The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life

 Photo by Art Streiber. In this week’s episode, I talk with the amazing Carmen Maria Machado about her new experimental ... Read more

This week, I talk to fiction writer Nathan Englander about the pressurized form of fictional worlds, giving the reader s... Read more

In this week's show, C.H. Hooks and I sit down with some questionable red wine to discuss Florida, Florida literature, a... Read more

In this week’s show, I talk with the great Erica Jong about writing in one's voice, being in love with language, the dis... Read more

In this week’s episode, I talk with Liz Prato about being the best haole possible in Hawaii, the mixing of history and m... Read more

In this week’s episode, I talk with the novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum about finding one's voice, finding the right point-o... Read more

In this week’s episode, I talk to Mitchell S. Jackson about finding joy in voice while dwelling on painful material in a... Read more

This week's show features another pair of episodes from Miami Book Fair International.

In this week’s episode, I talk once again with the graphic novelist, Peter Kuper, this time about his latest literary ad... Read more

This week, I talk to my friend and colleague Amy Watkins about becoming more systematic about submitting work, and about... Read more

In this week’s episode, I interview Ron Cooper about Florida literature, research, the cultural tensions of Florida, and... Read more

This week, I speak to fiction writer Shane Hinton about his poetic, spooky apocalyptic novel, Radio Dark.

This week, I talk to fiction writer Rion Amilcar Scott about his extraordinary fiction collection, The World Does Not Re... Read more

In this week’s episode, I talk with the poet Tim J. Myers about spirituality, open systems of belief, and the passion of... Read more

In this episode, I share the most recent Loose Lips, the monthly current events literary thing run by Burrow Press, who ... Read more

Episode 382 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple po... Read more

This week, I offer another round of conversations from Miami Book Fair International, in which I talk to Steve Almond ab... Read more

This week I sit down with novelist and memoirist Paul Lisicky to discuss his new memoir, Later: My Life at The Edge of T... Read more

In this week’s episode, I talk with crime novelist Scott Phillips, author of The Ice Harvest, Cottonwood,Rake, The Adjus... Read more

This week, Vanessa Blakeslee and I assail more essays on the craft of literature, this time two by T.S. Eliot. TEXTS DI... Read more