Episode 125 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 interview the novelist Kent Wascom,
Plus Ian Rogers writes about reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
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The music accompanying Ian Rogers's Essay is The Lovely Moon's "And We Danced Into the Night."
The music in the introduction ("Central Coast Swing")and conclusion ("Baia") of this episode was by the immortal Croatian surf rock band, The Bambi Molesters.
This week is a live show for Horror Movie Poetry Night, starring The Drunken Odyssey All Stars.
Drew Johnson, Photo by Leslie Silvia. (That's a blurry John King in golden mouse ears, far left.)
On this occasion, The Drunken Odyssey All-Stars included:
Amy Watkins (The Walking Dead) Vincent Crampton Dr. Josef Heiter (The Human Centipede) Anna King (The Silence of the Lambs) Drew Johnson (The Shining) Jeff Shuster (The Blair Witch Project) Melanie Neale (Jaws) Teege Braune (Werewolves) Karen Price (Rosemary's Baby) Stephanie Rizzo (Gremlins)
On this week's show, I present a discussion of and readings from work that resulted in the companionship of Lord Byron, his physician John Polidori, and the Shelley's during the Year without a Summer, in which a ghost story challenge was undertaken.
Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley, by Richard Rothwell.
John William Polidori
John William Polidori as painted by F.G. Gainsford.
Lord Byron
Lord Byron, engraving by person unknown, colored by person unknown, as of press time.
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Please give thanks to the amazing talents and efforts of this episode's two readers:
In this week’s episode, I interview the poet Vincent Cellucci,
Plus Robert Wallace writes about reading The Grapes of Wrath.
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On October 22, if you are in the City Beautiful (that is Orlando), come see the Kerouac House receive its own historical marker. This is the house that Jack lived in when On the Road came out, where he lived when he wrote The Dharma Bums.
The French novelist Patrick Modiano has won the Nobel Prize (The New York Times).
According to The Guardian, Dario Agenta and Iggy Pop are crowdsourcing a movie adaptation of ETA Hoffmann's The Sandman.
Episode 118 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 interview The verse novelist Holly Thompson,
Plus Laryssa Wirstiuk writes about how Jonathan Saffron Foer's Eating Animals changed her life.
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Check out Functionally Literate Radio, which on the latest episode features my essay, "I Heart Smokey and the Bandit."
From the Facebook page of Bob Lamb (episode 40), in regard to his informal "Worst First Sentence of a Bad Novel Contest":
Okay, final verdict is in. First place--John King, although one of the judges worried that it was so funny that it could be used as the first sentence of a comic masterpiece rather than a bad novel. Yet, its originality, the sudden twists and turns of inspired lunacy, and the supermarket imagery cleverly woven into a surreal scene so impressed the judges that it really was no contest. Second place went to Steve Edwards--his economy, precision, and repetition of really bad metaphors obviously made his entry a powerful one, and the final metaphor of the peach pit as a tiny wooden brain had a certain je ne sais quois that evoked a peal of delightful revulsion. Third place went to Bob Lamb--although an unoriginal mockery of standard noir detective fiction a la Hammett, the judges felt that it's his goddamned contest and he ought to get some sort of a prize, especially given his fragile psyche and penchant for violence. The judges also awarded a distinguished parody prize to Eric Link for his brilliant satire of Hemingway writing a zombie novel. Although not technically a bad first sentence of a bad novel, and even though the judges could see this turning into a great parody of Hemingway and zombie fiction, they felt it was more appropriate for the old "Bad Hemingway" contest that used to run annually. Another entry, by Elizabeth Stuckey-French, was simply way too interesting and good to fit a bad first sentence contest. This often occurs when a real writer tries to write a bad sentence--their talent turns it into a sentence with potential. The judges found themselves wanting to read more, which is always a sign that your first sentence is not truly bad. The gutless wonder award goes to Mike Cocchiarale, who caused Bob Lamb to write concluding sentences to his bad novel, and then did not even participate. The judges felt that although Mr. Cocchiarale is an avid sports fan from Cleveland, and thus hopelessly trapped in a world of pain and confusion, he should have at least tried and failed, not unlike his beloved Browns. Lou Hickman and Tim Reynolds have been disqualified for cheating, and have received a five-year ban from participating in the contest. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Kip Robisch, for his disruptive actions on this thread, and we expect to have him in custody shortly. We are working with law enforcement and immigration to have him deported.
