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

On this week’s show, I present my interview with the memoirist Melanie Neale,

Melanie Neale

plus Andrew Simpson Guthrie shares his memoir essay-in-verse, "The Weighty Page."

TEXTS DISCUSSED

boat girlBoat Kid

Last Exit

NOTES

Check out the Transit Interpretation Project here, or read Ryan Rivas's essay, "Rider's Block," here.

Amiri Baraka, author of Dutchmandies at 79.

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Read Kip Robisch's "Fun Dads, Loss, and 'Saving Mr. Banks.'"

The Heaven of Animals, the forthcoming collection from friend-of-the-show David James Poissant (my co-host of the mailbag episodes), is available for pre-order. Please support the launch of this stellar story collection.

The Heaven of Animals

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