The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
John King
Show overview
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life has been publishing since 2012, and across the 14 years since has built a catalogue of 734 episodes. That works out to roughly 860 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 58 min and 1h 20m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. The publisher flags most episodes as explicit, so expect adult themes or strong language throughout. It is catalogued as a EN-language Arts show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 5 days ago, with 28 episodes already out so far this year. Published by John King.
From the publisher
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.
Latest Episodes
View all 734 episodes725: Melissa Crowe
724: Kathy Fagan!
723: A Kerouac Project of Orlando Book Club Discussion of Gregory Corso's The Happy Birthday of Death, with Alex Gurtis!
722: Barbara Hamby!
721: A Secret DVD Commentary for Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive (with Chad Coup)!
720: A Discussion of Sylvia Plath's Ariel with Rachael Tillman
719: A Conversation about Tobe Hooper's Lifeforce (1985) with Shawn McKee!
718: Gilbert King, Plus Laura Lee Baher and Erik Deckers Event!
717: Bob Spitz!
716: The Kerouac Project of Orlando Book Club Discussion of William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch (with Matt Peters)!
715: Henry Hughes!
714: Lara Egger!
713: Dave Housley!
Episode 712: A Discussion of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, with Rachael Tillman!
711: A Discussion of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, with Sophia Ferrara!
710: A Discussion of William Harrison's Rollerball (with Sophia Ferrara)!
EIn #710, Sophia Ferrara returns to the secret HQ of TDO to chat about the dystopia of Rollerball, as imagined in the film and the short story, which was called "Roller Ball Murder." Jonathan E and his pal Moonpie turn out to be a threat to The Corporation while thriving in a technocratic bloodsport. Good times.
709: Philip Schultz!
EIn this week's show, John speaks with the poet Philip Schultz about his wonderful new poetry collection, Enormous Morning. We discuss the self-critical voices that Philip calls the shit-bird, how personas can empower us to become more of ourselves, and the ironies of finding gratitude in our depression in observing how the world tears itself apart.
708: Felicia Day!
EIn this week's show, John speaks with the writer and actor, Felicia Day about her extraordinary page-turner of a graphic novel, The Lost Daughter of Sparta. We discuss how to regulate our bodies as writers, how rich the literature of ancient myth absolutely still is, and how to read for audiobooks, since she has a wealth of acting experience and John doesn't.
707: Shawn Welcome!
EIn this week's show, the poet Shawn Welcome and I talk about how to love poetry, how to gather together our literary communities, and our beloved city of Orlando, Florida.
706: Richard Blanco!
EOn this week's program, I catch up with the amazing Richard Blanco about his recent collected poems, Homeland of my Body, a book sandwiched with two sections of exciting new work.