Literature of Florida
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Episode 25: Martin Amis, Irvine Welsh, and Bunny Yeager!
Episode 25 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. This week’s show is my Miami Book Fair International Spectacular! I bring you interviews with Martin Amis, Irvine Welsh, and Bunny Yeager. Texts Discussed Episode 25 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative Continue reading
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Miami Book Fair International
Next weekend, I’ll be traveling from my secret HQ in Orlando down to Miami Book Fair International to see and talk to some of my favorite writers. The list of confirmed authors is both long and impressive (try to overlook the existence of Bill O’Reilly on this list). This is the largest congregation of literary Continue reading
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Episode 20: Crossing the Creek with Anna Lillios
Episode 20 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s show, I discuss Florida literature with the literary scholar Anna Lillios, Alison Barker writes about Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Chronology of Water, And I respond to mail. Texts Discussed: On November 1st at Continue reading
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Episode 14: Susan Hubbard!
Episode 14 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On episode 14, I talk to the novelist Susan Hubbard, Nate Rankin discusses David Foster Wallace, and John answers mail. TEXTS DISCUSSED Episode 14 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing Continue reading
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Episode 8, in which John Says Many Things He Oughtn’t
Episode 8 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. This latest show features an interview with Ashley Inguanta, Randall Burling exhumes what Roger Corman’s films did to Edgar Allen Poe, Plus John tries to explain masculinity in this week’s male-bag, err, mailbag… Texts Continue reading
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A Recommendation: What It’s Like Living Here — From Lisa Roney in Orlando
Dear Listeners, Lisa Claire Roney, our guest from Episode 3, recently published a “What It’s Like Living Here” essay in numerocinqmagazine. While I seldom agree with what writers say about Florida, Lisa’s work here is revelatory, accurate, and quite gorgeously written. Continue reading
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Episode 1 of The Drunken Odyssey: We are a launch!
Episode 1 of The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life is finally here (right click to download, or subscribe on iTunes here), featuring an interview with Nathan Holic and Ryan Rivas about the 15 Views of Orlando project. Plus, Olivia Kate Cerrone writes about Yann Martel’s Life of Pi. Books Discussed 15 Views of Orlando Continue reading
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