The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O'Meara
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The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O'Meara
The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O'Meara is a weekly podcast that showcases leaders in narrative journalism, essay, memoir, documentary film, radio and podcasts about the art and craft of telling true stories. Follow the show @creativenonfictionpodcast on Instagram and visit...
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Episode 508: Motivated by Slights and Play Fighting in Our Underwear with Alison Lyn Miller
"I spent several months trying to narrow down the cast. I had access to so many people with interesting stories. But what [my agent] said to me over...
Episode 507: 'Enshittification' Author Cory Doctorow Believes in a New, Good Internet
"Practically speaking, mostly what I'm doing is I'm writing in a hotel room and then writing in the taxi, and then if the TSA queue is long, I might...
Episode 506: Alexandra Marvar and the Trough of Despair, the Wall of Regret
"I feel like many of us can relate to that, like, that's the trough of despair, right? Like, that moment where you're energetic optimism, diving in, a...
Episode 505: Leah Sottile and Ryan Haas Talk 'Hush', Investigative Reporting, and Breaking New Trail in Their Careers
"We always were having conversations about, if we can't solve it, what then? What is this about? Why isn't it solved? And what is our job? Is the job...
Episode 504: Seth Wickersham and the Macbethian Tragedy of the American Quarterback
"You're constantly asking lean, open, neutral questions that start broad and then narrow, and you're asking more lean, open, neutral questions based o...
Episode 503: An Atmospheric River of Rejection with Jason Brown
"I will always go back to the well, and I will write until I die," says Jason Brown, author of Character Witness.
Jason Brown is here. He is a b...
Episode 502: Christa Hillstrom Takes Pride in Her Rejections
"Take pride in your rejections. It's a tough industry for putting yourself out there. You're like, doing a ton of work up front, not knowing if anyone...
Episode 501: Julian Brave NoiseCat Aimed for a Woven Text
"It's not actually about the questions you ask. It's about shutting up," says Julian Brave NoiseCat, author of We Survived the Night.
It’s episo...
Episode 500: Structure, Spec, and Panic with John McPhee
"Anything beats writing. Writing is tough," says John McPhee, staff writer for The New Yorker and author of more than thirty books of nonfiction.
Episode 499: The Post-Book Malaise is Real with Maggie Mertens
"You start to wonder was it all worth it? Or what's the point in trying to do it again? You know, if there's going to be more disappointment in the fu...
Episode 498: Sasha Bonet on Not Holding Back
"I have this desire to write as a novelist might write but write nonfiction," says Sasha Bonét, the author of The Waterbearers: A Memoir of Mothers an...
Episode 497: The Seduction of Art Thievery with Jack Rodolico
"I kinda hate it when people say writing is fun," says Jack Rodolico, author The Atavist original "The Blue Book Burglar."
Today we feature Jack...
Episode 496: Jeff Pearlman Finds the Little Guys
“So much misery. It is so much misery. It is so hard. It's not natural, locking yourself in your room for three years to focus on one person is not me...
Episode 495: On Being Merciless with Peter Rubin of Longreads
"When I came in [to Longreads], I didn't come in and say, I think we need to grow aggressively. I said, 'Let's figure out who we are. Let's figure out...
Episode 494: Co-Writing a Memoir, Becoming a Publisher, and Finding the Passion with Jeremy X. Wagner
"As a reader, if I were a fan reading this book, I want the good, the bad and the ugly. I want you to rip the band aid off and tell the truth. Because...
Episode 493: Masha Hamilton Asks Is the Writing Worth Rearranging Your Calendar For?
"This has to be meaningful to you. It has to be a story that won't leave you alone, a story that you're willing to rearrange your calendar for," says...
Episode 492: The Daniel Littlewood Takeover Extravaganza!
"My editor was like, hold on, you need to put your thumb on the scale of why this matters. Now, there's no first person in this, but you have your thu...
Episode 491: How Tracy Slater Broke Her Book into Steps
"Writing a book is so overwhelming. I need to have a book that's like so many steps in between. So what I do to manage my own anxiety and overwhelm ab...
Episode 490: Seeing the Fish and the Tank with Jeff Chang
"When I got back to [writing], it was like an athlete or a martial artist coming back to the practice, and the endorphins start running back. And you...
