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

Episode 72: We Drink! On this week’s show, My friends Teege Braune of In Boozo Veritas fame, Matt Peters of Windward Press, and MFA candidate Diane Turgeon Richardson join me to discuss matters literary and drinkerly. Plus Dave Patterson writes about how Ray Bradbury's Farenheit 451 transformed him. TEXTS DISCUSSED Fahrenheit 451" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> NOTES Carlton Melton's song "Use Your Words" from their album Country Ways accompanied Dave Patterson's "A Pleasure to Burn." Laurie Anderson's Remembrance of Lou Reed appears in Rolling Stone. Teege Braune's eulogy for Lou Reed appeared in In Boozo Veritas #13. This weekend Playfest is happening at Orlando Shakespeare Theatre.

On this week’s show, I answer some mail with my friend, David James Poissant, Plus Dan Lauer writes about a unique book that changed his life. NOTES R.I.P., Oscar Hijuelos. 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. Orlando Shakespeare Theater presents Dracula: The Journal of Jonathan Harker, from October 9 – November 10, 2013.

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. TEXTS DISCUSSED Lungs Full of Noise (Iowa Short Fiction Award)" style="color: #2b6fb6; text-decoration: none;"> A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories" style="color: #2b6fb6; text-decoration: none;"> NOTES 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. Orlando Shakespeare Theater presents Dracula: The Journal of Jonathan Harker, from October 9 - November 10, 2013. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js56KlfJoGY The Drunken Odyssey's review of this production will appear next week.

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." TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES 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!

On this week’s show, I talk to the fiction writer Lindsay Hunter, Plus David Dadurka writes about Lewis Carroll. TEXTS DISCUSSED Don't Kiss Me" style="color: #2b6fb6; text-decoration: none;"> Daddy's" style="color: #2b6fb6; text-decoration: none;"> NOTES A North Carolina school board has voted to ban Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. 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. TEXTS DISCUSSED The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America" style="color: #2b6fb6; text-decoration: none;"> NOTES 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. --Brandon Behan. See my Pinupalooza photos here.

On this week’s show, I talk to three of the stars of Orlando Shakespeare Theatre's production of The Taming of the Shrew. Geoffrey Kent (Petruchio) And Deanna Gibson (Kate) John Ahlin (Baptista) And J. Bradley talks about being haunted by The Cure. TEXTS DISCUSSED Shakespeare Complete Works Compact Edition" style="color: #2b6fb6; text-decoration: none;"> NOTES OST's The Taming of the Shrew runs September 11th through October 6th. Get tickets here.

On this week’s show, I talk to the novelist Francesca Lia Block, Photo by Nicolas Sage Plus I share Alise Hamilton's essay about Francesca (originally from Ep. 7) TEXTS DISCUSSED Love in the Time of Global Warming" style="color: #2b6fb6; text-decoration: none;"> Girl Goddess #9 (94 Edition)" style="color: #2b6fb6; text-decoration: none;"> Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books (Weetzie Bat Books)" style="color: #2b6fb6; text-decoration: none;"> Empathy, Love and the LGBT Characters in my Books by Francesca Lia Block NOTES Posthumous novels by J. D. Salinger are forthcoming, possibly, maybe. Seamus Heaney has died. Special thanks to Doug Nevel!

On this week’s show, I talk to the poet Tim J. Myers, Plus Dan Lauer explains the impact Spalding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia had on him. TEXTS DISCUSSED Dear Beast Loveliness" style="color: #2b6fb6; text-decoration: none;"> Floyd: Susannah" style="color: #2b6fb6; text-decoration: none;"> Swimming To Cambodia" style="color: #2b6fb6; text-decoration: none;"> Impossible Vacation" style="color: #2b6fb6; text-decoration: none;"> The Heaven of Animals: Stories" style="color: #2b6fb6; text-decoration: none;"> NOTES Walter Pater: "All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music" (From The School of Giogione). Think about helping Beating Windward Press fund new art for its Doc Voodoo pulp fiction series. The swag is considerable, like this t-shirt.

