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

Horror Movie Poetry Night 2This week is a live show for Horror Movie Poetry Night 2, starring The Drunken Odyssey All Stars, brought to you several days early for your Halloweening pleasure.

Photos by Racquel Henry.
Photos by Racquel Henry.

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

  • Tom Lucas (The Mouth of Madness)
  • Teege Braune (The Creature from the Black Lagoon)
  • Anna King (House of 1,000 Corpses/The Devil's Rejects)
  • Mark Purcell (Rosemary’s Baby)
  • Genevieve Anna Tyrrell (The Exorcism of Emily Rose)
  • Vincent Crampton Satan
  • Susan Fallows (Carrie)

Special thanks to Writer's Atelier for granting us a venue!

Writers AtelierIf you live in Orlando, check out WA's website here for information about its workshops and events.

Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_177.mp3
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In this week’s episode, I interview bizarro fiction writer Tom Lucas,

Tom Lucas

plus Dallas Woodburn writes about how reading Aimee Bender'’s The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake changed her life.

Dallas Woodburn

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Pax TitanusLeather for the CorinthiansThe Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

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Horror Movie Poetry Night 2The Drunken Odyssey: A Podcast About the Writing Life presents another evening of verse inspired by that most poetic of film genres: horror!

Featuring

Mark Purcell
Teege Braune
Anna King
Vincent Crampton
Genevieve Anna Tyrrell
Tom Lucas
Susan Fallows
& your host, John King.

Absinthe ceremony to follow?

October 28, 2015

Writer's Atelier (336 Grove Avenue, Winter Park, FL)

See facebook event page here.

Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_176.mp3
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Flash Fiction Spooktacular Jesse Bradley

 

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.

 

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Besides moi, the show featured

Raymond McKee

Will Garland

Danita Berg

J. C. Sevcik

Peg Martin

Catherine Carson,

and Tom Lucas.

 

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JC Sevcik (Photo by Patrick Greene)

NOTES

Check out Michael Hearst's new album, Film Music and Other Scores, Vol. 1.

Film Music and Other Scores

Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_175.mp3
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In this week’s episode, I interview my occasional co-host Vanessa Blakeslee about her new novel, Juventud,

Photo by Ashley Inguanta.
Photo by Ashley Inguanta.

plus James Stewart III writes about how reading David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest changed his life.

James Stewart III

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Juventud

Infinite Jest

NOTES

Come see Vanessa on book tour, including her upcoming appearance on October 18th in the Sunday Salon series with Orlando Ferrand, Anu Jindal, and Asali Solomon. The reading starts at 7 P.M. at Jimmy's #43 at 43 E 7th Street, NY, NY.

Vanessa Blakeslee Book Tour

Svetlana Alexievich has won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Elvis, the king cobra who has roamed Orlando for the last 5 weeks, has been found.

In turns out, Publix Supermarkets don't recycle human skulls.

Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_174.mp3
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In this week’s episode, we have a roundtable discussion of Edgar Allen Poe.

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Present for this discussion were Jared Silvia,

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Shawn Whittington,

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Dianne Turgeon Richardson,

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Matt Peters,

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and Teege Braune,

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Jared, put THAT damned knife away.
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So you're saying my thesis isn't solid? Really?

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NOTES

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

Tom Lucas Sporting a TDO T-shirt

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.

Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_173.mp3
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