And here was my winning entry:
When the were-pigs, gibbering in their porcine poetry and slapping the ground with their by-now clawed hooves, overran the supermarket, heaving their fleshy forms over the aisles of Cel-Ray sodas and bread and chick-peas, Clem knew that he better put down his inventory forms and drag the crossbow out of the safe again, but an icy sliver of revulsion, fear, and longing penetrated his spine, and he stood in front of the office window, watching the sounder below careen over the black and white tiles, demolishing the glass doors of the frozen food aisles, before their leader jumped onto the conveyor belt of check out line #7, and stared directly at him with wolf-like eyes, as if the giant porker was preparing to speak.
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Episode 118 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 interview Pat Rushin, who authored the screenplay for the new Terry Gilliam film, The Zero Theorem, which opens in the U.S.A on September 19th,
Pat Rushin and his wife Mary on the set of The Zero Theorem.
Plus Craig-Paul Moreau writes about Randy Shilts's And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic.
Photo by Demian Rosenblatt.
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Check out where The Zero Theorem will be playing in the U.S.A. here.
In this week’s episode, I interview Stephen Corey, Editor-in-Chief of The Georgia Review,
Photograph by William Walsh.
Plus August Evans writes about Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping.
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Margaret Atwood if the first entrant into the Future Library Project, with work to be printed in 2214, from trees in a forest planted this year (reported in a Guardian story by Alison Flood).
On this week’s show, I answer some mail with my friend, David James Poissant,
Plus Clint Peters writes about how reading Montaigne changed his life.
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Check out David James Poissant's wonderful story collection, The Heaven of Animals.
According to NPR, Robert Hass has won the Wallace Stevens prize.
According toThe Guardian, Doris Lessing willed 3,000 books to a library in Harare, Zimbabwe. Meanwhile, Florida Polytechnic is opening with a library that has zero print books (Guardian).
Also according to The Guardian, Martin Amis's controversial new book, Zone of Interest, is having some publishing difficulties.
I incorrectly called Bullets and Burgers a shooting range, when according to The Times, Burgers and Bullets is the name of the tour guide service that brings people to a shooting range about 25 miles outside of Vegas, in Arizona, where a nine year-old girl accidentally shot her shooting instructor with an Uzi after he set the gun to repeater action.
On this week’s show, I talk to Vanessa Blakeslee about what Aristotle's Poetics can teach us about fiction writing today,
Plus Kevin Bray writes about reading John Gardner's On Becoming a Novelist.
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This new project--discussing relevant books about the craft of storytelling--is a continuation of a long defunct feature of the show. Two years ago, Jaroslav KalfaÅ™ and I discussed Stephen King's On Writing on episode 6 and John Gardner's The Art of Fiction on episode 2.
Quoting George Orwell in an shockingly Orwellian way, Amazon has undertaken a weird counter-compaign to the Authors United movement, according to David Streitfield in The Times. Check out the statement from Authors United that led to this counter-campaign.
On this week’s show, I talk to the poet and essayist Nicole Callihan,
plus Maureen Vance writes about Jane Eyre.
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According to The Guardian, British publishers and the Society for Authors (a trade union for UK writers) are trying to push back against Amazon’s fierce demands for more power in the book industry. They liken Amazon's terms to a form of "assisted suicide."
According to The Times, Barnes and Noble will spin off its Nook division as a separate company from its traditional bookseller endeavors.
Carlton Melton's "Spiderwebs" accompanies Maureen Vance's "Jane and Me." This song is available on the album Always Even.
The Tequila Worms have generously offered their album Cantina as a free download.
Jeremy Greenfield, in an article for The Atlantic, has explored the continuing struggle between Amazon.com and the Hachette publishing group.
The Peyton James Freeman Prize for nonfiction essays is now accepting submissions. There is no reading fee, and the contest is being judged by Cheryl Strayed.
Horoscopes penned by my signature character Guy Psycho are now available online at The Newer York's site.
On this week’s show, I talk to the fiction writer Kelly Luce,
Plus Nicole Callihan meditates on motherhood, sustenance, autism, and language in "Notes Toward: Babies, Bananas, Boxes."
