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 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.
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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...
Episode 468: Local Journalism and the Folly of Fame with Maggie Messitt
"I genuinely feel that those of us writing books need to remember that we are writing them simply because we feel the desperate need to write that par...
Episode 467: How to Bounce Back from 'Viscerally Negative' Feedback with Will Bardenwerper
Will Bardenwerper grew up playing baseball and even was a member of his college team at Princeton. As a result, he has a great perspective to write ab...
Episode 466: Katie Goh on Issues of Identity and the Trappings of Mythology
"Mythology can be really a dangerous thing, because mythology feels like it can't be changed, or it's always been something," says Katie Goh, author...
Episode 465: Miranda Green Searches for the Harm
"You want to be able to nab the details, but then you also want to be able to tell the story of why this matters and who's harmed by this, and finding...
Episode 464: John Glionna is a Clown Who Makes Balloons That Kids Don't Like
"We're sadistic motherf*ckers," says John Glionna, @johnglionna on the Instagrams.
John is a longtime journalist and author of No Friday Night L...
Episode 463: Leah Sottile on Building Scenes, Sagging Middles, and the Fever Dream of the American New Age
"It's kind of a mix of reporting to the very last minute to put off writing, and then when I have to write, having a panic attack, and then, like, boo...
Episode 462: On Podcasting and Gardens with Debbie Millman
"I'm much more interested in how a person achieves something than in what they specifically achieved," says Debbie Millman, the "Pod Mother" and OG po...
Episode 461: For Nick Davidson, Stories Hunt the Storyteller
Nick Davidson, @nickgdavidson on IG, says, "We usually think of hunting stories and looking for ideas, but I feel like it's the other way around: stor...
Episode 460:Pulitzer Prize-Winning Biographer Megan Marshall Takes on Personal Essays in 'After Lives'
Megan Marshall is the author of After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart (Mariner Books), a new collection of essays. Megan won...
Episode 459: Cassidy Randall Talks Forgotten Histories, Sticky Notes, and the Power of Listening
“I could suddenly see — and this is how I know when I'm supposed to start writing — is that words start putting themselves together in my head, and I...
Episode 458: Jaydra Johnson Had to Get Weird
"And then this person said, 'Hey, you know, this needs to be, like, more weird or less weird, but it's in this kind of odd place that isn't working.'...
Episode 457: Poynter's Neil Brown Says Editing Isn't Discussed Enough
"What I was fortunate enough to get exposed to very early in my career, and I really believe is now the way to go, which is the nature of editing as t...
Episode 456: Neko Case Wrote her Memoir in Bed
Neko Case is best known for her career as a musical performing artist and as a founding member of The New Pornographers, but her debut memoir The Hard...
Episode 455: Will McGrath's Season on the Sidelines for The Believer
Will McGrath often thinks he's a phony, a fake writer, a fake journalist. But he isn't. He's very much real, and his piece for The Believer, "American...