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The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O"Meara

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 patreon.com/cnfpod to support!

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57:27

Episode 462: On Podcasting and Gardens with Debbie...

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O"Meara ·

2025/04/11

"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 podcaster, twenty years in for Design Matters.She's also the author of the new book Love Letter to a Garden (Timber Press).In this episode, we talk about: The 20 year arc of Design Matters What people she’s most drawn to How she views the narrative arc of an interview The research As well as the evergreen themes of her new book on her quest for a

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79:38

Episode 461: For Nick Davidson, Stories Hunt the...

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O"Meara ·

2025/04/04

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: stories hunt the storyteller, and I'm just prey."Nick's latest piece is for The Atavist Magazine titled "The Balloon That Fell From the Sky."His work has appeared in Outside, VICE Sports, Garden & Gun, and a million other places of note.Podcast Specific Substack at creativenonfictionpodcast.substrack.com.Pre-order The Front RunnerNewsletter: Rage

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63:47

Episode 460:Pulitzer Prize-Winning Biographer Megan...

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O"Meara ·

2025/03/28

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 the Pulitzer Prize in 2014 for Margaret Fuller: A New American Life.Podcast Specific Substack at creativenonfictionpodcast.substrack.com.Pre-order The Front RunnerPromotional Sponsor: The Power of Narrative Conference. Use CNF15 at checkout for a 15% discount.Newsletter: Rage Against the AlgorithmShow notes: brendanomeara.com

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51:31

Episode 459: Cassidy Randall Talks Forgotten...

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O"Meara ·

2025/03/21

“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 just have to get them out, right? Which doesn't happen all the time, but it did for this," says Cassidy Randall, author of Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All Women's Ascent of Denali (Abrams Books).Cassidy's work has appeared in National Geographic, the New York Times, Outside Magazine, The Atavist, and many, many others.In

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58:09

Episode 458: Jaydra Johnson Had to Get Weird

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O"Meara ·

2025/03/14

"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.' And I was like, she's so, right," says Jaydra Johnson, @jaydranicole, and author of Low: Notes on Art & Trash (Fonograf).Lots of good stuff in this episode. We talk about: Luck Growing up poor Dialing up the weirdness And binge-buying books on eBayPodcast Specific SubstackPre-order The Front RunnerPromotional Sponsor: The Power of Narrative

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60:53

Episode 457: Poynter's Neil Brown Says Editing Isn't...

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O"Meara ·

2025/03/14

"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 thinking," says Poynter Institute president Neil Brown.Neil has spent more than forty years as a reporter and editor, and he just wrapped up his tenure on the Pulitzer Prize Board. He's one of the more nimble minds in journalism and a champion of the editor/writer dynamic.In this conversation, Neil riffs on Editing as thinking The late writing coach

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41:56

Episode 456: Neko Case Wrote her Memoir in Bed

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O"Meara ·

2025/03/07

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 Harder I Fight the More I Love You (Grand Central) is all the evidence we need to see that she's got the chops for narrative.Podcast Specific SubstackPre-order The Front RunnerPromotional Sponsor: The Power of Narrative Conference. Use CNF15 at checkout for a 15% discount.Newsletter: Rage Against the AlgorithmShow notes: brendanomeara.comSupport:

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57:32

Episode 455: Will McGrath's Season on the Sidelines...

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O"Meara ·

2025/03/07

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 Boys," chronicles the season and the lives of a group of young basketball players. It harkens back to Darcy Frey's brilliant book The Last Shot.Podcast Specific Substack: https://substack.com/@creativenonfictionpodcastPre-order The Front RunnerPromotional Sponsor: The Power of Narrative Conference. Use CNF15 at checkout for a 15% discount.Newsletter:

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58:39

Episode 454: Allegra Rosenberg's Tale of Love on Ice...

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O"Meara ·

2025/02/28

Allegra Rosenberg became obsessed with polar exploration narratives during the pandemic. She soon came across the journals of Harry Pennell and learned of his love for Edward Atkinson. Set amongst the backdrop of the South Pole and the looming possibility of WWI, Allegra weaves a brilliant and tragic story.Pre-order The Front RunnerPromotional Sponsor: The Power of Narrative Conference. Use CNF15 at checkout for a 15% discount.Newsletter: Rage Against the AlgorithmShow notes:

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45:23

Episode 453: Chandlor Henderson, Live at Gratitude...

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O"Meara ·

2025/02/28

Chandlor Henderson is the very definition of a multi-hypenate: a writer, editor, comic book writer, filmmaker, and podcaster.This conversation was recorded live at Gratitude Brewing as part of a quarterly series between the Oregon Writers Colony and The Creative Nonfiction Podcast. In this conversation we talk about his journey to Oregon from the East Coast, to focus on skills, and how graphic novels are a great vector for storytelling.Pre-order The Front RunnerPromotional Sponsor: The Power of

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57:35

Episode 452: lamb of god's Randy Blythe's Search for...

