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Episode 552: A Celebration of Salman Rushdie and Miami Book Fair!

18 Friday Nov 2022

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Episode 552 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

On this week’s program, I talk to Chelsea Alice about Salman Rushdie’s playful parable from 2020, “The Old Man in the Piazza,” published in The New Yorker, plus I share Salman Rushdie’s 2017 event from Miami Book Fair, in which he reads from his novel, The Golden House.

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A link to “The Old Man in the Piazza” is here.

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Episode 550: Jonathan Ames!

05 Saturday Nov 2022

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Episode 550 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

On this week’s program, I talk to the fiction writer and former memoirist Jonathan Ames.

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TDO listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to register for a basic account, go here while still logged in to upgrade the account with the discount.

This episode is released in association with Miami Book Fair.



If you are an amazon customer, one way to support this show is to begin shopping with this affiliate link, so that the podcast is granted a small commission on anything you purchase at no additional cost to yourself.

Check out Episode 312, in which I interviewed Gerald Stern.

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Episode 550 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 541: Marie Myung-Ok Lee!

19 Monday Sep 2022

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Episode 541 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

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This week, Samantha Nickerson speaks with novelist Marie Myung-Ok Lee about the musicality of novel-writing, and discovering the shape a novel requires despite one’s intentions.

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Check out Building Stepford Wives, a fun online resource that dives into this classic work by Ira Levin.

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Episode 541 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

Episode 538: A Discussion of John Bois’s “17776” with Chelsea Alice!

28 Sunday Aug 2022

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This week, the brilliant Chelsea Alice & I discuss John Bois’s postmodern masterpiece, “17776,” which is partially about what football will look like in the time of the singularity. Probably no other fiction has made such utility out of the resources and mechanics of the internet for a reading experience.

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Episode 532: Miranda Seymour!

16 Saturday Jul 2022

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Episode 532 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

This week, I speak with literary biographer Miranda Seymour about the extraordinary career of Jean Rhys.

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Episode 532 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

Episode 529: Kathryn Harlan!

25 Saturday Jun 2022

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Episode 529 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

On this episode, I speak with fiction writer Kathryn Harlan about her debut collection, Fruiting Bodies.

Photo by Dale Robinette.

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Episode 524: Yeoh Jo-Ann!

21 Saturday May 2022

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Episode 524 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

In this week’s episode, I talk to Yeoh Jo-Ann, the spring 2022 resident of the Kerouac Project of Orlando, about her novel, Impractical Uses of Cake, proper otter behavior, the role of agency in happiness, cat envy, teaching Shakespeare to teenagers, and the small ways teachers entertain themselves every day.

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Yeoh Jo-Ann reads from a work-in-progress at The Kerouac Project of Orlando.

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Watch Yeoh Jo-Ann’s reading at the end of her Kerouac Project residency.

Episode 524 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 521: Nita Noveno!

30 Saturday Apr 2022

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Episode 521 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

In this week’s show, I speak with the creative nonfiction writer Nita Noveno about the Peace Corps, having a writing community, the Kerouac House, gators, gators, and more gators, and bears, and all of Florida’s wild charms, including the people.

John King & Nita Noveno on the porch at the Kerouac Project of Orlando.

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Episode 521 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

Episode 516: A Discussion of Sally Rooney’s Novels, with Rachael Tillman!

26 Saturday Mar 2022

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Episode 516 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

In this week’s show, Rachel Tillman and I discuss the novels of Sally Rooney.

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The Kerouac Project of Orlando is open for applications for its residency program until April 17th.

Watch the farewell reading video of The Kerouac Project’s latest resident.

Episode 516 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

Episode 512: Lan Samantha Chang!

26 Saturday Feb 2022

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Episode 512 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

In this week’s show, I talk to Lan Samantha Chan about writing a novel over a long period of time, learning and teaching at the Iowa Writers Workshop, the value of writing communities, and balancing teaching, administrative work, and writing.

Photo by IfeOluwa Nihinlola.

Plus I chat with my dear friend Christopher Booth, who now lives in France.


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ScribophileTDO listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to register for a basic account, go here while still logged in to upgrade the account with the discount.

The Kerouac Project of Orlando is open for applications for its residency program.

Episode 512 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).