September 2025 – Home of The Creative Nonfiction Podcast

Episode 492: The Host Becomes the Hosted — Brendan O’Meara in conversation with Daniel Littlewood

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Hey CNFers, it’s the creative nonfiction podcast, the show I speak to primarily writers about the art and craft of telling true stories. I’m Brendan O’Meara, very tired, very tired, had a big, eventful weekend and my battery has bottomed out. And I’m going to the Redwoods for 3 days so I’m producing this episode on a Monday and what do you know? Who the fuck does this host think he is being a guest on his own fuckin’ podcast? The fuckin’ nerve of this guy. That’s right, for the third live taping of the Creative Nonfiction Podcast at Gratitude Brewing, I was interviewed by the brilliant Daniel Littlewood, who kinda makes me look and sound like a jabroni’s jabroni.

Episode 491: How Tracy Slater Broke Her Book into Steps

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“Writing a book is so overwhelming. So what I do to manage my own anxiety and overwhelm about that is I’m really, really obsessed with breaking everything into little steps so that all I need to do is the next step and then I don’t get overwhelmed.” — Tracy Slater, author of Together in Manzanar

Episode 490: Seeing the Fish and the Tank with Jeff Chang

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“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 struggles of it, but you’re back in it, and then I couldn’t be stopped.” — Jeff Chang, author of Water, Mirror, Echo.

Episode 489: Staying Power, Book Promotion, Platform, and ‘Slip,’ a Memoir-Plus with Mallary Tenore Tarpley

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“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 important to remember that those lists are really hard to get on, and there can be this nice long tail in terms of the impact of a book where maybe it doesn’t necessarily get a ton of sales in that first week or that first month. But over time, it continues to sell, right? And then you get these bumps, and you realize that, oh, this book has staying power.” — Mallary Tenore Tarpley, author of Slip: Life in the Middle of Eating Disorder Recovery

Episode 488: Bill McKibben, the Dark Realist, Faces the Light

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“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 [solar] isn’t alternative energy, that it’s the obvious, straightforward, common sense and very beautiful way to power the world going forward. To use the analogy I’ve been using, it’s not any longer the Whole Foods of energy: nice, but pricey. It is now the Costco of energy: cheap available in bulk on the shelf, ready to go.” — Bill McKibben, author of Here Comes the Sun.

Imagine a world …

Episode 487: Robert Weintraub and the ‘American Hindenburg’

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“Writing is so easily not done.” — Robert Weintraub