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Episode 48: Dylan Landis!

11 Saturday May 2013

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Episode 48 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 interview the fiction writer Dylan Landis

Dylan Landis

plus the poet Eleanor Lerman writes about Leonard Cohen’s Spice Box of Earth.

Eleanor Lerman

Texts Discussed

Normal People Dont Live Like This

the_spice_box_of_earth_front

Notes

Harper Lee is suing her former literary agent, according to an NPR story.

If you live in Central Florida, come to the next event in Jared Sylvia’s Functionally Literate series, despite the fact that I am reading there.

Functionally Literate

 Episode 48 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 40: Tony Hoagland!

15 Friday Mar 2013

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Episode 40 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 talk to the poet Tony Hoagland,

Tony Hoagland

Plus Bob Lamb Explains How Ernest Hemingway saved him from Rendition.

Bob Lamb

Texts Discussed

Sweet Ruin

Donkey Gospel

What Narcissism Means to MeReal Sofistikashun

Unicorproated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty

Stupid HopeArt Matters Hemingway

Complete Stories of Hemingway

Show Notes

This episode begins with a limerick written and read by Chris Booth, in honor of our pal Steve Kelly:

Just a few, and Steve’s eyes ‘gan to wander;
Then day next he was mute and a-ponder:
When he saw where he woke,
In sad tones, thus he spoke:
“It’s Absinthe makes the heart to grow fonder.”

Tonight, Saturday, and Sunday are the last days in Orlando to see Charlie Bethel’s awesome performance of The Odyssey.

Charlie Bethel's Odyssey
Saturday (March 16th) is also the last day to see this season’s superb Othello at Orlando Shakespeare Theatre.

Othello

Episode 40 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 39: Rick Moody!

06 Wednesday Mar 2013

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Episode 39 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 talk to Rick Moody,

Rick Moody

James Best explains why he isn’t afraid of sharks,

James Best

Plus I talk to the playwright and actor Charlie Bethel about his current one man show of The Odyssey.

Charlie Bethel's Odyssey

Texts Discussed

On Celestial Music

The Four Fingers of Death

DemonologyThe Ring of Brightest Angels

Notes

The Drunken Odyssey will be making a pub crawl in Boston this Friday.

AWP Conference

Episode 39 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 38: Matthew Pitt!

02 Saturday Mar 2013

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Episode 38 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 talk to the fiction writer Matthew Pitt,

Matthew Pitt

plus Pamela Skjolsvik discusses David Sedaris’s Me Talk Pretty One Day.

Pamela Skjolsvik

Texts Discussed

Attention Please Now

Me Talk Pretty One Day

great gatsby

Ishmael Reed’s WSJ blog about Django Unchained.

Kirtsen Holt’s new poem, Taxonomy.

Notes:Othello

Orlando Shakespeare Theatre presents Othello, now through March 16th.

Episode 38 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 37: Steve Davenport!

18 Monday Feb 2013

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Episode 37 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 talk to the poet Steve Davenport,

Steve Davenport

Joe Conley plums Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God,

Joe Conley

Plus I answer some mail…

Texts Discussed:

Overpass

Uncontainable NoiseDavenport Nine Poems and Three Fictions

Child of God

Laurence Sterne and the Visual Imagination

Print

Notes:

Othello

Orlando Shakespeare Theatre presents Othello, now through March 16th.

Winter with the Writers

Throughout February, Rollins College will be hosting its annual author series, Winter with the Writers.

Episode 37 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 35: Philip F. Deaver!

09 Saturday Feb 2013

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Episode 35 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 talk with my friend Philip F. Deaver, who happens to have won a Flannery O’Conner Award,

Philip Deaver and John King 3

plus Helena-Anne Htittel discusses Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner.

Helena-Anne Hittel

Texts Discussed:

silent_retreats

How Men Pray

15Views_small

The Kite Runner

Richard III

Notes

Throughout February, Rollins College will be hosting its annual author series, Winter with the Writers.

Orlando Shakespeare Theatre presents Othello, now through March 16th.  Get the Groupon here.

In other Shakespeare news, Richard III’s remains were found underneath a parking lot. I’m not making this up–it’s in The Times.

Episode 35 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 32: Terry Cronin!

19 Saturday Jan 2013

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Episode 32 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 interview novelist Terry Cronin,

Terry Cronin

And Jean Davis offers one amazing essay about Write is a Verb.

Jean Davis

Texts Discussed

Skinvestigator Part 1: Tramp Stamp

Skinvestigator Part 2: Rash Guard

Skinvestigator Part 3: Sunburn

Students of the Unusual

Write is a Verb

Notes

Susan Lilley will be reading from her new book of poems, Satellite Beach, on Thursday, January 24th, at Rollins College.  For more info, click here.

Show contributor Alise Hamilton (episode 7) discusses bingers and plodders, and the merits of the former as writers, at Bill and Dave’s Cocktail Hour.

A history of the Coppertone sign.

Episode 32 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 31: Grant Ginder!

13 Sunday Jan 2013

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Episode 31 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 interview novelist Grant Ginder,

Grant Ginder

Plus Tim J. Myers discusses Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are,

Tim Myers

Texts Discussed

Driver's Education
This is How it Starts
Where The Wild Things Are
This is How You Lose Her
Tom Ameen Solo Piano Moments
Notes

The Drunken Odyssey has its first video posting!  Presenting Martin Amis at Miami Bookfair International (the video version of episode 26).

Martin Amis at Miami Bookfair International 2012 from John King on Vimeo.

David Bowie’s new song, “Where Are We Now?”

Is Barnes and Noble in Trouble?

Episode 31 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 27: Cara Blue Adams!

08 Saturday Dec 2012

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Episode 27 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 talk to fiction writer and Southern Review co-editor, Cara Blue Adams,

Cara Blue Adams

Plus I present some of Richard Negri’s jazz poetry,

& I answer some mail.

Texts Discussed

The Southern Review

meditations

Episode 27 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 23: Darin Strauss!

10 Saturday Nov 2012

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Episode 23 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 Miami Book Fair International with Lissette Menendez,

then I talk about craft with my teacher and friend, the novelist Darin Strauss,

Plus Sarah Blakeley writes about Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Texts Discussed
 
 
N.B. Sarah Blakeley’s essay was first published in The Language Arts Journal of Michigan.
 
Episode 23 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.