666: A Discussion of David Lynch's Ronnie Rocket, with Stephen McClurg!
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
Release Date: 03/29/2025
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.
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688: Schloctoberfest 2025 #3: A Discussion of Seconds, with Jeff Shuster
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
This time around, Jeff Shuster and John discuss John Frankenheimer's thriller Seconds from 1966.
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687: Schloctoberfest 2025 #2: A Discussion of The Sword of Doom, with Jeff Shuster!
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
On this week’s show, Jeff Shuster and John King delve into an existentially strange antihero story that feels a bit crazy and not entirely complete.
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686: Schloctoberfest 2025 #1: A Discussion of Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! with Jeff Shuster
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
In October, The Drunken Odyssey crams Literature aside to consider wild, dark fun cinema with our curator of Schlock, Jeff Shuster! This year, John and Jeff discuss 4 black-and-white films from the 1960s. First up is this chili pepper of a film that arose the year before the Summer of Love.
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685: A Discussion of Sylvia Plath's The Colossus and Other Poems (with Rachael Tillman)
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
Sylvia Plath is legendary for being a tragic poet mostly known for her novel, The Bell Jar. John and Rachael are fans of Plath's poetry and The Bell Jar, but hereby set out on a historical project to read Plath's work as the world would have known it first, and as she would have known it herself, without the legend imposing its darkest meanings onto every possible opportunity.
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684: A Pop Poetry Conversation about Megan Fox's Pretty Boys are Poisonous
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
This conversation with Samantha Nickerson, Brian Salmans, and Rachael Tillman will give you some idea of the mischief you are missing out on, and the pain John is putting himself through.
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683: Eugenio Negro!
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
This week, John speaks with the fiction writer, , and musician Eugenio Negro about his new novel, Despair Priorities, the long term project, and figuring out what will be deeply satisfying as a writer and reader.
info_outlineIn honor of the passing of David Lynch, John and Stephen McClurg discuss the peculiar mysteries of a screenplay for a legendary project that was never made, Ronnie Rocket.