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Episode 420: Rebecca Renner Makes the Pig

By Brendan O’Meara

Look who it is! It’s Rebecca Renner (@rebeccarennerfl on IG), freelance journalist and author of Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades (Flatiron Books).

Rebecca‘s work has appeared in National Geographic, Outside Magazine, and The Paris Review, among others.

I was struck by Rebecca’s self-assuredness, something I categorically lack, which made me think during this conversation as it was happening, like, Wow, what must that be like?

Episode 358: Erica J. Berry

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By Brendan O’Meara

Look who’s back! It’s Erica J. Berry (@ericajberry) and she’s here to talk about Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear (Flatiron Books).

Erica came on the show back in 2017 (I shudder to think of the audio) and it’s worth revisiting, and it’s nice that nearly six years later her work has evolved so greatly that we now get to talk about her magnificent book.

In this episode, we talk about: