708: Felicia Day!
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
Release Date: 03/21/2026
713: Dave Housley!
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
In this week’s episode, John speaks with fiction writer and editor Dave Housley about the joys of using writing prompts, the problem-solving of writing meaningfully improbable stories inspired by pop culture, and the limits of post-modern irony. His newest books is , now out with Mason Jar Press.
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Episode 712: A Discussion of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, with Rachael Tillman!
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
In this week's show, Rachael Tillman and I discuss The Bell Jar, in part 3 of our series on Sylvia Plath. If you are keen, check out the previous installments: episodes (The Colossus and Other Poems) and (Emily Van Duyne's Loving Sylvia Plath).
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711: A Discussion of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, with Sophia Ferrara!
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
Sophia Ferrara returns to the secret HQ of TDO to chat about the pleasure-filled dystopia of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, while John freaks out about the novel's structure or lack thereof.
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710: A Discussion of William Harrison's Rollerball (with Sophia Ferrara)!
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
In #710, Sophia Ferrara returns to the secret HQ of TDO to chat about the dystopia of Rollerball, as imagined in the film and the short story, which was called "Roller Ball Murder." Jonathan E and his pal Moonpie turn out to be a threat to The Corporation while thriving in a technocratic bloodsport. Good times.
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709: Philip Schultz!
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
In this week’s show, John speaks with the poet Philip Schultz about his wonderful new poetry collection, Enormous Morning. We discuss the self-critical voices that Philip calls the shit-bird, how personas can empower us to become more of ourselves, and the ironies of finding gratitude in our depression in observing how the world tears itself apart.
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708: Felicia Day!
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
In this week’s show, John speaks with the writer and actor, Felicia Day about her extraordinary page-turner of a graphic novel, The Lost Daughter of Sparta. We discuss how to regulate our bodies as writers, how rich the literature of ancient myth absolutely still is, and how to read for audiobooks, since she has a wealth of acting experience and John doesn't.
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707: Shawn Welcome!
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
In this week’s show, the poet Shawn Welcome and I talk about how to love poetry, how to gather together our literary communities, and our beloved city of Orlando, Florida.
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706: Richard Blanco!
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
On this week’s program, I catch up with the amazing Richard Blanco about his recent collected poems, Homeland of my Body, a book sandwiched with two sections of exciting new work.
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705: Mamie Pound!
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
On this week’s program, I talk to Mamie Pound about how flash fiction works, poetry, and finding the authentic, messy, true emotion and understanding despite the editors in our brains.
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704: Elliot Ackerman
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
On this week’s program, I talk to Elliot Ackerman about his new novel, Sheepdogs, a hell of a military caper story.
info_outlineIn this week’s show, John speaks with the writer and actor, Felicia Day about her extraordinary page-turner of a graphic novel, The Lost Daughter of Sparta. We discuss how to regulate our bodies as writers, how rich the literature of ancient myth absolutely still is, and how to read for audiobooks, since she has a wealth of acting experience and John doesn't.