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Nicole Callihan's "Notes Toward: Babies, Bananas, Boxes" first appeared on River and Sound Review.
According to The Guardian and Publishers Weekly, some members of South Carolina's state legislature is trying to punish its state universities that support gay and lesbian culture. For more information about the protest over this, check out the website of Writers Speaking Out Loud.
Congratulations to Laura Van Den Berg for her story O-Pah-Locka (published in the southern review), and for Dylan Landis for her story, “Trust” (published in Tin House) for winning O'Henry Prizes for 2014. Laura was my guest on episode 91, and Dylan was my guest on episode 48.
On this week’s show, I talk to the fiction writer and historian of Florida attractions Lu Vickers,
Plus Joe Marchia writes about Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood.
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Check out this indiegogo crowd-sourcing effort to bring St. Mark’s Bookshop to a new home in the East Village.
Sheman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is given away to students in an Iowa district in which the novel is banned from schools.
On May 13th, I will participate in The Best of There Will Be Words 2013 show. If you're in Orlando, join us.
Episode 96 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s show, I present Rick Moody's recent reading at the University of Central Florida.TEXTS DISCUSSED
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Check out this indiegogo crowd-sourcing effort to bring St. Mark’s Bookshop to a new home in the East Village.
On this week’s show, I talk to the poet Eleanor Lerman,
Plus Alden Jones writes about her time working in Cuba.
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Check out episode 48 to hear Eleanor Lerman's essay about Leonard Cohen's Spice Box of Earth.
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Check out the indiegogo crowd-sourcing effort to bring St. Mark’s Bookshop to a new home in the East Village. Endorsed by this show and Anne Waldman.
I recommend Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s production of Julius Caesar, playing until April 20th.
Check out Beating Windward Press’s call for essays for its forthcoming essay collection, The Things They Did For Money: How Writers, Artists, and Creatives Support the Habit.
On this week’s show, I talk to Bob Contant and Terry McCoy, the owners of St. Mark's Bookshop,
Plus Dan Lauer writes about identity and New York City.
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Check out the indiegogo crowd-sourcing effort to bring St. Mark's Bookshop to a new home in the East Village. Endorsed by this show and Anne Waldman.
I recommend Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s production of Julius Caesar, playing until April 20th.
Check out Beating Windward Press’s call for essays for its forthcoming essay collection, The Things They Did For Money: How Writers, Artists, and Creatives Support the Habit.
Episode 93 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
On this week’s show, I talk to the multidisciplinary wonder that is J. Bradley,
Plus Molly Gleeson writes about reading Anthony Trollope while teaching in Saudia Arabia.
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Hear J. Bradley read his "You + Me = Awwwwwww Yeah" + "Pussycat Interstellar Naked Hotrod Mofo Ladybug Lust Blaster" by Derrick Brown on the second erotic poetry live show of The Drunken Odyssey.
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I recommend Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s production of Julius Caesar, playing until April 20th.
Check out Beating Windward Press’s call for essays for its forthcoming essay collection, The Things They Did For Money: How Writers, Artists, and Creatives Support the Habit.
In England, authors are protesting a new measure that prohibits inmates from getting access to books in the mail (BBC).
Beckett once directed his own plays, in performances featuring San Quentin inmates.
Here's an image of the Chronic City finale poster.
On this week’s show, I talk to fiction writer Laura Van Den Berg,
Plus Will Dowd reads two poems.
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I recommend Orlando Shakespeare Theater's production of Julius Caesar, playing until April 20th.
Check out Beating Windward Press's call for essays for its forthcoming essay collection, THE THINGS THEY DID FOR MONEY: HOW WRITERS, ARTISTS, AND CREATIVES SUPPORT THE HABIT.
On this week’s show, my friends Teege Braune of In Boozo Veritas fame, Matt Peters, Jared Silvia, and my brother James King join me for a wooly discussion of St. Patrick's Day. Much was consumed.
Jared and James watch Teege do his miraculous pouring technique.
The foot of good cheer.
How can it be possible Teege is only a quarter Irish?
Creamy toasty goodness.
Eventually, the peer pressure was too great for sweet Matthew.
