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

Episode 137 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 talk to Annemarie Ní Churreáin about Irish literature, poetry, and the call of nature,

Annemarie Ní Churreáinplus Will Garland reads his essay, The Art of Telling a Story About Southern Family Living in a Small Southern Town.

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The music used with The Art of Telling a Story About Southern Family Living in a Small Southern Town is “Color Cave” by Noveller, a one person band, that band being Sarah Lipstate. Check out the link for more info on her upcoming show at The Tinnitus Music Series in Brooklyn.

Orlando Shakespeare Theaters production of The Merry Wives of Windsor begins this week.

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Episode 136 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 talk to Walter Mosley about crime fiction, characterization, the subconscious work of the writer, and the radical aesthetics of Amiri Baraka,

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and I also talk to Petra Mason about Bettie Page, Bunny Yeager, and the legacy of pin up culture.

Photo by Janette Valentine at Terribly Girly.

Plus, Rose Tran reads her personal essay, "Intermission."

Rose Tran
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For more information about the Terribly Girly studio, check out their website.

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Episode 136 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_136.mp3
Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 5:30pm EDT

In this week’s episode, I talk about James Wood's How Fiction Works with Vanessa Blakeslee,

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Plus Amy Penne writes about how David Foster Wallace's Consider the Lobster and Other Essays changed her life.

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NOTES

On Tuesday, January 20th, 7 P.M., Leslie Salas will lead a workshop on imagery at the Orlando Public Library, Herndon Branch.

On Saturday, January 24th, 11 A.M., J. Bradley will host a love poem workshop at the Orlando Public Library.

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Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_135.mp3
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In this week’s episode, I share another Miami BookFair International interview, this one with fiction writer and poet Stuart Dybek,

Stuart Dybekand I also talk to the poet Denise Duhamel,

Denise Duhamelplus Jim Ross writes about how Moss Hart's Act One changed his life.

Jim RossTEXTS DISCUSSED

Ecstatic CahootsPaper LanternBlow OutAct One

NOTES

In Orlando, come hear me, Kimberly Lojewski, Robert Metcalf, and Tiffany Razzano read prose at There Will Be Words on January 13th.

On Tuesday, January 20th, 7 P.M., Leslie Salas will lead a workshop on imagery at the Orlando Public Library, Herndon Branch

On Saturday, January 24th, 11 A.M., J. Bradley will host a love poem workshop at the Orlando Public Library.

On Saturday, January 24th, 7 P.M., come hear Boris Fishman read from his novel, A Replacement Life, and me read poetry at the Gallery at Avalon Island.

Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_134.mp3
Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 4:54pm EDT

In this week’s episode, I share another Miami BookFair International interview, this one with writer and filmmaker John Waters.

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 NOTES

In Orlando, come hear me, Kimberly Lojewski, Robert Metcalf, and Tiffany Razzano read prose at There Will Be Words on January 13th.

On Tuesday, January 20th, 7 P.M., Leslie Salas will lead a workshop on imagery at the Orlando Public Library, Herndon Branch

On Saturday, January 24th, 11 A.M., J. Bradley will host a love poem workshop at the Orlando Public Library.

On Saturday, January 24th, 7 P.M., come hear Boris Fishman read from his novel, A Replacement Life, and me read poetry at the Gallery at Avalon Island.

Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_133.mp3
Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 12:29pm EDT

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