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Category Archives: Journalism

Episode #551: Elliot Ackerman!

12 Saturday Nov 2022

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Episode 551 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 memoirist Elliot Ackerman.

Photo by Huger Foote.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

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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.


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Episode 551 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 498: Craig Pittman!

13 Saturday Nov 2021

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Episode 498 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 today’s show, I discuss Florida journalism, the tragic side of Florida Man, iguana hunters, bespoke mermaid tales, and other topics of great interest with Craig Pittman.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Notes

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.

Miami Book Fair has begun!


Episode 498 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 478: Tyler Gillespie!

26 Saturday Jun 2021

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Episode, Florida Literature, Journalism, Poetry

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Episode 478 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, journalist & poetTyler Gillespie & I discuss long-form journalism and the epic wildness and weirdness of Florida.

Photo by Elizabeth Lynch.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Read Brandon Wolfe’s essay about Pulse.

Read John King’s essay about Walt Disney World’s tragic alligator incident.

Learn about how Florida’s governor will protect freedom at Florida universities by policing thought and banning race from all educational discussion.

NOTES

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 literary adventure novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

Episode 478 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).

Aesthetic Drift #28: The Festival For Poets: O, Miami!

01 Thursday Apr 2021

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Aesthetic Drift, Florida Literature, Journalism, Poetry

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Aesthetic Drift #38 by Avery Coffey

The Festival For Poets: O, Miami!

Coming from someone who has been in Miami for a total of three years, I still haven’t explored all that the city has to offer. There simply isn’t enough daylight to experience the ins and outs of it. However, one event I’ve heard mentioned in several rooms is that of O, Miami, a festival is for lovers of poetry, writers of poetry, and those who simply want to understand it!

O, Miami began in 2011 with the objective of spreading a love for poetry. However, the originators found that the love for poetry and art was already thriving throughout the city. Their only job was to give it a platform. Every summer, they host an open call for event and project ideas. Anyone can contribute, and they shuffle through every single one to mold the O’Miami Poetry Festival for the spring. These events and projects take place over the entire month of April.

Last year, the festival was called off due to COVID-19.

According to Melody Santiago, one of the festival directors, when preparing for this year’s festival, O, Miami had to delegate which events and projects from 2020 would take place this year. Ultimately, some had to be pushed to next year if they were not suitable for a virtual platform.

Mrs. Santiago recalled her introduction to the festival. As a Miami native, she believed she knew everything there was to know about the city. However, as she became involved with the festival, she quickly realized she hadn’t even experienced the true beauty of it. Her time spent with the organization has been dedicated to creating a space for everyone to enjoy literature. There isn’t a specific initiative for O, Miami. More than anything, she wishes for everyone to feel a part of the festival and live through it. Poetry isn’t something that you have to study for. Everyone, and anyone, can enjoy literature.

This statement flows through every project and event they are hosting this year. One of the programs, Something to Chew On, was named a project that Melody is looking forward to. It gives a platform to incarcerated people with a love for poetry. Found in gumball machines, their poems will reach masses and draw a bridge between Miami society and those serving time in prison.

O, Miami will kick off on April 1st with an Instagram Live featuring poet Campbell McGrath as he reads from his favorite book!

Campbell McGrath (left) and John King (right). Photo by Shawn McKee.

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Avery Coffey is collegiate writer based in Miami, Florida. She’s always had a passion for creative writing. Since entering college in 2018, she has discovered a love for using her talents to explore current events and social issues, and being a voice for others.

Episode 447: Candacy Taylor!

21 Saturday Nov 2020

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Episode 447 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).

Photo by Katrina Parks (Assertion Films).

On this week’s show, Candacy Taylor and I discuss her new book, Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America. We talk about how research can transform a project, and how our understanding of our family’s histories give us windows into understanding our nation’s history, including our own precarious, sometimes alarming moment in it. We also discuss how instrumental color-coded index cards can help us balance the complex work of presenting the long threads of history.

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How to stay organized when your project has a lot of moving parts: Candacy Taylor’s color-coded index cards for Overground Railroad.


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.
  • Register with Miami Book Fair Online in order to stream its free events, including a debut poet panel moderated by yours truly.

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

Episode 447 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 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.

NOTES

This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at Scribophile.

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.


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).

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

12 Sunday May 2019

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Disney, Journalism

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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.

elliot ackerman

Photo by Huger Foote.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

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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

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey 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.

Ben Blum with John King.png

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

NOTES

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.

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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

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Drinking, Episode, History, Journalism

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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.

billl-savage-headshot

George Ade

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the-old-time-saloon

NOTES

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

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

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

mike-jones

Mike Jones, Mixological Guru.

Teege Braune at work

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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