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

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This week is a live show: Horror Movie Poetry Night III. The Drunken Odyssey All Stars were Glendaliz Camacho, Curtis X. Meyer, Stacy Barton, Jim Driggers, Shawn McKee, Jared Silvia, Whitney Hamrick, Teege Braune, & your host, John King.

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Episode 229 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 return to Jesse Bradley’s Halloween installment of his prose reading series, There Will Be Words.

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Jesse Bradley, Karen Best, Shawn McKee, Teege Braune, John King, & Jared Silvia.
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Erik Deckers

Plus a final performance from The Terrible Mr. Sundrop.

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On this week’s show, I present a quartet of readings from HP Lovecraft: "The Beast in the Cave," "The Tree," "Beyond the Wall of Sleep," and "From Beyond."

Our readers are Chris Booth,

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Elise McKenna, and Tom Lucas.

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This episode is a companion to Episode 227, a roundtable discussion of Lovecraft.

If you like this show's readings, check out the previous literary reading episode, 123, on the year without a summer that spawned the ghost story contest between Lord Byron, the Shelleys, and Dr. Polidori.

If you are near Orlando on October 19th, come to Horror Movie Poetry Night 3.

Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_228.mp3
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In this week’s episode, I and my inestimable guests have a fine conversation about Lovecraft and his bizarre tales and his rather strange life and his exceptionally unfortunate opinions

The participants included Elise McKenna, Tom Lucas,

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An author photo can look unintentionally scarier than the horror book cover sometimes.

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In this week’s episode, I talk to poet Vidhu Aggarwal,

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Check out my essay, "There, But," in the latest issue of Animal: A Beast of a Literary Magazine.

Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_226.mp3
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