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

This week is a live show for Horror Movie Poetry Night, starring The Drunken Odyssey All Stars.

Drew Johnson, Photo by Leslie Silvia. (That's a blurry John King, far left.)
Drew Johnson, Photo by Leslie Silvia. (That's a blurry John King in golden mouse ears, far left.)

On this occasion, The Drunken Odyssey All-Stars included:

Amy Watkins (The Walking Dead)
Vincent Crampton Dr. Josef Heiter (The Human Centipede)
Anna King (The Silence of the Lambs)
Drew Johnson (The Shining)
Jeff Shuster (The Blair Witch Project)
Melanie Neale (Jaws)
Teege Braune (Werewolves)
Karen Price (Rosemary's Baby)
Stephanie Rizzo (Gremlins)

Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_124.mp3
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On this week's show, I present a discussion of and readings from work that resulted in the companionship of Lord Byron, his physician John Polidori, and the Shelley's during the Year without a Summer, in which a ghost story challenge was undertaken.

Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley, by Richard Rothwell.

John William Polidori

John William Polidori
John William Polidori as painted by F.G. Gainsford.

Lord Byron

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Lord Byron, engraving by person unknown, colored by person unknown, as of press time.

Notes

Please give thanks to the amazing talents and efforts of this episode's two readers:

Chris Booth

Chris BoothAugust Evans

August Evans

Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_123.mp3
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In this week’s episode, I share a recording of a Halloween show in Jesse Bradley's prose reading series, There Will Be Words, in which I was a reader.

The There Will Be Words Fourth Annual Flash Fiction Spooktacular featured

KAREN BEST
KEITH GOUVEIA
MATT PETERS
JOHN KING
WHITNEY HAMRICK
BRETT PRIBBLE
TEEGE BRAUNE
JARED SILVIA

Karen Best

Karen Best (Photo by Leslie Silvia).

Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_122.mp3
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In this week’s episode, I interview the poet Vincent Cellucci,

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Plus Robert Wallace writes about reading The Grapes of Wrath.

Robert Wallace

TEXTS DISCUSSED

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Fuck Poems

The Grapes of Wrath

NOTES

Kerouac House Marker

On October 22, if you are in the City Beautiful (that is Orlando), come see the Kerouac House receive its own historical marker. This is the house that Jack lived in when On the Road came out, where he lived when he wrote The Dharma Bums.

The French novelist Patrick Modiano has won the Nobel Prize (The New York Times).

According to The Guardian, Dario Agenta and Iggy Pop are crowdsourcing a movie adaptation of  ETA Hoffmann's The Sandman.

Check out the new podcast by Sherman Alexie and Jess Walter, A Tiny Sense of Accomplishment.

Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_121.mp3
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Mixtape

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