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

This week I have a long overdue convo with the extraordinary poet Laurie Rachkus Uttich.

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Category:Literature -- posted at: 4:00am EST

John speaks with his friend Jason about the creative joys of grieving and the power of earnestness and other matters of interest.

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Category:Literature -- posted at: 12:06pm EST

The poet and memoirist Lynn Melnick talks with me about the cleverness and heart of Dolly Parton, who can serve as more than a cultural icon as we try to discover how to make our unique ways in the world.

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Category:Literature -- posted at: 3:29pm EST

Rochelle Hurt interviews Julia Koets about romantic desire and loss, the villanelle form, the layouts of poetry volumes, growing up with the policing of restrictive gender norms, how research contributes to creativity, the linguistic surprises lurking in the mundane world.

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Category:Literature -- posted at: 4:00am EST

On this week’s program, I talk to the poet and novelist Chrissy Kolaya about the creative process, psychology, and the multitudinous tensions of being an American.

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Category:Literature -- posted at: 1:04pm EST

This week, I speak with my occasional co-host, Rachel Tillman about Don Marquis's Archy & Mehitabel, a series of narrative poems written by a cockroach.

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Category:Literature -- posted at: 10:35pm EST

This week, I speak with literary biographer Miranda Seymour about the extraordinary career of Jean Rhys.

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Category:Literature -- posted at: 4:00am EST

On #529, I speak with fiction writer Kathryn Harlan about her debut collection, Fruiting Bodies.

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Category:Literature -- posted at: 4:00am EST

On #528, Rachel Tillman and I discuss Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney's debut novel.

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Category:Literature -- posted at: 11:29am EST

In this week’s episode, I talk to Aaron Angello about his new book, The Fact of Memory: 114 Ruminations and Fabrications, the creative benefits of daily ritual, writing (cough) early in the morning, David Lynch, the mysteries of the word and, and ditching academic rules for the Muses.
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Category:Literature -- posted at: 1:00am EST

In this week’s show, I speak with Rachael Tillman about the poetry and practice of Anne Sexton.

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Category:Literature -- posted at: 1:30am EST

In #513, I talk to Jane-Rebecca Cannarella about genre bending & blending, illustrating literature, and the dialectics of Disney's The Little Mermaid.

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Category:Literature -- posted at: 7:56pm EST

In this week’s show, I talk to Lan Samantha Chan about writing a novel over a long period of time, learning and teaching at the Iowa Writers Workshop, the value of writing communities, and balancing teaching, administrative work, and writing.

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Category:Literature -- posted at: 11:08am EST

Sandra Lim talks about optimism, editing through the pile of a poem, letting oneself go in the current of the stream, and finding a grounding in the abstractions of mind and word.
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Category:Literature -- posted at: 3:11pm EST

On today’s show, I discuss the power of Stephen Crane with novelist Paul Auster.

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Category:Literature -- posted at: 2:56pm EST

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