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O"Meara ·

2025/02/21

If Randy Blythe's first book, Dark Days, was about accountability, his second book, Just Beyond the Light, is about perspective.In essays ranging from the premature death of a young fan to surfing waves to revering his beloved grandmother, Randy talks about art and music and the messiness of being a creative person.Visit randyblythe.com to learn more and to see dates for his spoken-word tour in support of his latest book.Pre-order The Front RunnerSponsor: The Power of Narrative Conference. Use CNF15

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59:08

Episode 451: When Beach Read Meets a System with...

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O"Meara ·

2025/02/14

Lindsay Jill Roth was told by a tutor at a young age that she'd become a writer one day. At the time she laughed, but it came to be. Lindsay is the author of the novel What Pretty Girls Are Made Of and her latest is Romances & Practicalities: A Love Story (Maybe Yours) in 250 Questions.Lindsay talks about the writing of the book, structuring it, and how working in television and radio informed the storytelling mechanics of the book.Pre-order The Front RunnerSponsor: The Power of Narrative

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66:26

Episode 450: Ahead of Super Bowl LIX, John Eisenberg...

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O"Meara ·

2025/02/07

John Eisenberg grew up surrounded by books. It was no surprise then that he wanted to write them one day. He has written eleven, his latest being Rocket Men: The Black Quarterbacks Who Revolutionized Pro Football.Pre-order The Front RunnerSponsor: The Power of Narrative Conference. Use CNF15 at checkout for a 15% discount.Newsletter: Rage Against the AlgorithmShow notes: brendanomeara.comSupport: Patreon.com/cnfpod

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74:12

Episode 449: Drew Philp Wants to Make Spanakopita Out...

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O"Meara ·

2025/01/31

Drew Philp went to Ethiopia to report on the front lines of what was likely a genocide that largely went ignored. His story, "There Will Be No Mercy," is for The Atavist Magazine.Pre-order The Front RunnerSponsor: The Power of Narrative Conference. Use CNF15 at checkout for a 15% discount.Newsletter: Rage Against the AlgorithmShow notes: brendanomeara.comSupport: Patreon.com/cnfpod

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63:24

Episode 448: Evan Ratliff Returns … Or Did He?

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O"Meara ·

2025/01/24

Evan Ratliff's work often overlaps with the tech industry whether he's disappearing himself as he did for Wired Magazine, or exploring the murky world of AI voice agents as he did with his blockbuster, smashing, DIY podcast Shell Game.Pre-order The Front RunnerSponsor: The Power of Narrative Conference. Use CNF15 at checkout for a 15% discount.Newsletter: Rage Against the AlgorithmShow notes: brendanomeara.comSupport: Patreon.com/cnfpod

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70:52

Episode 447: Brooke Champagne Sits Back from the...

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O"Meara ·

2025/01/17

Brooke Champagne (@champagne_brooke) is a writer in the thick of it: the grind of it, the messiness of it, the working-out-of-it. One minute with Brooke and you know you're in for rollicking fun conversation about the essay, about writing, and about Nola Face: A Latina's Life in the Big Easy (University of Georgia Press).Pre-order The Front RunnerSponsor: The Power of Narrative Conference. Use CNF15 at checkout for a 15% discount.Newsletter: Rage Against the AlgorithmShow notes:

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70:52

Episode 446: Harrison Scott Key and the Plight of Memoir

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O"Meara ·

2025/01/10

Harrison Scott Key knows how to write a funny book, and he did it again, this time with How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told (Avid Reader Press). Only this time, he found a way to find the funny as his marriage was under duress.Pre-order The Front RunnerSponsor: The Power of Narrative Conference. Use CNF15 at checkout for a 15% discount.Newsletter: Rage Against the AlgorithmShow notes: brendanomeara.comSupport: Patreon.com/cnfpod

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57:18

Episode 445: For Andrew Dubbins, It's About the Love...

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O"Meara ·

2025/01/03

For Andrew Dubbins, stories of this nature are resource intensive, so he’s always seeking the story engine, what drives the narrative forward. In this case, it’s a cops-and-robbers story with sibling discord at the center.It’s that Atavisitan time of the month and we have Andrew Dubbins, a journalist based out of L.A. who tells the tale about the After Dark Bandit: The Police couldn't’ figure out how the perpetrator ripped off two banks at the same time. Until they discovered there wasn't just one

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63:17

Episode 444: Stephanie Gorton Embraces the Messiness

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O"Meara ·

2024/12/27

Stephanie Gorton once fretted over her not-neat process of writing books and soon came to embrace her messiness as a feature, not a bug, while she wrote The Icon & the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America (Ecco). (Photo credit Sasha Israel)Pre-order The Front RunnerSponsor: The Power of Narrative Conference. Use CNF15 at checkout for a 15% discount.Newsletter: Rage Against the AlgorithmShow notes: brendanomeara.comSupport:

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67:18

Episode 443: Jared Sullivan and the Subtle Art of the...

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O"Meara ·

2024/12/20

Jared Sullivan got his start primarily editing and admired the kinds of writers and reporters who do both well, like a David Remnick. Valley So Low is Jared's new book, and it is along the lines of Jonathan Harr’s A Civil Action and illustrates the toll that greed and negligence exert on the people exposed to toxins and the cost cases of this nature take on the legal team, both financial and physical.Jared’s work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Garden & Gun, Men’s Journal, and

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