Episode 228: Readings from HP Lovecraft

15 Saturday Oct 2016

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Beyond the Wall of Sleep, Chris Booth, Elise McKenna, From Beyond, HP Lovecraft, The Beast in the Cave, The Tree, Tom Lucas

Episode 228 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 present a quartet of readings from HP Lovecraft: “The Beast in the Cave,” “The Tree,” “Beyond the Wall of Sleep,” and “From Beyond.”

Our readers are Chris Booth,

Chris Booth

Elise McKenna, and Tom Lucas.

Elise & Tom Lovecraft Roundtable

THE TEXT

NOTES

This episode is a companion to Episode 227, a roundtable discussion of Lovecraft.

If you like this show’s readings, check out the previous literary reading episode, 123, on the year without a summer that spawned the ghost story contest between Lord Byron, the Shelleys, and Dr. Polidori.

If you are near Orlando on October 19th, come to Horror Movie Poetry Night 3.

Episode 227: HP Lovecraft Roundtable!

08 Saturday Oct 2016

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Cthulhu, Dianne Turgeon Richardson, Dunwich Horror, Elise McKenna, HP Lovecraft, John King, Julian Chambliss, The Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Tom Lucas, Weird Tales

Episode 227 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 and my inestimable guests have a fine conversation about Lovecraft and his bizarre tales and his rather strange life and his exceptionally unfortunate opinions

The participants included Elise McKenna, Tom Lucas,

Julian Chambliss,

and Dianne Turgeon Richardson.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

This looks like a 1980s era Penguin book, right?

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An author photo can look unintentionally scarier than the horror book cover sometimes.

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Episode 206: The Best of There Will Be Words

14 Saturday May 2016

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J. Bradley, Jared Silvia, Karen Price, Litlando, The Gallery at Avalon Island, There Will Be Words, Tom Lucas

Episode 206 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 share a recording of latest Best Of show in Jesse Bradley’s prose reading series, There Will Be Words, in which I was a reader, along with Tom Lucas, Jared Silvia, and Karen Price.

J. Bradley. Photo by John King.

John King. Tom Lucas is at crotch height. Photo by Shawn McKee.

Tom Lucas. Photo by Shawn McKee.

Jared Silvia. Photo by Shawn McKee.

Karen Price. Photo by Shawn McKee.

NOTES

If you live in the City Beautiful, that is Orlando, come see me collaborate with others in The Pink Fire Revue on Saturday, June 4th.

Episode 206 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 176: Tom Lucas!

24 Saturday Oct 2015

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Aimee Bender, Dallas Woodburn, Eraserhead Press, Fiction, Leather to the Corinthians, New Bizarro Author Series, Pax Titanus, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, Tom Lucas

Episode 176 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 interview bizarro fiction writer Tom Lucas,

plus Dallas Woodburn writes about how reading Aimee Bender’’s The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake changed her life.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

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The Drunken Odyssey: A Podcast About the Writing Life presents another evening of verse inspired by that most poetic of film genres: horror!

Featuring

Mark Purcell
Teege Braune
Anna King
Vincent Crampton
Genevieve Anna Tyrrell
Tom Lucas
Susan Fallows
& your host, John King.

Absinthe ceremony to follow?

October 28, 2015

Writer’s Atelier (336 Grove Avenue, Winter Park, FL)

See facebook event page here.

Episode 176 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 175: The 5th Annual Flash Fiction Spooktacular!

17 Saturday Oct 2015

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Catherine Carson, Danita Berg, Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction Spooktacular, Litlando, Peg Martin, Raymond McKee, There Will Be Words, Tom Lucas, Will Garland

Episode 175 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Flash Fiction Spooktacular Jesse Bradley

Jesse Bradley (Photo by Patrick Greene)

In this week’s episode, I share a recording of a Halloween show in Jesse Bradley’s prose reading series, There Will Be Words, in which I was a reader.

Besides moi, the show featured

Raymond McKee

Will Garland

Danita Berg

J. C. Sevcik

Peg Martin

Catherine Carson,

and Tom Lucas.

JC Sevcik (Photo by Patrick Greene)

NOTES

Check out Michael Hearst‘s new album, Film Music and Other Scores, Vol. 1.

Episode 175 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.