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Tag Archives: John King

Episode 85: Erotic Poetry Night 2

13 Thursday Feb 2014

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Episode, Erotic Literature, Poetry

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Creative Writing, Episode, Erotic Poetry, Erotic Prose, Jesse Bradley, John King, Michael Pierre, Naomi Butterfield, Rachel Kolman, Susan Lilley, Valentine's Day, Writing Podcast

Episode 85 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

This week, I present our first live show of the year, from our night of Erotic Poetry, as either a prelude or an antidote to Valentine’s Day, according to taste.

Erotic Poetry Night 2014

NOTES

The Heaven of Animals, the forthcoming collection from friend-of-the-show David James Poissant, is available for pre-order. Please support the launch of his book, which is wonderful reading.

The Heaven of Animals

Episode 85 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 81: Mailbag Episode 4 (A New Hope)

18 Saturday Jan 2014

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Craft of Fiction Writing, David James Poissant, Episode

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Dan Lauer, David James Poissant, John King, Parliament House, Standing Straight, The Mysteries of Pittsburg

Episode 81 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 answer some mail with my friend, David James Poissant,

David James Poissant

Plus Dan Lauer writes about “standing straight.”

Dan Lauer

 NOTES

According to The Guardian, the short list for the Hatchet Awards has been announced.

John King Poster

The Heaven of Animals, the forthcoming collection from friend-of-the-show David James Poissant, is available for pre-order. Please support the launch of this exquisite collection.

The Heaven of Animals

TEXTS DISCUSSED

What The World Will Look Like

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

You Shall Know Our Velocity

Episode 81 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

In Boozo Veritas #15: The Drunken Odyssey with John King, Episode 72: The Liner Notes

11 Monday Nov 2013

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Drinking, In Boozo Veritas

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Baudelaire, Baudelaire Beer, Dianne Turgeon Richardson, Intergalactic Polynesian Luau Punch, John King, Matt Peters, Teege Braune

In Boozo Veritas #15 by Teege Braune

The Drunken Odyssey with John King, Episode 72:

The Liner Notes

The Drunken Odyssey with John King is your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature. Last Tuesday I was honored to be invited by John to take part in episode 72 with fellow local writers Dianne Turgeon Richardson and Matt Peters, who is the man behind Orlando-based publishing house Beating Windward Press. What literary subject could John have possibly needed my expertise to discuss? Drinking, of course. And how should one discuss drinking? While drinking, naturally.

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The four of us gathered at the clubhouse of John’s condo where an important meeting was taking place, so we were subsequently relegated to a hot, cramped back room that was still decorated for Halloween. The walls were entirely black and covered with drawings of skulls and messages of death scrawled along them, but every writer worth her grit knows that literature isn’t about comfort, nor for that matter, is drinking. John initiated our union by mixing together equal parts white rum, dark rum, orange juice, pineapple juice, and more than a splash of grenadine into a pitcher large enough to quench the thirst of an entire little league team.

The concoction known as Intergalactic Polynesian Luau Punch was atomic red, contained enough sugar to send Cookie Monster into a diabetic coma, and entered literary posterity for keeping us well quaffed throughout the night (assuming we all become celebrated writers).

I was hesitant to listen to the resulting podcast for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it has been said on more than one occasion that I like to hear the sound of my own voice. If this is so (it probably is), it only pertains to my voice as it comes out of my mouth. Once recorded and played back to me, I rather hate the sound of my own voice. I know I’m not alone in this hangup. Hearing your own voice tends to be equivalent to seeing your own distorted image in a fun house mirror, and then cringing as you realize there’s nothing wrong with the mirror at all; you actually look that way.

Teege Braune channels Donald Duck

Secondly, bouts of drinking were not meant to be documented. Foggy recollections, exaggerated tales: these are the only ways drinking binges should be remembered. It is why drunks obsessively try to get those around them to have another drink. A recording device is not only stone-cold sober, it also has been blessed with an infallible memory and a tendency to create scandals for people like former presidents and celebrities. Fortunately, John, Dianne, Matt, and I are neither of these things.

Dianne Turgeon Richardson, future politician

Nevertheless, we each harbor our own sense of pride and threshold for humiliation. Anyway, the podcast is certainly not as incriminating as the video of me at twenty-three having consumed a great deal of bourbon and wearing a bikini, and we can all thank Bacchus for that.

The podcast speaks for itself, as podcasts tend to do. Though I would like to point out, if you didn’t notice already, what an absolute champion drinker our illustrious host John King proved to be. Matt got pretty silly before he was half finished with his first glass, and I followed close behind. Dianne held her own pretty well, but even she was stumbling over her words and dropping casual F-bombs by the end of it. John, on the other hand, drank his portion of the Intergalactic Luau Punch in stride. He unsuccessfully attempted to keep us focused while we went off on strange rants. I’m still not sure why he expected a group of drunks to stay on topic.

Baudelaire speaks

Never once did he slur his words or embarrass himself by blubbering on whilst trying to remember where he was and what the hell he was doing there. I can’t say the same thing for myself, but then again, I don’t think John invited me to be the resident teetotaler.

Lastly, my apologies to Ryan Rivas for his inclusion in the discussion. John promised to edit out anything that was inappropriate. He lied.

