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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.
11 months, 4 weeks ago
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 a…
1 year ago
685: A Discussion of Sylvia Plath's The Colossus and Other Poems (with Rachael Tillman)
Sylvia Plath is legendary for being a tragic poet mostly known for her novel, The Bell Jar. John and Rachael are fans of Plath's poetry and The Bell …
1 year, 1 month ago
684: A Pop Poetry Conversation about Megan Fox's Pretty Boys are Poisonous
This conversation with Samantha Nickerson, Brian Salmans, and Rachael Tillman will give you some idea of the mischief you are missing out on, and the…
1 year, 1 month ago
683: Eugenio Negro!
This week, John speaks with the fiction writer, cartoonist, and musician Eugenio Negro about his new novel, Despair Priorities, the long term project…
1 year, 1 month ago
682: A Discussion of Charlotte Brontë's Tales of Angria, with Sophia Ferrara
Sophia Ferrara joins John down the rabbit hole of Charlotte Brontë's early private storytelling.
1 year, 2 months ago
681: The Kerouac Project of Orlando Book Club Discussion of William S. Burrough's Junky (with Matt Peters)!
In this week's show, John teams up once again with his friend Matt Peters to discuss the second book of William S. Burroughs's original quartet of no…
1 year, 2 months ago
680: Katharine Coldiron!
On today's show, I speak with the essayist Katharine Coldiron about how the way we watch movies are sometimes our autobiographies, sometimes our phil…
1 year, 2 months ago
679: Keith Mackenzie!
On 679, John speaks with the novelist Keith MacKenzie about how to plan an unplannable thriller, and how body horror and comedy and existentialism ar…
1 year, 2 months ago
678: Zach Zimmerman!
On 678, John speaks with recent Kerouac Project of Orlando resident Zach Zimmerman about memoir, memories, childhood, comedy, tragedy, the problems o…
1 year, 3 months ago