Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Paul Peart-Smith talk about how and why graphic interpretations are such a powerful vector for storytelling. Roxanne's An Indigenous People's History of the United States is a must-read and Paul's rendering is the perfect gateway in.

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Episode 439: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Paul Peart-Smith Bring a Graphic Interpretation of “An Indigenous People’s History of the United States” to Life

Taiyon J. Coleman a professor and the author of Traveling without Moving: Essays from a Black Woman Trying to Survive in America (Univ. of Minnesota Press).

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Episode 438: How It’s All Connected with Taiyon J. Coleman

Wudan Yan (@wudanyan) is a freelancer writer and founder of Factual [https://factual.squarespace.com/], a one-of-a-kind agency committed to fact-checking.

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Episode 437: Much Ado About Fact-Checking with Wudan Yan

Mira Ptacin (@miramptacin) is a writer and journalist who story, The Crash of the Hammer, ran  in The Atavist Magazine. She's also the author of Poor Your Soul and The In-Betweens. Visit magazine.atavist.com to read her story about how a small town in Maine drove out a Neo-Nazi.

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Episode 436: Mira Ptacin and the Story of How One Town Drove Out a Nazi

Seth Godin is the best-selling author of more than twenty books and his latest is This is Strategy: Make Better Plans.

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Episode 435: Seth Godin Travels at the Speed of Trust in ‘This is Strategy’

Mirin Fader is a staff writer for The Ringer and the author of Dream: The Life and Legacy of Hakeem Olajuwon.

The book chronicles the personal and professional transformation of a transformational figure in wonderful, lucid detail.

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Episode 434: Mirin Fader on Notebooks, Finding the Breakthrough, Biography, and “Dream”

Chase Jarvis is the author of Never Play it Safe: A Practical Guide to Freedom, Creativity, and a Life You Love (Harper Business).

Chase was writing a completely different book, was almost done with it, then scrapped it altogether to write what became Never Play it Safe in, oh, about two months. We talk about intuition, why volume/quantity matters,  how success leaves clues, and the secret hero of the book.

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Episode 433: The Perils of Playing it Safe with Chase Jarvis

Betsy Golden Kellem (@bgkellem on IG) is a lawyer and historian whose "City on Fire" appears in The Atavist Magazine and chronicles a conspiracy in 1864 by northern Confederate sympathizers to burn Manhattan to the ground.

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Episode 432: Betsy Golden Kellem, Scholar of the Unusual, Closet Historian, Atavist Writer

Sean Enfield (@seanseanclan on IG) is an essayist, education, gardener, bassist, and author of the collection Holy American Burnout (Split/Lip Press).

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Episode 431: Sean Enfield, Author of ‘Holy American Burnout’ Hates the Word Burnout

Louisa Thomas is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams and Mind and Matter.

We talk about a profile she wrote on Nikola Jokic as well as her incredible knack for a great kicker.

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Episode 430: Louisa Thomas Knows How to End a Story

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O'Meara is a weekly podcast that showcases leaders in narrative journalism, essay, memoir, documentary film, radio and podcasts about the art and craft of telling true stories.   Follow the show @creativenonfictionpodcast on Instagram and Threads and visit patreon.com/cnfpod to support!

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