The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O'Meara Podcast
1) 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 mentally healthy. Leigh Montville, great, great writ...Show More
2) 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 what other people aren't doing, that we do , and ...Show More
3) 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, from my from my experience, I've read a lot of m...Show More
4) 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 Masha Hamilton, whose Atavist Magazine story is ti...Show More
5) 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 thumb on the scale, you need to assert your own point...Show More
6) 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 about that is I'm really, really obsessed with break...Show More
7) 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 remember the joy that you had in it, also the stru...Show More
8) 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 an amazing number of week-one sales, but it's impor...Show More
9) 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 alternative energy, that it's the obvious, straightforwar...Show More
10) 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 lead editor Jonah Ogles about his side of the table and h...Show More