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." TEXTS DISCUSSED Archy and Mehitabel" style="color: #2b6fb6; text-decoration: none;"> Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic" style="color: #2b6fb6; text-decoration: none;"> Hawkeye - Volume 1: My Life as a Weapon (Marvel Now) (Hawkeye)" style="color: #2b6fb6; text-decoration: none;"> The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)" style="color: #2b6fb6; text-decoration: none;"> NOTES • 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. Listen to their EP, Kill the Sexist. [youtube=http://youtu.be/Oxe3N43La7Q]

This week, I interview my friend, the fiction writer Chad Benson, who also happens to be a rock musician called Quinn W. Shagbark, plus Jesse Duthrie talks about John Barth's The Floating Opera. TEXTS DISCUSSED [vimeo http://vimeo.com/61609421] NOTES If you are writing in Denver, check out the Lighthouse Writer's Workshop. Read about Quinn W. Shagbark in Slate. On Tuesday, August 13th, at Urban ReThink in downtown Orlando, I will read with JOSEFINE KLOUGART, DAN LAUER, & DREW JOHNSON in Jesse Bradley’s series, There Will Be Words, which was just named the best reading series in Orlando by Orlando Weekly. Two days later, I will be reading an art-inspired piece in this event:

On Episode 60 of The Drunken Odyssey, I interview the Pulitzer Prize-winning non-fiction writer Gilbert King, Plus Monty Joynes discusses coming across Talks and Dialogues by J. Krishnamurti TEXTS DISCUSSED

Episode 59 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is here! On this week’s show, I talk to the fiction writer Alissa Nutting, Plus Graham Liddell talks about reading What is the What. TEXTS DISCUSSED Tampa" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"> Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"> What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"> NOTES Margaret Atwood has penned a libretto about the life of Pauline Johnson, according to The Guardian. Booksmatter has reposted Jonathan Lethem's essay "The Squandered Promise of Science Fiction."

On this week's show, I talk to the poet Philip Raisor, Plus Melissa Crandall brings us some Xmas in July! TEXTS DISCUSSED Swimming in the Shallow End" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Outside Shooter: A Memoir (Sports and American Culture Series)" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Tuned and Under Tension: The Recent Poetry of W.D. Snodgrass" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings (Penguin Hardcover Classics)" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">

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. BOOKS DISCUSSED I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Downtown Owl" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Nice Guys Finish Last" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> NOTES 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! The Drunken Odyssey Deeply Recommends 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. TEXTS DISCUSSED Check out Keith B. Harder's Children of Icarus series here. NOTES 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! NOTES 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. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES On June 22, The Drunken Odyssey will be here: • 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 talk once again to Nathan Holic, who first appeared on this show all the way back on episode 1, Plus Drew Perlmutter discusses the Cannes Film Festival, Plus Nicholas Brown discusses Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove. Texts Discussed American Fraternity Man" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Lonesome Dove" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> NOTES

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. Notes 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 this week’s show, I talk to the memoir writer David Sedaris, plus Pamela Skjolsvik discusses David Sedaris’s Me Talk Pretty One Day, and Adriana Lecuona writes about Ursula K. Le Guin's "Those Who Leave Omelas." Texts Discussed Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls Signed 1st Edition" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Me Talk Pretty One Day" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> The Unreal and the Real, Volume 2: Outer Space, Inner Lands: Selected Stories" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Notes David's inscription in my copy of Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim.

On this week’s show, I interview my friend, the poet Monica Wendel, who is in residency at The Kerouac House, Photo by Ashley Inguanta plus Chelsey Clammer writes about Marya Hornbacher’s Madness. Texts Discussed Notes Two great Orlando events are coming up this week: 1. On Wednesday, May 22, 7 PM, the fiction writer Colin Winnette will be reading in the sOFT eXPOSURE reading series. Get details here. 2. On Saturday, May 25th, please come to Monica’s farewell reading at The Kerouac House. Get details here. See the Glossary’s Film of David Foster Wallace’s This is Water.

Episode 48 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is here! On this week's show, I interview the fiction writer Dylan Landis plus the poet Eleanor Lerman writes about Leonard Cohen's Spice Box of Earth.

Episode 47 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is now available. This week, it's a great live event! Notes If you live in Central Florida, come to the next event in Jared Sylvia's Functionally Literate series, despite the fact that I am reading there.

Episode 45 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available. This week, I talk to the poet Terry Ann Thaxton, Plus Madison Bernath reviews 360 GLAZED DONUT VODKA! Texts Discussed 360 Vodka Glazed Donut 750ml" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Notes Madison's review of 360 Glazed Donut Vodka first appeared on McSweeney's Internet Tendency. Wikipedia decides that women aren't "American novelists," according to this Times story. I'll be reading with Philip Deaver, Monica Wendel, and Enid Schumer on May 11th at the Timucua Arts White House.