My red face was sunburn. The angle of my head, weariness.
On this week’s show, I talk to the musician Rich Millman from the band Carlton Melton,
Plus Kelsey Liebenson-Morse writes about reading Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome.
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The Florida Writers’ Conference goes from February 13th-15th, ending with the Florida premiere of Terry Giliam’s new film, written by Pat Rushin, The Zero Theorem. Click here to learn how to register for the conference.
Read Beating Windward’s call for essays for its forthcoming anthology, The Things They Did for Money: How Writers, Artists, and Creatives Support the Habit.
The Heaven of Animals, the forthcoming collection from friend-of-the-show David James Poissant, is available for pre-order. Please support the launch of his book, which is wonderful reading.
Episode 84 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
On this week’s show, I talk to the journalist Lynn Waddell,
Plus D. S. Jones writes about how the Charles Bukowski's Post Office changed his life.
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The Florida Writers’ Conference goes from February 13th-15th, ending with the Florida premiere of Terry Giliam’s new film, written by Pat Rushin, The Zero Theorem. Click here to learn how to register for the conference.
On this week’s show, I talk to the poet Susan Lilley,
Plus Anthony Jacobson writes about how the books of Irvine Welsh changed his life.
Irvine Welsh is on the left, Tony on the right.
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Quentin Tarantino vows to shelve his upcoming film project, The Hateful Eight, after the screenplay's first draft was leaked (according to Deadline).
The Florida Writers' Conference goes from February 13th-15th, ending with the Florida premiere of Terry Giliam's new film, written by Pat Rushin, The Zero Theorem. Click here to learn how to register for the conference.
Carlton Melton's "Smoke Drip," from their album Photos of Photos, accompanied Anthony Jacobson's "Hang-Up at the Gorgie Venture Hostel for Exceptional Young Men."
On this week’s show, I answer some mail with my friend, David James Poissant,
Plus Dan Lauer writes about "standing straight."
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According to The Guardian, the short list for the Hatchet Awards has been announced.
The Heaven of Animals, the forthcoming collection from friend-of-the-show David James Poissant, is available for pre-order. Please support the launch of his book, which is remarkable fucking reading.
The Heaven of Animals, the forthcoming collection from friend-of-the-show David James Poissant (my co-host of the mailbag episodes), is available for pre-order. Please support the launch of this stellar story collection.
On this week’s show, I present my interview with Sharon Olds,
and my interview with Robert Pinsky,
plus I share Robert Pinsky and Laurence Hobgood's performance of Creole.
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I am in the running for the "Best of 2013" show of Jesse Bradley's reading series, There Will be Words. The current poll is here until midnight, January 6.
In the New York Times's Bit blog, David Steitfield has wrung his hands about the analytics coming out of subscription services for ebook libraries. There is a nice still photo of Keria Knightly from the film of Pride and Prejudice.
Amiri Baraka seems to be recovering after his hospital visit last week, according to The New York Daily News.
The Heaven of Animals, the forthcoming collection from friend-of-the-show David James Poissant (my co-host of the mailbag episodes), is available for pre-order. Please support the launch of this stellar story collection.
According to the Kids' Right to Read Project, 2013 has been a record year for attempts to ban books in libraries in schools. The Diary of Anne Frank, you know, is too pornographic for American children to be exposed to. This was reported in The Guardian.
The Heaven of Animals, the forthcoming collection from friend-of-the-show David James Poissant, is available for pre-order. Please support the launch of his book, which is wonderful reading.
On this week’s show, I present TDO’s Repeal Day party, starring Robert Cassanelo, Mark Pursell, Hunter Choate, Leslie Salas, Anna King, Dan Lauer, and Teege Braune!
The venue (photo by Leslie Salas)
Robert Cassanello, preparing to read the opening piece (photo by Leslie Salas)
Mark Pursell on his long ago teetotaling days (photo by Leslie Salas)
Ah (photo by Leslie Salas)
Hunter reads a ghost story told over vodkas (photo by Leslie Salas)
City Fish was a wonderful location (photo by Leslie Salas)
Anna King versifies on drinking Granadas at the Marriot Marquis (photo by Leslie Salas)
Dan Lauer about a binge with the owner of the Murder Museum (photo by Leslie Salas)
On my third drink, I am finally smiling (photo by Leslie Salas)
Madison Bernath contemplates a world in which the repeal never happened (photo by Leslie Salas)
Teege takes it home (photo by Leslie Salas)
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The Heaven of Animals, the forthcoming collection from friend-of-the-show David James Poissant, is available for pre-order. Please support the launch of his book, which is wonderful reading.
