The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Join author John King for eclectic interviews with writers from a variety of genres, including fiction writing, poetry, memoirs, and journalism. From literature to genre writing to the movies, all writing is up for discussion. In particular, The Drunken Odyssey features discussion of all aspects of the writing process—not just the published manuscript, pristinely presented to the entire literate world, but also the scrawled notes and tortured drafts that lead writers there. In long-form interviews, writers discuss their process and the way that writing has influenced their lives. Besides this interview, each episode also features a short memoir essay from a writer about a beloved book, plus John King responds to listener’s questions and observations about the writing (and the drinking) life. For more information, see our website at www.thedrunkenodyssey.com.
Location:
United States
Genres:
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Description:
Join author John King for eclectic interviews with writers from a variety of genres, including fiction writing, poetry, memoirs, and journalism. From literature to genre writing to the movies, all writing is up for discussion. In particular, The Drunken Odyssey features discussion of all aspects of the writing process—not just the published manuscript, pristinely presented to the entire literate world, but also the scrawled notes and tortured drafts that lead writers there. In long-form interviews, writers discuss their process and the way that writing has influenced their lives. Besides this interview, each episode also features a short memoir essay from a writer about a beloved book, plus John King responds to listener’s questions and observations about the writing (and the drinking) life. For more information, see our website at www.thedrunkenodyssey.com.
Language:
English
Website:
http://thedrunkenodyssey.com
Episodes
Replay: Episode 278 with Brittany Perham
5/11/2024
Thanks to Brian Salmons for bumpering this replay episode.
Duration:01:10:57
623: Nicholson Baker!
5/4/2024
In this week’s show, John talks with Nicholson Baker about the potential sorrows of writing, the drive to discover joy, and the need to explore other creative endeavors besides writing.
Duration:00:54:02
622: Michael Korda!
4/28/2024
In this week’s show, John talks with prose writer Michael Korda about telling the historical stories of the poets of World War I.
Duration:00:49:47
621: Tyler Mills!
4/20/2024
In this week’s show, John talks with Tyler Mills about her extraordinary multimedia memoir, a poetic people’s history of America’s secretive relationship to the atomic bomb.
Duration:00:59:18
620: A Discussion of Asteroid City, with Jared Silvia!
4/13/2024
In this week’s show, John talks with Jared Silvia about the 2023 film, Asteroid City, and look at how Wes Anderson and co-writer Roman Coppola counterbalances surges of emotion with layers of artifice, which is a mixed metaphor, we know.
Duration:01:05:42
619: Jessie Ren Marshall!
4/6/2024
In this week’s show, John talks with Jessie Red Marshall about her extraordinary short story collection, Women! In! Peril! The topics discussed include how story collections are like mixtapes, how thematic unity occurs brilliantly by accident, and how the interesting questions to ask ourselves in writing fiction is often what about ourselves, as writers, is problematic to ourselves.
Duration:01:21:24
618: A Book Discussion of Kenneth Patchen's Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer, with Nick Georgoudiou!
3/30/2024
In this week’s show, John and Nick Georgoudiou discuss Kenneth Patchen's surreal postmodern novel, Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer, before a small crowd gathered at the Kerouac Project of Orlando.
Duration:00:45:06
617: Marie Mutsuki Mockett!
3/23/2024
In this week’s show, John talks to Marie Mutsuki Mockett about her exquisite new novel, The Tree Doctor, which leads us to the topics of Japanese literature, The Tale of Genji, and how the ancient world is surprisingly like our own.
Duration:00:51:32
616: A Book Discussion of George Saunders's A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, with Rachael Tillman!
3/16/2024
On today's show, Rachael and I discuss George Saunders's discussion of seven short stories by Russian authors. Since Saunders's book is the result of teaching these stories in MFA craft courses over multiple decades, this book and today's discussion simulates an important part of the MFA experience, for those who wonder what that might be like.
The stories:
Duration:01:47:54
615: Diane Seuss!
3/9/2024
This ep. features a conversation with Pulitzer prize-winning poet Diane Seuss about her latest book of verse, Modern Poetry. With bursts of internal rhyme about thorny subjects, Modern Poetry awaits the reader with a spirit of mourning and loss and self-creation, which is, for this reader anyway, joyous.
Duration:01:17:27
Replay: Episode 570 with Kathleen Rooney
3/2/2024
Thanks to Brian Salmons for bumpering this replay episode.
Duration:00:50:51
614: Celeste Ng & Ben Fountain, interviewed by Samantha Nickerson!
2/24/2024
On today’s show, Samantha Nickerson interviews the fiction writers Celeste Ng and Ben Fountain!
Duration:00:58:58
613: Jamel Brinkley and M. Evelina Galang!
2/17/2024
On #613, Chelsea Alice speaks with Jamel Brinkley about his new short story collection Witness, plus John King speaks with M. Evelina Galang about her new short story collection, When the Hibiscus Falls. Special Thanks to Miami Book Fair.
Duration:00:53:51
612: A Discussion of Anaïs Nin's Little Birds, with Samantha Nickerson
2/10/2024
Samantha Nickerson and I delve into Anaïs Nin's posthumously published slender volume of erotica, Little Birds.
Duration:00:56:00
611: Matt Mason!
1/27/2024
On today’s show, John King chats with poet Matt Mason about the poetic necessity of engaging with the popular culture that is part of the fabric of our American life, including rock music and obviously, obviously, the Disney phenomenon.
Duration:00:56:14
610: Rebecca Renner & Major Jackson!
1/19/2024
On today’s show, John King chats with journalist Rebecca Renner and poet Major Jackson at Miami Book Fair.
Duration:00:55:49
609: Meg Cabot & Kelle Groom, interviewed by Samantha Nickerson!
1/13/2024
Today’s show features novelist Meg Cabot and memoirist Kelle Groom in conversation with TDO correspondent Samantha Nickerson, recorded during Miami Book Fair 2023.
Duration:00:54:52
608: Maggie Smith and Michael Cunningham!
1/6/2024
On today's show, John talks to the poet and memoirist Maggie Smith about the complexities of trying to merge reality with narrative structure, and discusses the same, in different ways, with the novelist Michael Cunningham!
Duration:00:58:32
607: Brian Turner!
12/30/2023
On today’s show, John talks poet Brian Turner about learning to write the thing we need to write rather than the thing we want to write, the long conversations we have with those we love, and the processes of nature, including grief. His trio of new poetry volumes is out now from Alice James Books.
Duration:01:08:18
606: Felicia Day!
12/23/2023
On today’s show, John talks to author, actor, and producer Felicia Day about her new audiobook masterpiece, Third Eye, which is a hysterically funny fantasy epic that deep down has heart. Nerd culture, self-discovery, and creative writing are discussed at length.
Duration:00:46:19