Episode 370: A Discussion of Cory Doctorow’s Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

08 Saturday Jun 2019

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Episode 370 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

This week, we go to Walt Disney World with Nathan Holic and David James Poissant in order to discuss Cory Doctorow’s science fiction novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

Nathan Holic, John King, and David James Poissant. Photograph by Nathan Holic.

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This episode is sponsored by Scribophile.

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Check out Nathan Holic and I discussing Stanly Elkin’s The Magic Kingdom in episode 267.

Check out my interview with Cory Doctorow back on episode 184.

Check out these wonderful books by today’s guests.

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Episode 369: Deborah Landau!

01 Saturday Jun 2019

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Episode 369 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 the poet Deborah Landau about her wonderful new poetry collection, Soft Targets,

Deborah Landau reading at AWP 2019. Photo by John King.

plus I share Copper Canyon’s poetry reading from the 2019 AWP Conference, which featured Javier Zamora, Ellen Bass, Deborah Landau, and Jericho Brown.

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Like A Beggar

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This episode is sponsored by Scribophile.

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Check out my adventure novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

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Episode 368: Mitchell S. Jackson!

26 Sunday May 2019

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In this week’s episode, I talk to Mitchell S. Jackson about finding joy in voice while dwelling on painful material in a memoir and novel.

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Mitchell S. Jackson by John Ricard.

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$Survival Math$

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This episode is sponsored by Scribophile.

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.

Episode 368 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 367: A Discussion of Eudora Welty’s “Place in Fiction” with Vanessa Blakesklee!

19 Sunday May 2019

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Episode 367 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, Vanessa Blakeslee and I discuss Eudora Welty’s “Place in Fiction” (1955).

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The Eye of the Story

NOTES

This episode is sponsored by Scribophile.

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.

Check out my adventure novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

And check out Vanessa’s books, too.

Episode 367 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 366: Mixtape #10: Purple Caverns of Shattered Memories

11 Saturday May 2019

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Episode 366 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 share my first mixtape in almost 2 years.

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Happy writing. Let me know what you think below.

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Please buy me.

Episode 366 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 365: Campbell McGrath!

04 Saturday May 2019

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In this week’s episode, I talk with poet Campbell McGrath about his his new book, Nouns & Verbs, from a luminous lobby in Portland.

Photo by Freesia McKee.

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Check out my previous interview with Campbell from 3 years ago, back on episode 203.

If a literary adventure might be your jam, please consider buying my exciting new novel.

Episode 365 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 364: Elisa Gabbert!

27 Saturday Apr 2019

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Episode 364 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 with poet and essayist Elisa Gabbert about the excitement of short-form essays, the glories of book design, not reading Moby Dick, and other literary confessions.

Photo by John King

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If you are into literary adventure stories, please pick up a copy of my debut novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

Episode 364 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 363: John King?

20 Saturday Apr 2019

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Episode 363 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, David James Poissant turns the tables on John King and interviews him about the miraculous release of his epic novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

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Here is the original Guy Psycho short story.

Episode 363 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 362: Whither, Life Balance? (An AWP Panel)

13 Saturday Apr 2019

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Episode 362 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, Chelsey Clammer, David James Poissant, Rion Amalcar Scott, and I discuss how to survive in the writing life before an AWP audience in Portland, Oregon.

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Chelsey Clammer

David James Poissant

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If you are anywhere near Miami, check out the O, Miami Poetry Festival.

Please review this show on iTunes.

My novel comes out next week.

Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame

Episode 362 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

What are your tips for gaining efficiency with your time?

Episode 361: Sara Batkie!

06 Saturday Apr 2019

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Episode 361 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 go back to Jack Kerouac’s house to talk to fellow fiction writer and NYU alum Sara Batkie about Realism, Magic Realism, historical fiction, the composition of a story collection, NYU’s MFA program, the upsides of reading for literary magazines, and our evolutions as writers.

Sara Batkie

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Episode 361 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.