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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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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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64:39

Episode 442: Steven Hyden Revisits Springsteen's...

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O"Meara ·

2024/12/13

Steven Hyden (@steven_hydenwriter) is a music critic for Uproxx, producer of Break Stuff, the podcast about Woodstock 99, story producer for the the documentary Yacht Rock, and the author of Twilight of the Gods, This Isn’t Happening, Hard to Handle, and Long Road. His latest is There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springtseen’s ‘Born in the USA’ and the End of the Heartland (Hachette Books). For Steven, he keeps his critic brain and his fan brain fully intact. One needs the other.Gosh, we recorded

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74:00

Episode 441: Seth Wickersham Gets Them Out of the...

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O"Meara ·

2024/12/06

Seth Wickersham (@seth.wickersham on IG) didn't always want to be a sports writer, but he found his way to it by being a high school quarterback, covering the University of Missouri Tigers, and "crashing the party" at the Super Bowl with fellow writers Wright Thompson and Justin Heckert.This episode was a chance to revisit his amazing story on its ten-year anniversary, "Awakening the Giant," about Y.A. Tittle. Seth also is the author of It's Better to be Feared about the New England Patriots

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66:31

Episode 440: How to be a Truffle Pig with Kate McQueen

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O"Meara ·

2024/11/29

Kate McQueen is the editorial director for the Pollen Initiative and a literary journalist whose work is featured this month for The Atavist Magazine.The story chronicles the story of Carl von Ossietzky, a German journalist imprisoned for his dissent at the start of Hitler's rise to power. A cohort of fellow journalists sought a means to break him out. How did they do it?Newsletter: Rage Against the AlgorithmShow notes: brendanomeara.comSupport: Patreon.com/cnfpod

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60:18

Episode 439: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Paul...

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O"Meara ·

2024/11/22

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Paul Peart-Smith talk about how and why graphic interpretations are such a powerful vector for storytelling. Roxanne's An Indigenous People's History of the United States is a must-read and Paul's rendering is the perfect gateway in.Newsletter: Rage Against the AlgorithmShow notes: brendanomeara.comSupport: Patreon.com/cnfpod

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67:15

Episode 438: How It's All Connected with Taiyon J....

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O"Meara ·

2024/11/15

Taiyon J. Coleman a professor and the author of Traveling without Moving: Essays from a Black Woman Trying to Survive in America (Univ. of Minnesota Press).Newsletter: Rage Against the AlgorithmShow notes: brendanomeara.comSupport: Patreon.com/cnfpod

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Episode 437: Much Ado About Fact-Checking with Wudan Yan

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O"Meara ·

2024/11/08

Wudan Yan (@wudanyan) is a freelancer writer and founder of Factual, a one-of-a-kind agency committed to fact-checking.Newsletter: Rage Against the AlgorithmShow notes: brendanomeara.comSupport: Patreon.com/cnfpod

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68:36

Episode 436: Mira Ptacin and the Story of How One...

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O"Meara ·

2024/11/01

Mira Ptacin (@miramptacin) is a writer and journalist who story, The Crash of the Hammer, ran in The Atavist Magazine. She's also the author of Poor Your Soul and The In-Betweens. Visit magazine.atavist.com to read her story about how a small town in Maine drove out a Neo-Nazi.Newsletter: Rage Against the AlgorithmShow notes: brendanomeara.comSupport: Patreon.com/cnfpod

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45:02

Episode 435: Seth Godin Travels at the Speed of Trust...

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O"Meara ·

2024/10/25

Seth Godin is the best-selling author of more than twenty books and his latest is This is Strategy: Make Better Plans.Newsletter: Rage Against the AlgorithmShow notes: brendanomeara.comSupport: Patreon.com/cnfpod

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45:23

Episode 434: Mirin Fader on Notebooks, Finding the...

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O"Meara ·

2024/10/18

Mirin Fader is a staff writer for The Ringer and the author of Dream: The Life and Legacy of Hakeem Olajuwon.The book chronicles the personal and professional transformation of a transformational figure in wonderful, lucid detail.Newsletter: Rage Against the AlgorithmShow notes: brendanomeara.comSupport: Patreon.com/cnfpod

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60:13

Episode 433: The Perils of Playing it Safe with Chase...

