On this week’s show, I talk to the philosopher Bruce Janz,

Plus Robert Jacobs shares his Facebook posts.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Check out Keith B. Harder's Children of Icarus series here.

NOTES

See our kickstarter campaign to travel to Weeki Wachee Springs to interview Lu Vickers about Florida literature and the world famous Weeki Wachee mermaids. We reached our goal on day 1, but anything over that will go into the show.

On July 9th, Matt Peters will read prose at There Will be Words in Downtown Orlando.

On this week’s show, I share the live Bloomsday event!

NOTES

See our kickstarter campaign to travel to Weeki Wachee Springs to interview Lu Vickers about Florida literature and the world famous Weeki Wachee mermaids.

Richard Peabody, our guest on episode 45, has a new audio book of poems available through Eat Poems.  Sample the poems, then pay what you wish for the download!

On Saturday, June 22, from 5 to 8, The Drunken Odyssey will sink anchor here:

Episode 53 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

On this week’s show, I talk to Cheryl Strayed,

Plus I share the piece that first made me read Cheryl Strayed’s work, Deborah Weaver’s essay about Wild.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

On June 22, The Drunken Odyssey will be here:

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Recent reports about the National Security Agency’s PRISM data collection program have apparently lead to a spike in sales of George Orwell’s 1984 (although PRISM is really only  a minor example of the erosion not only of our privacy, but our reality, according to the philosopher Peter Ludlow).

On this week’s show, I talk once again to Nathan Holic, who first appeared on this show all the way back on episode 1,

Plus Drew Perlmutter discusses the Cannes Film Festival,

Plus Nicholas Brown discusses Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove.

Texts Discussed

NOTES

On this week’s show, I answer some mail with my friend, David James Poissant,

Plus Cathy Day Addresses The Man Who Called Her On the Phone Asking for Advice About How to Get Published.

Notes

Cathy Day's essay first appeared on her blog, right here.

If you are in Central Florida on June 16th, come celebrate Bloomsday with us!

Book Fight's Exceedingly Accurate Blurb:

“The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life is a supernova, an interstellar jamboree of colors and lights, like the twirling dresses of a troupe of champion folk dancers, like being imprisoned in Ace Freeley’s amp, throbbing like the veins in Jehovah’s hard-on.  You can look, but you can’t touch, and also, you can’t look, because if you do, you will turn to stone, and your guts will turn to marble.”

According to The Times, there was controversy over the spelling of the word that won the national spelling bee championship.  Is this anti-semitic orthography?