On this week’s show, I interview the legend Nikki Giovanni,
plus Peter Biello writes about reading Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.
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Peter Biello’s essay on The Road featured “Found Children” from Carlton Melton’s Pass it On.
The Heaven of Animals, the forthcoming collection from friend-of-the-show David James Poissant, is available for pre-order. Please support the launch of his book, which is wonderful reading.
On this week’s show, I interview fiction writer Matt Bell,
plus Rose Tran writes about encountering Matt Bell's How They Were Found.
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On December 5th, at 7 P.M., The Drunken Odyssey will host a live reading in honor of Repeal Day, which marked the signing of the 21st amendment, thus ending prohibition. See the facebook event.
The Heaven of Animals, the forthcoming collection from friend-of-the-show David James Poissant, is available for pre-order. Please support the launch of his book, which is wonderful reading.
The Heaven of Animals, the forthcoming collection from friend-of-the-show David James Poissant, is available for pre-order. Please support the launch of his book, which is remarkable fucking reading.
On this week’s show, I talk to the fiction writer Tessa Mellas,
Plus Todd Sentell writes about Huckleberry Finn, A Good Man is Hard to Find, and the Near Death of Literature.
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The Heaven of Animals, the forthcoming collection from friend-of-the-show David James Poissant, is available for pre-order. Please support the launch of his book, which is remarkable fucking reading.
On this week’s show, I share the latest installment of Functionally Literate, the reading series hosted by Jared Silvia, and this time featuring Nathan Holic and Lindsay Hunter!
Episode 68 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
On this week’s show, I talk to the fiction writer Kristiana Kahahauwila,
Plus Graham Hillard reads his memoir essay, "Physical Education."
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Graham Hillard's "Physical Education" first appeared in the journal Sports Literate.
The Heaven of Animals, the forthcoming collection from friend-of-the-show David James Poissant, is available for pre-order. Please support the launch of his first book!
The Heaven of Animals, the forthcoming collection from friend-of-the-show David James Poissant, is available for pre-order. Please support the launch of his first book!
Episode 67 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
On this week’s show, I talk to the novelist Kalliope Lee,
plus Scott Hoffman talks about John Demos's The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America.
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Until Tuesday, September 17th, 8 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, you can get a free ebook of Sunday Girl by going to smashwords, searching for Sunday Girl, and entering the code CV74V.
The Taming of the Shrew runs September 11th through October 6th at Orlando Shakespeare Theater. Get tickets here.
An author's first duty is to let down his country.
Episode 62 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is here.
On this week’s show, I answer some mail with my friend, David James Poissant,
Plus Jared Silvia reads his amazing new essay, "City of Ghosts."
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• Think about helping Beating Windward Press fund new art for its Doc Voodoo pulp fiction series. The swag is considerable, like this t-shirt.
• Members of Pussy Riot! are serving time in a Russian jail for the charge of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred." What they did was perform "Mother of God, Drive Putin Away" in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. While these women are rightly venerated as warriors of free speech, and the phrase "Free Pussy Riot!" is now famous as a movement. What I learned this week, though, is that besides all of that, their music also happens to be fucking wild and should be respected by anyone who has an ear for punk.
On this week’s show, I share a Functionally Literate event I participated in back in May with Monica Wendel and Philip Deaver.
This was an accidental DO reunion, since Monica was a guest on episodes 5 and 49, and Philip was a guest on episode 35. Alas, Enid Schumer could not attend.
On this week’s show, I talk to the essayist and novelist Chuck Klosterman,
Plus John McCaffrey discusses Leo Durocher's Nice Guys Finish Last.
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On July 9th, Mattew Peters will read prose at There Will be Words in Downtown Orlando.
See our kickstarter campaign to travel to Weeki Wachee Springs to interview Lu Vickers about Florida literature and the world famous Weeki Wachee mermaids. We reached our goal on day 1, but we welcome your continued contributions to keep the show going strong!
