662: Rufi Thorpe & Susan Minot (Interviewed by Samantha Nickerson)
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
Release Date: 03/01/2025
598: Descartes a Kant!
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
On this episode, John interviews the rock band Descartes a Kant about the creation of exciting twenty-first century theatrical rock and roll. Listen to & buy .
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697: Todd James Pierce!
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
Here John speaks with his friend Todd James Pierce about his research process, his work on Disney artist Mary Blair, and Todd's wonderful new book, Making Mary Poppins, now out with Norton.
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696: The Kerouac Project of Orlando Book Club Discussion of William S. Burroughs’s Interzone (with Matt Peters)!
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
On this show, John and Matt Peters continue The Kerouac Project Book Club with a discussion of William S. Burrough’s third fiction manuscript, Interzone, the cliff before one arrives at Naked Lunch.
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695: Loose Lips December 2025!
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
The Drunken Odyssey commandeered the Loose Lips oratory series during the tidings of yule and whatnot on December 2, 2025. The readers included Fred Lambert, Rachael Tillman and her deadly horsemen Shawn McKee, Samantha Nickerson, and that rapscallion John King.
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694: Anne Waldman!
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
In this week's show, John interviews the poet Anne Waldman about her extraordinary new work, Mesopotopia.
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693: Emily Van Duyne
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
Emily Van Duyne discusses her remarkable tome of scholarship on Sylvia Plath, including a literary history of how Plath’s legacy has been shaped. Emily also guides Rachael and John’s attempts to de-Hughes-ify the available texts.
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692: November 22, 2025 (Fire x Fire x Fire with Dianne Turgeon Richardson and Tod Caviness!)
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
John concocted a daft poetry game for friends with a body of work substantial enough to withstand randomization of theme and topic 'til our drunken voices and ears escape beyond the hurly-burly of the everyday and enter the ethereal mindscape of friendship. Here is one's nights Fire x Fire x Fire for your listening pleasure, featuring the verses of Dianne Turgeon Richardson and Tod Caviness.
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691: AJ Rodriguez!
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
On this week’s show, John speaks with fiction writer A.J. Rodriguez, the June-July 2025 Kerouac Project of Orlando resident.
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690: Ivonne Lamazares!
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
On this week's show, John speaks with Ivonne Lamazares about her new novel, The Tilting House.
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689: Schloctoberfest 2025 #4: A Discussion of Night of the Living Dead, with Jeff Shuster
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
At the end of Schloctoberfest 2025, Jeff Shuster and I discuss the 1968 horror masterpiece Night of the Living Dead because how could we not? Our foray into 1960s black and white films is now ended.
info_outlineOn today’s episode, Samantha Nickerson speaks with fiction writer Rufi Thorpe about her striking novel Margo's Got Money Problems. In this episode, you learn about more than just Margo's money problems. Samantha and Rufi discuss Only Fans, wrestling, creating characters, and motherhood’s thorny identity. Samantha then speaks to Susan My-Nutt about erotic obsession, alienation, hyper-thinking, and the presentation of dialogue without quotation marks as they appear in her new novel, Don’t Be a Stranger.