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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.
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- Sep 12, 2026
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723: A Kerouac Project of Orlando Book Club Discussion of Gregory Corso's The Happy Birthday of Death, with Alex Gurtis! (opens the original)
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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! (opens the original)
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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)! (opens the original)
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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 (opens the original)
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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! (opens the original)
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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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