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When I complained that Britney Spears was in Esquire back in the early paleolithic days of 2004, I confess I didn't dwell sufficiently on what Chuck Klosteman's article said about her cognitive dissonance, although his words were competing with Britney Spears's anatomy at the time.
On May 14th, 1988, Atlantic Records held a 40th Anniversary Concert during which, in my infallible opinion, and it pained me to say this, Debbie Gibson outplayed Led Zeppelin. Want to disagree? Watch the footage:
Debbie Gibson
Led Zeppelin
For the record, Jason Bonham was drumming, although I don't this Hindenburg of a performance can be blamed on him.
According to a Times profile, Alice Munro is retiring.
According to The Guardian, Neil Gaiman is writing a new Sandman series.
On this week’s show, I talk to the philosopher Bruce Janz,
Plus Robert Jacobs shares his Facebook posts.
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Check out Keith B. Harder's Children of Icarus series here.
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See our kickstarter campaign to travel to Weeki Wachee Springs to interview Lu Vickers about Florida literature and the world famous Weeki Wachee mermaids. We reached our goal on day 1, but anything over that will go into the show.
The Drunken Odyssey hath done Rumfest the Ninth.
Matthew Peters, Captain Morgan, and John King were drunken Odyssians on June 21st.
On July 9th, Matt Peters will read prose at There Will be Words in Downtown Orlando.
On this week’s show, I share the live Bloomsday event!
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See our kickstarter campaign to travel to Weeki Wachee Springs to interview Lu Vickers about Florida literature and the world famous Weeki Wachee mermaids.
Richard Peabody, our guest on episode 45, has a new audio book of poems available through Eat Poems. Sample the poems, then pay what you wish for the download!
On Saturday, June 22, from 5 to 8, The Drunken Odyssey will sink anchor here:
Episode 53 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
On this week’s show, I talk to Cheryl Strayed,
Plus I share the piece that first made me read Cheryl Strayed’s work, Deborah Weaver’s essay about Wild.
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On June 22, The Drunken Odyssey will be here:
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Recent reports about the National Security Agency’s PRISM data collection program have apparently lead to a spike in sales of George Orwell’s 1984(although PRISM is really only a minor example of the erosion not only of our privacy, but our reality, according to the philosopher Peter Ludlow).
On this week’s show, I answer some mail with my friend, David James Poissant,
Plus Cathy Day Addresses The Man Who Called Her On the Phone Asking for Advice About How to Get Published.
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Cathy Day's essay first appeared on her blog, right here.
If you are in Central Florida on June 16th, come celebrate Bloomsday with us!
Book Fight's Exceedingly Accurate Blurb:
“The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life is a supernova, an interstellar jamboree of colors and lights, like the twirling dresses of a troupe of champion folk dancers, like being imprisoned in Ace Freeley’s amp, throbbing like the veins in Jehovah’s hard-on. You can look, but you can’t touch, and also, you can’t look, because if you do, you will turn to stone, and your guts will turn to marble.”
According to The Times, there was controversy over the spelling of the word that won the national spelling bee championship. Is this anti-semitic orthography?
On Episode 45 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, I talk to Richard Peabody, the editor of Gargoyle Magazine,
Plus Kirsten Holt reads a beautiful elegy.
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The music for Last Call was “Night Flight” by the band Carlton Melton.
On episode 43 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, I talk to the poet Lillian-Yvonne Bertram,
Episode 41 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
On this week’s show, I talk to the poet and teacher Emily Brandt,
Episode 33 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right here for download.
On this week’s show, I interview noted reviewer Chauncey Mabe,
Throughout February, Rollins College will be hosting its annual author series, Winter with the Writers.
Orlando Shakespeare Theatre presents Othello, now through March 16th.
Episode 33 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right here for download.
On this weeks show, I interview the ever-fabulous Francesca Lia Block,
Plus Lillian-Yvonne Bertram reads her poem, "You Can’t Outdrink The Moon, O Sestina, Sestina Who Has Been Drinking."
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On January 6th, Ashley Inguanta will perform her debut collection, The Way Home, with musicians Mandy Burgan and Benoit Glazer, and with dancer Christin Carlow. Find out more here.