719: A Conversation about Tobe Hooper's Lifeforce (1985) with Shawn McKee!
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).
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718: Gilbert King, Plus Laura Lee Baher and Erik Deckers Event!
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!
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 wa...
716: The Kerouac Project of Orlando Book Club Discussion of William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch (with Matt Peters)!
On this show, John and Matt Peters continue The Kerouac Project Book Club with a discussion of William S. Burrough's Naked Lunch.
715: Henry Hughes!
In this week's episode, John speaks with the poet Henry Hughes about poetry, fishing, patience, creativity, Charles Bukowski, and other matters of literary interest.
714: Lara Egger!
In this week's episode, John speaks with the poet Lara Egger about her new book, Flop Era. Other topics covered: the jostling of syntax, the long learning curve of becoming a writer, and how constraints point us towards ...
713: Dave Housley!
In this week's episode, John speaks with fiction writer and editor Dave Housley about the joys of using writing prompts, the problem-solving of writing meaningfully improbable stories inspired by pop culture, and the lim...
712: A Discussion of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, with Rachael Tillman!
In this week's show, Rachael Tillman and I discuss The Bell Jar, in part 3 of our series on Sylvia Plath. If you are keen, check out the previous installments: episodes 685 (The Colossus and Other Poems) and 693 (Emily...
711: A Discussion of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, with Sophia Ferrara!
Sophia Ferrara returns to the secret HQ of TDO to chat about the pleasure-filled dystopia of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, while John freaks out about the novel's structure or lack thereof.
710: A Discussion of William Harrison's Rollerball (with Sophia Ferrara)!
In #710, Sophia Ferrara returns to the secret HQ of TDO to chat about the dystopia of Rollerball, as imagined in the film and the short story, which was called "Roller Ball Murder." Jonathan E and his pal Moonpie turn ou...
709: Philip Schultz!
In this week's show, John speaks with the poet Philip Schultz about his wonderful new poetry collection, Enormous Morning. We discuss the self-critical voices that Philip calls the shit-bird, how personas can empower us ...
708: Felicia Day!
In this week's show, John speaks with the writer and actor, Felicia Day about her extraordinary page-turner of a graphic novel, The Lost Daughter of Sparta. We discuss how to regulate our bodies as writers, how rich the ...
707: Shawn Welcome!
In this week's show, the poet Shawn Welcome and I talk about how to love poetry, how to gather together our literary communities, and our beloved city of Orlando, Florida.
706: Richard Blanco!
On this week's program, I catch up with the amazing Richard Blanco about his recent collected poems, Homeland of my Body, a book sandwiched with two sections of exciting new work.
705: Mamie Pound!
On this week's program, I talk to Mamie Pound about how flash fiction works, poetry, and finding the authentic, messy, true emotion and understanding despite the editors in our brains.
704: Elliot Ackerman
On this week's program, I talk to Elliot Ackerman about his new novel, Sheepdogs, a hell of a military caper story.
703: A Discussion of Anaïs Nin's Delta of Venus, with Dianne Turgeon Richardson!
Happy Valentine's Day, world! Listen to Dianne Turgeon Richardson and I discuss the memorable, occasionally exhausting, and morally iffy smut of Anaïs Nin's Delta of Venus.
702: A Discussion of Lucasta Miller's The Brontë Myth, with Sophia Ferrara.
After reading some of Charlotte Brontë's Tales of Angria (#682), John and Sophia go a-Brontë-ing again. They discuss Lucasta Miller's extraordinary survey of the Brontë cult and the durable, troubled legacy of their fict...
701: Greg Proops!
In this week's show, I speak with the comedian Greg Proops about comedy writing, comedy performance, improv, politics, film, and more.
700: Chuck Klosterman!
On #700, John speaks with the underrated novelist and essay writer Chuck Klosterman about his wickedly funny and ever-insightful new book called Football. They also speak about post-modernism and humor and how audiences ...