The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O'Meara Podcast
1) 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 on their answers. When you do that, it tells the su...Show More
2) 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 brilliant short story writer and the author of the memoi...Show More
3) 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 will be interested in it. It's very easy to feel ...Show More
4) 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 episode 501 with Julian Brave NoiseCat, author of the memoir...Show More
5) 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. Hey CNFers, this is Episode 500 of The Creative Nonfi...Show More
6) 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 future. I think it is something that you know probab...Show More
7) Episode 498: Sasha Bonet on Not Holding Back
"I have this desire to write as a novelist might write but write nonfiction," says Sasha Bonet, the author of The Waterbearers: A Memoir of Mothers and Daughters (Knopf). Today we have the brilliant ...Show More
8) 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 Rodolico, who is a bit of an audio maven, but he comes...Show More
9) 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
10) 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