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Episode 158: Naomi Gordon-Loebl—F*ck, Yeah! Essays

“There’s always gonna be people who are better than you, and there’s also people who’re gonna be worse than you, but that can’t be the reason you write or don’t write.” — Naomi Gordon-Loebl (@naomigloebl)

Hey, CNFers, welcome to this installment featuring Naomi Gordon-Loebl, an essayist and journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Hazlitt, and more.

She grew up in a communal household in Brooklyn, has a twin sister, won the parent lottery, and is finding her footing as a writer passionate about LGBT issues, but it was her NYT essay on getting the “yips” that made me reach out.

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Episode 146—Austin Kleon: Steal, Show, and Keep Going!

Austin Kleon, author of *Keep Going,* stopped by the show this week.

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By Brendan O’Meara

“Maybe the world will always be crazy, and creative work will always be hard. Then the question becomes: How do you keep going?” —Austin Kleon

“Even if you’re a company of one, you need some R&D time.” —Austin Kleon

Welcome to The Creative Nonfiction Podcast, the show where I speak to badass writers, filmmakers, producers, and podcasters about the art and craft of telling true stories.

Today’s guest is one of my favorite writers: Austin Kleon. His latest book, Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad, is an amazing little book that does what it sets out to do. If you’re in the Portland, OR area on April 11, he’ll be at Powell’s talking the talk. For more tour dates, go here.

In this episode we talk about his early days as a librarian, how his books talk to each other, researching in public, re-pitching art as a verb (when people desperately want to be the “noun,” and, of course, how to keep going.

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Thanks to our show’s patrons in Goucher College’s MFA in Nonfiction and Bay Path University’s MFA in Creative Nonfiction for the support. Please enjoy my conversation with Austin Kleon!

Books By Austin Kleon

Newspaper Blackout
Steal Like an Artist
Show Your Work
The Steal Like an Artist Journal
Keep Going

Episode 137—Bozos on the Same Bus with Bronwen and Brendan

Bronwen Dickey, author of Pit Bull: The Battle Over an American Icon, came by for the third time.

By Brendan O’Meara

“Clarity is the goal I want to be working toward. The more clear a piece of writing is, the more honest it feels.” —Bronwen Dickey (@BronwenDickey)

Ever feel like a garden gnome without a garden? That’s why I started this racket in 2013. This is the Creative Nonfiction Podcast, the show where I talk to badass writers, filmmakers, and producers about the art and craft of telling true stories.

Today’s guest returns for her third time. It’s Bronwen Dickey, author of Pit Bull: The Battle Over an American Icon. She is LITerally, my best friend even though we’ve never met in person. She was so sweet. She asked about my baseball book as soon as she came on the phone and indulged me for almost seven minutes. So naturally I cut it.

MONTHLY NEWSLETTER!: Once a Month. No Spam. Can’t Beat It.

MONTHLY NEWSLETTER!: Once a Month. No Spam. Can’t Beat It.

Books By Austin Kleon