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. Texts Discussed Notes The music for Last Call was “Night Flight” by the band Carlton Melton. The 2013 Pulitzer Prize Winners.

Episode 44 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is npw available. This week, I talk to the poet and VIDA's co-founder Erin Belieau, Plus Julie Henderson discusses Clive Barker's The Thief of Always. Texts Discussed Notes Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s Titus Andronicus runs through April 28. Pablo Neruda's body is being exhumed, after his poetry was last month desecrated by a Kentucky Senator. Ireland mints a James Joyce coin. Textual scholars are already at work discrediting the text. Music for this week’s essay provided by Steven McClurg.

On episode 43 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, I talk to the poet Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Plus James Best discusses Gatsby. Texts Discussed Carlton Melton's Photos Of Photos" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">Photos of Photos. Photos Of Photos" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Notes Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s Titus Andronicus runs through April 28. Music for this week’s essay provided by Carlton Melton. Grrr: Amazon buys Goodreads.com. The Tequila Worms have generously offered their album Cantina as a free download.

Episode 42 is here. This week, I talk to Stephen Elliott and Isaac Fitzgerald of The Rumpus, plus Astrid Cooke writes about Stephen King's The Stand. Texts Discussed Happy Baby" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> About Cherry [Blu-ray]" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Isaac Fitzgerald's Why I Agreed to be a Bend-over Boyfriend. The Stand" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Things Fall Apart" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Notes Orlando Shakespeare Theater's Titus Andronicus runs through April 28. Music for this week's essay provided by Zelda Re-orchestrated. Chinua Achebe, Literary Titan, dies at 82.

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, Plus Denise Falcone talks about Nabokov's Ada. Texts Discussed The Inside Colocation blog. Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> I love the ad-free dictionary aggregator, wordnik. The New Yorker Rejects Itself.

On episode 40, I talk to the poet Tony Hoagland, Plus Bob Lamb Explains How Ernest Hemingway saved him from Rendition. Texts Discussed Sweet Ruin (Brittingham Prize in Poetry)" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> What Narcissism Means to Me: Poems" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty: Poems" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Stupid Hope: Poems" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Show Notes This episode begins with a limerick written and read by Chris Booth, in honor of our pal Steve Kelly: Just a few, and Steve's eyes 'gan to wander; Then day next he was mute and a-ponder: When he saw where he woke, In sad tones, thus he spoke: "It's Absinthe makes the heart to grow fonder."

Episode 39 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is now available. On this week’s show, I talk to Rick Moody, James Best explains why he isn't afraid of sharks, Plus I talk to the playwright and actor Charlie Bethel about his current one man show of The Odyssey. Texts Discussed On Celestial Music: And Other Adventures in Listening" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> The Four Fingers of Death: A Novel" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Demonology: Stories" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven : A Novella and Stories" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Notes The Drunken Odyssey will be making a pub crawl in Boston this Friday.

On this week’s show, I talk to the fiction writer Matthew Pitt, plus Pamela Skjolsvik discusses David Sedaris’s Me Talk Pretty One Day. Texts Discussed Ishmael Reed’s WSJ blog about Django Unchained. Kirtsen Holt’s new poem, Taxonomy. Richie Havens’s “Freedom” Notes: Orlando Shakespeare Theatre presents Othello, now through March 16th.

On this week’s show, I talk to the poet Steve Davenport, Joe Conley plums Cormac McCarthy's Child of God, Plus I answer some mail... Texts Discussed: Uncontainable Noise" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Child of God" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Laurence Sterne And the Visual Imagination" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"> Notes: Orlando Shakespeare Theatre presents Othello, now through March 16th. Throughout February, Rollins College will be hosting its annual author series, Winter with the Writers.

On this week’s show, The Drunken Odyssey All-Stars & I get erotic, poetically speaking... Here are the ancestral German kissing dolls shown off by Lisa Claire Roney on the show! The Drunken Odyssey All-Stars ______________________________ Vanessa Blakeslee Tod Caviness Genevieve Tyrrell Anna King Ryan Rivas Kirsten Holt Susan Lilley Plus A letter from James Best, A limerick from Christopher Booth, and show & tell with Lisa Claire Roney!

