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

601 episodes

721: A Secret DVD Commentary for Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive (with Chad Coup)!
26/07/2026 | 1h 46 mins.
In this week's episode, John King and Chad Coup discuss all of Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive, DVD Commentary style. This is a secret, so don't tell anyone.
720: A Discussion of Sylvia Plath's Ariel with Rachael Tillman
18/07/2026 | 1h 25 mins.
In this week's episode, John King and Rachael McKee embark on a fourth installment of Sylvia Plathery to discuss the restored edition of Ariel and Other Poems.
719: A Conversation about Tobe Hooper's Lifeforce (1985) with Shawn McKee!
11/07/2026 | 57 mins.
A conversation many years in the making, John King and Shawn McKee reckon with the genre-bending oddity that is Tobe Hooper's Lifeforce (1985).
718: Gilbert King, Plus Laura Lee Baher and Erik Deckers Event!
04/07/2026 | 1h 3 mins.
In this week's episode, John interviews the Pulitzer Prize-wining justice journalist and researcher Gilbert King,
plus TDO proudly shares a dual book-launch event for Laura Lee Bahr and Erik Deckers.
717: Bob Spitz!
27/06/2026 | 59 mins.
In this week's episode, John interviews music journalist and biographer Bob Spitz about the massive sixty-year career of The Rolling Stones, how the music moves us, and the process of creating a good book with a tidal wave's amount of material to cover.

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

Join author John King for eclectic interviews with writers from a variety of genres, including fiction writing, poetry, memoirs, and journalism. From literature to genre writing to the movies, all writing is up for discussion. In particular, The Drunken Odyssey features discussion of all aspects of the writing process—not just the published manuscript, pristinely presented to the entire literate world, but also the scrawled notes and tortured drafts that lead writers there. In long-form interviews, writers discuss their process and the way that writing has influenced their lives. Besides this interview, each episode also features a short memoir essay from a writer about a beloved book, plus John King responds to listener's questions and observations about the writing (and the drinking) life. For more information, see our website at www.thedrunkenodyssey.com.

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