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Teege Braune at workTeege Braune (episode 72) is a writer of literary fiction, horror, essays, and poetry. Recently he has discovered the joys of drinking responsibly. He may or may not be a werewolf.

Episode 57: Functionally Literate!

13 Saturday Jul 2013

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Disney, Episode, Poetry

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Burrow Press, Creative Writing, Disney, Fiction, John King, Literature, Poetry, Shakespeare, Writing Podcast

Episode 57 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 share a Functionally Literate event I participated in back in May with Monica Wendel and Philip Deaver.

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Functionally Literate

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This was an accidental DO reunion, since Monica was a guest on episodes 5  and 49,  and Philip was a guest on episode 35. Alas, Enid Schumer could not attend.

BOOKS DISCUSSED

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 No Apocalypse

NOTES

See our kickstarter campaign to travel to Weeki Wachee Springs to interview Lu Vickers about Florida literature and the world famous Weeki Wachee mermaids. We reached our goal on day 1, but we welcome your continued contributions to keep the show going strong!

WeekiWachee

A Drunken Odyssey Video Exclusive: Carolyn Forché Reading & Talk at UCF, Feb. 25, 2013

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The Tempest

Episode 57 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 56: Chuck Klosterman!

04 Thursday Jul 2013

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Craft of Fiction Writing, Episode, Memoir, Music, Postmodernism, Sports

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Chuck Klosterman, Cinema, Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, David Foster Wallace, John King, Literature, Postmodernism, Sports, stephen king, Writing Podcast

Episode 56 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 essayist and novelist Chuck Klosterman,

Chuck Klosterman

Plus John McCaffrey discusses Leo Durocher’s Nice Guys Finish Last.

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BOOKS DISCUSSED

I Wear the Black Hat

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Killing Yourself to Live

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Nice Guys Finish Last

NOTES

On July 9th, Mattew Peters will read prose at There Will be Words in Downtown Orlando.

See our kickstarter campaign to travel to Weeki Wachee Springs to interview Lu Vickers about Florida literature and the world famous Weeki Wachee mermaids. We reached our goal on day 1, but we welcome your continued contributions to keep the show going strong!

WeekiWachee

The Drunken Odyssey Deeply Recommends

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When I complained that Britney Spears was in Esquire back in the early paleolithic days of 2004, I confess I didn’t dwell sufficiently on what Chuck Klosteman’s article said about her cognitive dissonance, although his words were competing with Britney Spears’s anatomy at the time.

Esquire

On May 14th, 1988, Atlantic Records held a 40th Anniversary Concert during which, in my infallible opinion, and it pained me to say this, Debbie Gibson outplayed Led Zeppelin. Want to disagree? Watch the footage:

Debbie Gibson

Led Zeppelin

For the record, Jason Bonham was drumming, although I don’t this Hindenburg of a performance can be blamed on him.

According to a Times profile, Alice Munro is retiring.

According to The Guardian, Neil Gaiman is writing a new Sandman series.

Episode 56 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 52: Nathan Holic!

08 Saturday Jun 2013

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Drinking, Episode

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Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, Fiction, John King, Literature, Writing Podcast

Episode 52 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 once again to Nathan Holic, who first appeared on this show all the way back on episode 1,

Nathan Holick

Plus Drew Perlmutter discusses the Cannes Film Festival,

Drew Perlmutter

Plus Nicholas Brown discusses Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove.

Nicholas Brown

Texts Discussed

American Fraternity Man

Lonesome Dove 1

NOTES

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Bloomsday 2013
A Drunken Odyssey Exclusive: Matthew Pitt Reading & Talk at UCF, Feb. 19, 2013

Michael Shannon Reads the Insane Detla Gamma Sorority Letter
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Episode 52 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 47: Nerd Love, Sweet Birds of Youth, and Everything Else in the Universe (A Live Reading)

04 Saturday May 2013

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Episode, Literature of Florida, Poetry, Shakespeare

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Anna King, Jared Silvia, Jeffrey Shuster, Jocelyn Bartkevivicius, John King, Literature, Madison Strake Bernath, Patrick Hawkins, Poetry, Shakespeare, Terry Ann Thaxton, Urban ReThink, Writing Podcast

Episode 47 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, it’s a great live event!

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Notes

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

Episode 29: The Drunken Odyssey Xmas Party

21 Friday Dec 2012

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Christmas literature, Drinking, Episode

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Anna King, Ashley Inguanta, Christmas literature, David Sedaris, Episode, Jamie Poissant, John King, Lisa Claire Roney, Olivia Kate Cerrone, Shakespeare, Steph Jurusz

Episode 29 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 present The Drunken Odyssey Xmas Party, featuring fabulous readings of original work from

Ashley Inguanta

Ashley Inguanta by Olivia Kate Cerrone

Jamie Poissant

Jamie Poissant by Ashley Inguanta

Lisa Claire Roney

Lisa Claire Roney by Ashley Inguanta

Steph Jurusz

Steph Jurusz by Ashley Inguanta

Anna King

Olivia Kate Cerrone

Olivia Kate Cerrone by Ashley Inguanta

and John King

John King by Ashley Inguanta

Special Thanks to Pat Green and Ryan Rivas!

Episode 29 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
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