Journalism

November 12, 2022

Episode #551: Elliot Ackerman!

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. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES TDO listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to… Continue reading

Episode, Journalism, Memoir, War

November 13, 2021

Episode 498: Craig Pittman!

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… Continue reading

Episode, Florida Literature, Journalism

June 26, 2021

Episode 478: Tyler Gillespie!

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. TEXTS DISCUSSED Read Brandon… Continue reading

Episode, Florida Literature, Journalism, Poetry

April 1, 2021

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

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… Continue reading

Aesthetic Drift, Florida Literature, Journalism, Poetry

November 21, 2020

Episode 447: Candacy Taylor!

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). 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… Continue reading

Episode, History, Journalism, Memoir

November 9, 2019

Episode 392: Jonathan Small!

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… Continue reading

Episode, Journalism

May 12, 2019

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

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 Continue reading

Disney, Journalism

January 26, 2019

Episode 351: Elliot Ackerman!

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. TEXTS DISCUSSED… Continue reading

Craft of Fiction Writing, Episode, Journalism, War

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

December 30, 2017

Episode 294: Ben Blum!

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… Continue reading

Creative Nonfiction, Episode, Journalism, Military Literature

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

December 5, 2016

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

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. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES Watch and hear Bill’s… Continue reading

Drinking, Episode, History, Journalism