663: A Discussion of Bill Knott's Corpse and Beans, with Rachael Tillman.
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
Release Date: 03/08/2025
676: Skye Jackson!
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
On this episode, John speaks with Kerouac Project of Orlando resident Skye Jackson about how to create a poetry collection that can be read in one sitting, how to balance the concrete and imaginative abstraction, inviting the audience in, recording a poetry audiobook, ekphrastic poetry, and living in New Orleans.
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675: Tom McAllister!
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
On this episode, John speaks with Tom McAllister about writing burnout, writing prompts, revision, and discovery, as well as Tom's wonderful new collection of flash memoirs, It All Felt Impossible.
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Replay: Episode 130 with Jaquira Díaz
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
In this week’s replay episode, John talks to author and editor Jaquira Díaz in a show dating back to 2014. Many thanks to Brian Salmons.
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674: Peter Kuper!
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
On today’s art-infused program, Drew Barth speaks with comic book legend Peter Kuper about his wonderful new book, Insectopolis, a project created during Peter’s residency at the NY Public Library, plus I briefly speak with my friend, the artist Jeff Wilfong, about his upcoming residency at the Timucua Arts Foundation here in Orlando.
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673: A Discussion of William S. Burroughs's Junky, with Matt Peters!
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
This episode is a recording of the inaugural meeting of the Kerouac Project of Orlando's Book Club. Matt Peters and I discuss William S. Burroughs's debut novel, Junky, and its place in the first quartet of his transformative works. The setting for this conversation is the place where Jack Kerouac lived when On the Road came out, where he lived when writing the first draft of The Dharma Bums.
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672: Dan Reiter Event!
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
Dan Reiter reads from his new book, On a Rising Swell: Surf Stories from the Space Coast, with the jazz piano accompaniment of Daniel Tenbusch, touching the bohemian spirit of Jack Kerouac, who wrote the first draft of The Darma Bums at that very venue. John and Dan share notes about the writing life, the freedom of constraints, the careers of Joan Didion, Jack Kerouac, and Hunter S. Thompson, and physical transcendence—with the occasional contribution from Dr. Truth.
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671: Dmetri Kakmi!
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
On this show, John speaks with Dmetri Kakmi about holding onto the mysteries of storytelling, the setting of Australia, the wild problem of self, and his wonderful new novel, The Woman in the Well.
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670: A Discussion of the Ewoks Trilogy, with Jeff Shuster!
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
After taking a year off to recover, Jeff Shuster return again for a May the 4th episode of The Drunken Odyssey, in which we discuss the seldom-discussed Ewoks trilogy. As a result, we might never have another May the 4th conversation. But the conversation was lively.
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669: Shelley Fisher Fishkin
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
On this show, John speaks with the literary scholar, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, who writes lucidly about classic American fiction in readable, important, and enjoyable prose. One of Dr. Fishkin's areas of expertise is Mark Twain. Her new book is Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn's Comrade.
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Replay Episode: Tessa Mellas (Episode 70, from 2013)
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
While John attempts his convalence from his contempible cold, here is a replay of a classic episode from 2013 with the fiction writer Tessa Mellas.
info_outline0On #633, Rachael Tillman and I discuss the surreal paradoxes and sullen joys of Bill Knott's debut collection of poetry, The Naomi Poems: Corpse and Beans, which was recently reprinted by Black Ocean Press.