The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O'Meara Podcast
1) 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
2) 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
3) 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
4) 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
5) 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
6) 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
7) 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 make it suit you," says Roz Chast a cartoonist and ...Show More
8) 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 like my work and ambitions for the work and daydreams...Show More
9) 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. And there's just so many things about my character t...Show More
10) 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. We have Julia Barton. Julia was the third hire, I think...Show More