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Shanna B. Tiayon came on the show to talk about her Pipe Wrench Magazine piece “If We Can Soar.” It’s a remarkable piece.
We talk about that and much, much more.
Check out her TEDx talk about her experience at the Grand Canyon, and read about it on Longreads.
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Brin-Jonathan Butler returns to talk about his new piece “Giving Up the Ghost.” It ran on Hazlitt.net.
It’s one of the greatest things I’ve ever read. It’s 23,000 words. I read it twice. I still can’t stop thinking about it.
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Become a Patron!Cecilia Brown (@cecilbrownn) is on the show to talk about “So Nice to Hear Your Voice,” her This American Life essay about her grandmother. We get into the behind-the-scenes of the piece. Great stuff.
What else do we get into?
Continue reading “Episode 269: The Visionary Life of Cecilia Brown, Making Pictures, and This American Life”
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Become a Patron!Alison Herman (@aherman2006) is a staff writer for The Ringer, who writes about all kinds of TV and movies and the like.
What prompted this conversation was her piece about David Gelb, the filmmaker behind Jiro Dreams of Sushi and Chef’s Table.
In this episode we talk about:
Continue reading “Episode 268: Overcoming Bad Viewing Hygiene with The Ringer’s Alison Herman”
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Become a Patron!The writer Suzanne Roberts (@suzanneroberts28) came by CNF Pod HQ to talk all things writing and memoir and Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel (University of Nebraska Press, 2020).
Had a wonderful time talking to her about:
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Kristen Radtke is the author of Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness. Let me tell you, CNFers, this book spoke to me like few others do. Such is the life as a lonely podcaster.
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Become a Patron!Rachel Monroe (@rachmonroe) is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic and myriad other places.
Her latest piece for The New Yorker is about ransomware and hacker negotiators. She wrote a piece about #vanlife for The New Yorker back in 2017 that garnered all kinds of buzz.
Continue reading “Episode 264: Rachel Monroe Talks About the Things Writers Don’t Tweet About”
Michelle Weber and Catherine Cusick are the editor-in-chief and publisher of Pipe Wrench Magazine, a new venture that aims to fix what’s broken in journalism and publishing.
This is a fun conversation about the founding of the magazine and Michelle and Catherine are doing to help change the culture. You can find Issue 1 here, and they just went live with Issue 2 this week.
The pair overlapped at Longreads and parlayed much of that experience into Pipe Wrench, so we talk about that, among other things.
At one point Cartherine brings up this notion of “ramen startups,” and she’s referring to a blog post from Paul Graham. This means keeping things lean and nimble and not overextending and growing too fast.
Great talk!
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Wudan Yan and Jenni Gritters are back!
They host The Writers’ Co-op Podcast, and it is back for Season 3, a season in which they focus on coaching.
Lots of good stuff here including:
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Lilly Dancyger (@lillydancyger) is here to talk about her new book Negative Space. She also edited the collection Burn It Down: Women Writing About Anger.
Negative Space is a detective story as Lilly seeks out her father’s past. He passed away when she was a very young girl. He was a brilliant artists, but tortured by addiction.
Continue reading “Episode 259: Lilly Dancyger on Building Community and Finding Her Father in ‘Negative Space’”