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O"Meara ·

2024/10/11

Chase Jarvis is the author of Never Play it Safe: A Practical Guide to Freedom, Creativity, and a Life You Love (Harper Business).Chase was writing a completely different book, was almost done with it, then scrapped it altogether to write what became Never Play it Safe in, oh, about two months. We talk about intuition, why volume/quantity matters, how success leaves clues, and the secret hero of the book.Newsletter: Rage Against the AlgorithmShow notes: brendanomeara.comSupport:

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57:02

Episode 432: Betsy Golden Kellem, Scholar of the...

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O"Meara ·

2024/10/04

Betsy Golden Kellem (@bgkellem on IG) is a lawyer and historian whose "City on Fire" appears in The Atavist Magazine and chronicles a conspiracy in 1864 by northern Confederate sympathizers to burn Manhattan to the ground.Newsletter: Rage Against the AlgorithmShow notes: brendanomeara.comSupport: Patreon.com/cnfpod

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59:54

Episode 431: Sean Enfield, Author of 'Holy American...

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O"Meara ·

2024/09/27

Sean Enfield (@seanseanclan on IG) is an essayist, education, gardener, bassist, and author of the collection Holy American Burnout (Split/Lip Press).Newsletter: Rage Against the AlgorithmShow notes: brendanomeara.comSupport: Patreon.com/cnfpod

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26:53

Episode 430: Louisa Thomas Knows How to End a Story

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O"Meara ·

2024/09/20

Louisa Thomas is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams and Mind and Matter.We talk about a profile she wrote on Nikola Jokic as well as her incredible knack for a great kicker.Newsletter: Rage Against the AlgorithmShow notes: brendanomeara.comSupport: Patreon.com/cnfpod

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52:32

Episode 429: What Does It Mean to be a 'Hungry Author'?

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O"Meara ·

2024/09/13

Liz Morrow (@liz_morrow) and Ariel Curry (@arielkcurry) are the co-authors of Hungry Authors (@hungryauthors): The Indispensable Guide to Planning, Writing, and Publishing a Nonfiction Book (Rowman & Littlefield).They are a special team and — with their powers combined — created a wonderful guide that is tactical, practical, and informative about how to navigate the business to get your book published.Newsletter: Rage Against the AlgorithmShow notes: brendanomeara.comSupport:

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103:54

Episode 428: Brin-Jonathan Butler Remembers Flacco...

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O"Meara ·

2024/09/06

Brin-Jonathan Butler is a journalist and author of The Grandmaster and The Domino Diaries.Newsletter: Rage Against the AlgorithmShow notes: brendanomeara.comSupport: Patreon.com/cnfpod

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57:56

Episode 427: Kelsey Rexroat on Dealing with the...

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O"Meara ·

2024/08/30

Kelsey Rexroat is a freelance journalist and copy editor who recently reported and wrote a brilliant love story for The Atavist Magazine. Visit magazine.atavist.com to read it.Newsletter: Rage Against the AlgorithmShow notes: brendanomeara.comSupport: Patreon.com/cnfpod

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71:44

Episode 426: Asking for Blurbs, Unauthorized...

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O"Meara ·

2024/08/23

Ian O'Connor (@Ian_OConnor) is the author of several best-selling books. His latest is Out of the Darkness: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers (Mariner Books).Newsletter: Rage Against the AlgorithmShow notes: brendanomeara.comSupport: Patreon.com/cnfpod

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70:39

Episode 425: The Most Brazen of Genres with Madeleine...

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O"Meara ·

2024/08/16

Madeleine Blais is the author of several books, her latest being Queen of the Court: The Many Lives of Tennis Legend Alice Marble (Grove Press), now out in paperback.Newsletter: Rage Against the AlgorithmShow notes: brendanomeara.comSupport: Patreon.com/cnfpodIn the parting shot, I made an error in math referring to the number of hypothetical Mondays remaining in my life. The "correct" number is 1,872. The error has been scrubbed.

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66:14

Episode 424: Tommy Tomlinson on Aiming for One-Word...

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O"Meara ·

2024/08/09

Tommy Tomlinson is a journalist and author of Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show (Avid Reader Press).Newsletter: Rage Against the AlgorithmShow notes: brendanomeara.comSupport: Patreon.com/cnfpod

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