Episode 392: Jonathan Small!

09 Saturday Nov 2019

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Episode 392 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 episode, I talk with podcaster, editor, journalist, and journeyman writer Jonathan Small about how to build a career as a writer who gets paid and merges into the cultural styles of the magazines one writes for.

Jonathan Small

Check out Jonathan’s excellent podcast, Write About Now.

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This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at 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.

Please check out my Indiegogo campaign to help get me down to Miami for Miami Book Fair International this year. T-shirts will be available.

Video Essay: Reasons to be Excited by the Walt Disney World Skyliner!

12 Sunday May 2019

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Dear readers

Some of you know about my Disneyphilia. Here is a video essay I created about the skyline transportation system, which should change the way people get around two of the theme parks and four hotels.

Selah,
John King

Episode 351: Elliot Ackerman!

26 Saturday Jan 2019

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Craft of Fiction Writing, Episode, Journalism, War

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Dark at the Crossing, Elliot Ackerman, Green on Blue, Waiting for Eden

Episode 351of 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 speak with the war veteran, journalist, and novelist Elliot Ackerman about composition and revision strategies, and the emotional access points from our own experience to the stories we tell.

Photo by Huger Foote.

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Episode 351of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 294: Ben Blum!

30 Saturday Dec 2017

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A Story of Soldiers Family and an Inexplicable Crime, Army Rangers, Ben Blum, Miami Book Fair International, NYU MFA, Ranger Games

Episode 294 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

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In this week’s episode, I catch up with Ben Blum, who was my colleague in a Jonathan Lethem workshop circa 2009, and talk about finding room for earnestness in a postmodern outlook, finding room for pleasure in a world sick with stimulation, and writing a challenging project that changes who you are as a writer.

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Ranger Games

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The music used in this episode was “Sweet Spot,” “Chase,” “Chaotica,” and “As the Dark Wave Swells” by The Bambi Molesters.

All hail Mistie Watkins, content editor of The Drunken Odyssey.

Photo by Shawn McKee.

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What is some of your favorite literature dealing with the military? Leave comments below.

Episode 236: Bill Savage (A Repeal Day Special Interview)!

05 Monday Dec 2016

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Episode 236 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 show, I talk to the literary historian Bill Savage about the re-release of George Ade’s 1931 classic, breezy history of drinking culture in America.

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George Ade

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Watch and hear Bill’s rant against the term dive bar.

Should Prohibition be repealed? (illustration from The Old Time Saloon)

My beloved Jetsetter Lounge, in Lake Worth, Florida, circa 2007.

Mike Jones, Mixological Guru.

Teege Braune, The Official Bartender of The Drunken Odyssey.

Episode 236 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

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Episode 231: Craig Pittman!

05 Saturday Nov 2016

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Craig Pittman, Manatee Insanity, Oh Florida!, The Scent of Scandal: Greed Betrayal and the World's Most Beautiful Orchid

Episode 231 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 journalist and nonfiction writer, Craig Pittman.

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On November 8th, come hear me, Gelndaliz Camacho, Rachel Kolman, and Whitney Hamrick read at There Will Be Words at The Gallery at Avalon Island.
Watch The Drunken Odyssey’s latest video: Craig Pittman, Tod Caviness, Jesse Bradley, Susan Fallows, and David Thomas Moran read in the Loose Lips reading series.
Miami Book Fair International‘s amazing weekend street fair will take place on November 19th and 20th.

Episode 231 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

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