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

John King

Booking Overview

This is a literary interview podcast focused on the writing life, with long-form conversations featuring published writers, poets, memoirists, journalists, and genre authors. Agencies could credibly pitch established or emerging authors, literary critics, writing instructors, and journalists with distinctive processes or perspectives; booking difficulty is medium because guests need relevant publishing or professional credentials but do not appear to require celebrity-level prominence.

Metrics

Episodes: 733

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

Instagram: 591 followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

jk2475@nyu.edu

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Host

John King - Author and interviewer focused on writing, literature, and the creative process across fiction, poetry, memoir, journalism, and genre writing.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Published authors, poets, memoirists, journalists, literary critics, and other professional writers with substantive experience or distinctive insight into the writing process.

Required Achievements:

Published books or poetry collections, Professional journalism or literary work, Recognized expertise in writing, literature, or genre fiction

Recent Guest Discussions

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Recent Topics

Writing, Literature, Fiction, Poetry, Memoir

Episodes

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

723: A Kerouac Project of Orlando Book Club Discussion of Gregory Corso's The Happy Birthday of Death, with Alex Gurtis!

September 12, 2026

In this week's episode, John and Alex Gurtis dive deeper into Gregory Corso's poetry as part of The Kerouac Project of Orlando Book Club.

722: Barbara Hamby!

September 05, 2026

This week, John interviews the poet Barbara Hamby about her new collection of odes, Burn, now out with The University of Pisttsburgh Press.

721: A Secret DVD Commentary for Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive (with Chad Coup)!

July 26, 2026

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.

Publicly listed emails

jk2475@nyu.edu

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