667: Samantha Nickerson interviews Sally Wen Mao and Susan Mauddi Darraj
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
Release Date: 04/05/2025
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.
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668: Margie Sarsfield
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
In Margie Sarsfield’s debut novel, Beta Vulgaris, a hipster Brooklyn couple take on temporary work at a Minnesota beet farm at harvest time in order to earn extra money to help them maintain their Brooklyn lifestyle. Elise, the protagonist, who suffers from anxiety that she is no longer medicated for, notices that her fellow workers disappear, either because the work is too difficult or else other mysterious reasons. Elise’s experience becomes more anguishing when her boyfriend also disappears, and then the beets start materializing around her wherever she goes, and the beets gradually...
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667: Samantha Nickerson interviews Sally Wen Mao and Susan Mauddi Darraj
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
On this show, correspondent Samantha Nickerson speaks with Sally Wen Mao about her story collection, Ninetails, plus Samantha speaks with Susan Mauddi Darraj about her new novel, Behind You Is The Sea.
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666: A Discussion of David Lynch's Ronnie Rocket, with Stephen McClurg!
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
In 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.
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665: Jaydra Johnson!
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
In this week's show, John speaks with Jaydra Johnson about her new book, Low: Notes on Art and Trash, and the tensions and connections between class perception, politics, and creation of art.
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664: Rigoberto Gonzales & Richard Blanco!
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
On today’s show, I speak with the poet and editor Rigoberto Gonzales about the curation of the Library of America anthology of Latino Poetry. Then Richard Blanco reads "Como Tú," his poem that is collected in that anthology, and he and I catch up a little bit.
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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
0On #633, Rachael Tillman and I discuss the surreal paradoxes and sullen joys of Bill Knott's debut collection of poetry, , which was recently reprinted by Black Ocean Press.
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662: Rufi Thorpe & Susan Minot (Interviewed by Samantha Nickerson)
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
On 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.
info_outlineOn this show, correspondent Samantha Nickerson speaks with Sally Wen Mao about her story collection, Ninetails, plus Samantha speaks with Susan Mauddi Darraj about her new novel, Behind You Is The Sea.