Episode 35 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available. On this week’s show, I talk with my friend Philip F. Deaver, who happens to have won a Flannery O'Conner Award, plus Helena-Anne Htittel discusses Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner. Texts Discussed: Notes Throughout February, Rollins College will be hosting its annual author series, Winter with the Writers. Orlando Shakespeare Theatre presents Othello, now through March 16th. Get the Groupon here. In other Shakespeare news, Richard III's remains were found underneath a parking lot. I'm not making this up--it's in The Times.

Episode 34 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is here! On this week’s show, I talk Shakespeare with Stephen Burdman, the artistic director of New York Classical Theatre, Plus Bronte Bettencourt talks about Lestat. Texts Discussed: Hamlet" style="color: #990000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.8; text-decoration: none;"> Notes Laurence Olivier's screenplay adaptation of his never-filmed Macbeth has been found, according to The Guardian. Barnes and Noble will be closing 20 stores a year for the next decade, according to The Wall Street Journal.

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, Plus Adam Soldolfsky reads from Panorama-orama. Notes Chauncey Mabe's now defunct but still evergreen blog for the Florida Center for the Literary Arts. Amazon cannot underprice books in France, as reported in The New York Times. Books and Books, the best independent in South Florida. Orlando Cultural Events This week, the Zora Neale Hurston Festival is underway. Attend The Drunken Odyssey's Evening of Erotic Poetry on February 8th. 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.

Episode 32 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is now available. On this week’s show, I interview novelist Terry Cronin, And Jean Davis offers one amazing essay about Write is a Verb. Texts Discussed The Skinvestigator: Tramp Stamp (Sunshine State Trilogy)" style="color: #990000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.8; text-decoration: none;"> The Skinvestigator: Rash Guard (The Sunshine State Trilogy)" style="color: #990000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.8; text-decoration: none;"> The Skinvestigator: Sunburn" style="color: #990000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.8; text-decoration: none;"> Write Is a Verb: Sit Down, Start Writing, No Excuses" style="color: #990000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.8; text-decoration: none;"> Notes Susan Lilley will be reading from her new book of poems, Satellite Beach, on Thursday, January 24th, at Rollins College. For more info, click here. Show contributor Alise Hamilton (episode 7) discusses bingers and plodders, and the merits of the former as writers, at Bill and Dave's Cocktail Hour. A history of the Coppertone sign.

On this week's show, I interview novelist Grant Ginder, Plus Tim J. Myers discusses Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, Texts Discussed Driver's Education: A Novel" style="color: #990000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.8; text-decoration: none;"> This Is How It Starts: A Novel" style="color: #990000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.8; text-decoration: none;"> Notes The Drunken Odyssey has its first video posting! Presenting Martin Amis at Miami Bookfair International (the video version of episode 26). vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/57195594 w=500&h=333

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." Texts Discussed The Elementals" style="color: #990000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.8; text-decoration: none;"> But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise" style="color: #990000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.8; text-decoration: none;"> Crazy Clown Time" style="color: #990000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.8; text-decoration: none;"> Notes 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. The greatest new trend in libraries. Matt Taibbi's Readers' list of 10 most pretentious moments in history. James Franco is, umm, a poet. [Guardian] [The New York Times]

The Drunken Odyssey Xmas Party features original works by Ashley Inguanta Jamie Poissant Lisa Claire Roney Steph Jurusz Anna King Olivia Kate Cerrone and John King. It took place on Thursday, December 13th, 7 P.M. at Urban Re-Think 625 E Central Blvd Orlando, FL, 32801.

On this week's show, I talk to the graphic novelist J. T. Waldman, plus Elizabeth Sauchelli discusses Star Girl.

On this week’s show, I talk to fiction writer and Southern Review co-editor, Cara Blue Adams! Plus jazz poetry by Richard Negri! Plus I answer the mail!

Episode 26 of The Drunken Odyssey features the Martin Amis event at Miami Book Fair International, November 17, 2012.

In this week's show, I report on Miami Book Fair International, where I interviewed Martin Amis, Irvine Welsh, and Bunny Yeager.

On this week’s show, I talk to humorist Jason Roeder, Plus Stephen McClurg writes about Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends.

On Episode 23, I talk to Lissette Mendez of Miami Book Fair International and the novelist Darin Strauss, plus Sarah Blakeley discusses Laura Ingalls Wilder, and then I answer some mail.