourt's blog, 21st Century Brontë. |