12 Sunday May 2019
Posted in Disney, Journalism
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
26 Saturday Jan 2019
Posted in Craft of Fiction Writing, Episode, Journalism, War
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.
30 Saturday Dec 2017
Posted in Creative Nonfiction, Episode, Journalism, Military Literature
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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.
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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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.
05 Monday Dec 2016
Posted in Drinking, Episode, History, Journalism
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.
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.
05 Saturday Nov 2016
Posted in Episode, Journalism
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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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Episode 231 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
