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
Release Date: 10/11/2025
701: Greg Proops!
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
In this week's show, I speak with the comedian Greg Proops about comedy writing, comedy performance, improv, politics, film, and more.
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700: Chuck Klosterman!
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
On #700, John speaks with the underrated novelist and essay writer Chuck Klosterman about his wickedly funny and ever-insightful new book called Football. They also speak about post-modernism and humor and how audiences perplexingly invert their expectations about reality when reading fiction and non-fiction. John perhaps goes on a rant about the 1985 New England loss in the Super Bowl.
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699: Aymann Ismail!
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
On this episode, Samantha Nickerson interviews the journalist and memoirist about his new book, Becoming Baba: Fatherhood, Faith, and Finding Meaning in America.
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698: 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.
info_outlineOn 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.