Episode 489: Staying Power, Book Promotion, Platform, and 'Slip,' a Memoir-Plus with Mallary Tenore Tarpley
"For many of us, myself included, it's easy to want to be on the New York Times bestseller list, or the USA Today bestseller list, and to try to get a...
Episode 488: Bill McKibben, the Dark Realist, Faces the Light
"The point of my book and the point of this big day of action that we're doing across the country is to drive that notion away that this isn't alterna...
Episode 487: Robert Weintraub and the 'American Hindenburg'
Robert Weintraub is a best selling author and, most recently, wrote "American Hindenburg" for The Atavist Magazine..
We’re going to hear from le...
Episode 486: Cartooning is the Children's Table of Art, says Roz Chast
"I really love this medium. I think cartooning is an incredible medium. There aren't a lot of rules. You can, if you can, really make it up. You can m...
Episode 485: Tensions and Textures with Poet Patrycja Humienik
"God, I feel like I'm still enduring that, like it's this sort of ongoing thing where I'm not sure I ever if I'll ever get to a place where I feel lik...
Episode 484: Rax King is Sloppy
"I am tyrannical about noise and about quiet. I don't feel that I can control the amount of mess I make. I mean, I know I can, but I kind of can't. An...
Episode 483: Off the Page and Into the Ears with Julia Barton
"That is the main difference between storytelling for the ear and writing, is that the cost of revisions is so much higher," says Julia Barton.
...
Episode 482: Matthew Wolfe and the Grammar of Delight
"You have to finish it out. You have to report it, even if it's financially a terrible idea," says Matthew Wolfe.
OK, it’s that Atavistian time...
Episode 481: Nieman Storyboard's Mark Armstrong Believes in the Beginners' Mindset
"Listening to podcasts, it's like, how do I start making them? That's been my approach, essentially try and take that beginner mindset into anything...
Episode 480: Dana Jeri Maier Doesn't Trust Anyone with a Neat Desk
"Yeah, join the club of people who feel inadequate," says Dana Jeri Maier, a cartoonist and author of the graphic book on creativity Skip to the Fun P...
Episode 479: Jeff Sharlet and Finding Real Toads in Imaginary Gardens
"You're an outsider. And as you linger in that space, you start to become an insider ... but you're still an outsider. Don't forget that, even though...
Episode 478: Nick Paumgarten says, 'The Reporting Suggests the Root System'
"I'm a guy who needs a lede. I need the lede to work. I need it to be compelling. And it doesn't have to be the best place to begin. It just has to be...
Episode 477: David Howard and the Search for Stories He Believes In
"It's honestly one of the biggest gambles I've taken in my career," says David Howard, the journalist behind "Conversations with a Hit Man," this for...
Episde 476: Amanda Heckert Helps the Rider Stay on the Horse
"The story is the horse, and the writer is the rider of the horse, and you as the editor, need to help guide them along. And if the rider starts to fa...
Episode 475: For Dane Huckelbridge, Spacing Out is Part of the Process
"If you don't cultivate other interests or travel or spend time with friends, this and that, you don't have anything to write about," says Dane Huckel...
Episode 474: How to Reconfigure the Fireworks with Yi Shun Lai
"One of the things I've done is to reconfigure the fireworks. The fireworks for me now are getting to have this thing off my desk so I get to work on...
Episode 473: Finding the Frame with Hampton Sides
"I would say my books are about three quarters research and sort of mining my research, and then one quarter writing," says Hampton Sides, author of s...
Episode 472: Melissa Febos and the Art of Personal Exploration with 'The Dry Season'
"I talked to my wife, and she was like, 'You're probably tired. You've been writing this book non stop for six months, and you probably just need a br...
Episode 471: The Cassidy Randall Residency at CNF Pod Continues!
"We are sort of drinking from a fire hose of content right now. And it makes me wonder, because I feel like I'm stuck on this wheel that I have to pro...
Episode 470: Megan Baxter is Into Rewilding Her Writing
"I've also learned in this rewilding experiment that so much of our time as writers takes place off the page, as we're thinking about our concepts, as...
Episode 469: John O'Connor on the Meaning of Bigfoot
"I don't feel envy. I don't think. Maybe in some deeper and maybe even more troubling psychological level. I do feel competition with with people, com...