The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life Podcast
1) 695: Loose Lips December 2025!
The Drunken Odyssey commandeered the Loose Lips oratory series during the tidings of yule and whatnot on December 2, 2025. The readers included Fred Lambert, Rachael Tillman and her deadly horsemen S...Show More
2) 694: Anne Waldman!
In this week's show, John interviews the poet Anne Waldman about her extraordinary new work, Mesopotopia.
3) 693: Emily Van Duyne
Emily Van Duyne discusses her remarkable tome of scholarship on Sylvia Plath, including a literary history of how Plath's legacy has been shaped. Emily also guides Rachael and John's attempts to de-Hu...Show More
4) 692: November 22, 2025 (Fire x Fire x Fire with Dianne Turgeon Richardson and Tod Caviness!)
John concocted a daft poetry game for friends with a body of work substantial enough to withstand randomization of theme and topic 'til our drunken voices and ears escape beyond the hurly-burly of th...Show More
5) 691: AJ Rodriguez!
On this week's show, John speaks with fiction writer A.J. Rodriguez, the June-July 2025 Kerouac Project of Orlando resident.
6) 690: Ivonne Lamazares!
On this week's show, John speaks with Ivonne Lamazares about her new novel, The Tilting House.
7) 689: Schloctoberfest 2025 #4: A Discussion of Night of the Living Dead, with Jeff Shuster
At the end of Schloctoberfest 2025, Jeff Shuster and I discuss the 1968 horror masterpiece Night of the Living Dead because how could we not? Our foray into 1960s black and white films is now ended.
8) 688: Schloctoberfest 2025 #3: A Discussion of Seconds, with Jeff Shuster
This time around, Jeff Shuster and John discuss John Frankenheimer's thriller Seconds from 1966.
9) 687: Schloctoberfest 2025 #2: A Discussion of The Sword of Doom, with Jeff Shuster!
On this week’s show, Jeff Shuster and John King delve into an existentially strange antihero story that feels a bit crazy and not entirely complete.
10) 686: Schloctoberfest 2025 #1: A Discussion of Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! with Jeff Shuster
In October, The Drunken Odyssey crams Literature aside to consider wild, dark fun cinema with our curator of Schlock, Jeff Shuster! This year, John and Jeff discuss 4 black-and-white films from the 19...Show More