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

In this week’s episode, I talk to chronicler of the rambling life, Michele Roldán Shaw,

Photo by Pressly Hall Giltner Photography.
Photo by Pressly Hall Giltner Photography.

plus Nancy Caronia reads her essay, "Deserving Angels."

Nancy Caronia

 

NOTES

Check out the sweet swag in The Drunken Odyssey's fundraiser here.

Check out these Burrow Press events. Literary Death Match will be judged by Billy Collins.

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Saturday October 3rd  |  Functionally Literate Presents:

PADGETT POWELL  |  REBECCA EVANHOE  |  BETH McKEE
Lowndes Shakespeare Center  |  812 E. Rollins Street
7pm  |  FREE  |  No ticket necessary.

Wednesday October 7th  |  Literary Death Match Presents:

ERICA DAWSON  |  DAVID JAMES POISSANT
KRISTIN HARMEL  |  KRISTEN ARNETT
Mad Cow Theatre  |  54 W. Church Street, 2nd Floor
Doors at 7pm  |  Show at 8pm
$12 pre-sale  |  $15 at the door.

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In this week’s episode, I talk about Jorge Luis Borges's This Craft of Verse with Vanessa Blakeslee,

Photo by Ashley Inguanta.
Photo by Ashley Inguanta.

plus Jared Silvia performs Peter Seger's "Hobo's Lullaby."

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TEXTS DISCUSSED

This Craft of Verse

7 Notebooks

NOTES

Check out the great perks for The Drunken Odyssey’s fundraiser here. Gator finger puppets not included.

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Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_171.mp3
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In this week’s episode, I talk to prose writer and educator, Danita Berg,

Danita Berg

plus Catherine Carson reads her poem, "Reverse Evolution, or Sex in the Environment."

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TEXTS DISCUSSED

Creative Composition

NOTES

If you live in Orlando, check out Meg Sefton’s upcoming workshop on the fundamentals of flash fiction here. It will take place on September 27, 2015.

Check out the great perks (such as TDO T-shirts) for The Drunken Odyssey’s fundraiser here.

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You are allowed to wear the shirt without taping your eyes shut ... technically.

To read about the feminism panel at the Decatur Book Festival, read the Guardian article here, or the Electric Literature account here.

To read about the Michael Derrick Hudson/Best American Poetry 2015 controversy, read Sherman Alexie's explanation here, Rich Smith's smart take over at The Stranger, or The Washington Post's reportage here.

In NYC, to attend the book launch event for Best American Poetry 2015, go here.

Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_170.mp3
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In this week’s episode, I talk to fiction writer J. R. Miller,

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plus C.T. McMillan writes about the unsettling moral complexities of Untold Tales of the Punisher Max.

Charles McMillan

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Nobody's Looking

Punisher MAXAlthough of Course

 

NOTES

  • Check out the great perks for The Drunken Odyssey’s fundraiser here.

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The End of the Tour

 

Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_169.mp3
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