Episode 11: August 19, 2012 (Interview Mitchell S. Jackson, Essay by Robert Kingett)
On Episode 11 of The Drunken Odyssey, John talks to Mitchell S. Jackson, plus Robert Kingett discusses William Wordsworth, and John answers mail.
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.
On Episode 11 of The Drunken Odyssey, John talks to Mitchell S. Jackson, plus Robert Kingett discusses William Wordsworth, and John answers mail.
On Episode 10 of The Drunken Odyssey, John talks to the poet Laren McClung, plus Claude Clayton Smith discusses John Updike, and John answers mail.
On Episode 7 of The Drunken Odyssey, John talks to Lisa Roney and Jaroslav KalfaÅ™ about films again), plus Krista Graham discusses Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield, and John answers mail.
On Episode 8 of The Drunken Odyssey, John talks to Ashley Ingaunta, plus Randall Burling discusses Roger Corman’s Edgar Allen Poe films, and John answers mail.
On Episode 7 of The Drunken Odyssey, John talks to Lisa Roney and Jaroslav KalfaÅ™, plus Alise Hamilton discusses Francesca Lia Block’s Dangerous Angels, and John answers mail.
Episode 6 features an interview with Jaroslav KalfaÅ™ about Stephen King’s On Writing, and Debbie Weaver discussing Cheryl Strayed’s iWild, plus listener mail.
On Episode 5 of The Drunken Odyssey, John talks to the poet Monica Wendel, author of the chapbook Call it a Window, plus Olivia Kate Cerrone discusses The Watcher in the Woods, and John answers mail.
On Episode 4 of The Drunken Odyssey, John talks to the Shakespearean actor/director/scholar Kevin Crawford, plus Adam Michael Walk discusses Gravity’s Rainbow, and John answers mail.
On Episode 3, John interviews the fabulous Lisa Claire Roney, plus Vanessa Victoria Volpe discusses Deborah Landau’s The Last Useable Hour.