The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O'Meara

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Episode 222: Catherine Grace Katz on One-Word Distillations, the Thrill of Research and 'The Daughters of Yalta' Oct 02, 2020

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"It's when you get stuck and you start to realize something's not right. It's usually because you're wrong," says Catherine Grace Katz, @Catherine_Katz on Twitter.

She is the author The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War. It's published by Houghton, Mifflin, Harcourt.

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Episode 221: Power Couple Ashley Molesso and Chess Needham Bring You 'The Gay Agenda' Sep 25, 2020

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Ashley Molesso and Chess Needham (@ashandchess) are here to talk about their incredible and beautiful book The Gay Agenda: A Modern Queer History and Handbook (Morrow Gift, 2020) as well their stationery business that pushes art into the political realm.

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Episode 220: The Unreality of Elisa Gabbert Sep 18, 2020

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Elisa Gabbert (@egabbert) returns to talk about her new book The Unreality of Memory (FSG, 2020), as well has her poetry and how it ties into her prose.

You'll also hear the five books for her Bookshelf for the Apocalypse and much, much more.

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Episode 219: Matt Hongoltz-Hetling — $30 Stories, Brute-Force Freelancing (And Some Bears) Sep 11, 2020

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Matt Hongoltz-Hetling is a freelance writer and author of A Libertarian Walks into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears). It is published by Public Affairs.

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Episode 218: Mary Pilon, Louisa Thomas, Seasoned Losers Sep 04, 2020

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Mary Pilon (@marypilon) and Louisa Thomas (@louisathomas) are here to talk about the book they edited together called Losers: Dispatches from the Other Side of the Scoreboard (Penguin).

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Episode 217: Lidia Yuknavitch on Usefulness, Riding the Wave, and Being a Word Creature Aug 28, 2020

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Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the Scribd original "Letter to My Rage," as well as the memoir The Chronology of Water, the novels The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children, and the collection Verge.

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Episode 216: All-Star Break and a Work-in-Progress Aug 21, 2020

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In this all-star break edition, the top ten downloaded interviews of the year and I read from a work-in-progress titled "Raph, the Space Cadet."

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Episode 215: Jean Guerrero on Community, Journalism in the Age of Trump, and Her Stephen Miller Biography 'Hatemonger' Aug 14, 2020

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"It's a whole new world. I remember I was reporting for the Stephen Miller book, I went to Trump's first reelection rally in Orlando. And it was the first time that I had ever been in a place where I felt reluctant and kind of scared to tell people that I was a journalist. I wasn't there undercover. I was there to interview people. It made me nervous to be walking around with my notebook out because there were so many chants against journalists," says Jean Guerrero, author of Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda.

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Episode 214: Seyward Darby's Deep Dive into the 'Sisters of Hate' Aug 07, 2020

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Seyward Darby is the editor in chief of The Atavist Magazine and the author of Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism.

Episode 213: Tornados, BDSM Potlucks? Welcome to Tomboyland with Melissa Faliveno Jul 31, 2020

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Melissa Faliveno, author of Tomboyland: Essays (Topple Books, 2020) joins me on the show to talk about softball, vegetarianism, tornados, and why she wrote essays instead of a memoir.

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