Jun 15, 2018
Here we are again, welcome to The Creative Nonfiction Podcast, the
show where I speak to the best artists about telling true stories.
I’m Brendan O’Meara. I gotta say right up top that there’s been
some serious issues with my hosting, Podomatic for those in the
know, with the RSS Feeds. Shows are coming up unavailable in Apple
Podcasts and it disappeared from Google Play and Stitcher. They say
they’re on it, but it’s been three days with no improvement. You
can still stream the episodes from the embedded player on my
website, brendanomeara.com, but in the meantime, downloading
through the most popular and widely used platform—Apple Podcasts—is
impossible until Podomatic gets it fixed. You might say I’ve been
shopping around for other options. Episode 104 brings back
Elizabeth Rush to the podcast. Her new book Rising: Dispataches
from the New American Shore (Milkweed Editions) is out. She could
be coming to a city near you so check the show notes for the Rising
Tour. I think that’s what Bruce Springsteen called his tour when
his Rising came out. In this episode we talk about: Rising sea
levels How to turn bleak material into something beautiful How
Elizabeth finds teaching energizing And sexual harassment while
doing fieldwork, something she’s never been asked about and was
happy to get to talk about. So that’s where we’re at. Please bear
with me on the RSS nonsense. If you follow the social feeds, that
links you up to my website so go find @CNFPod and @BrendanOMeara on
Twitter and @CNFPodcast on Facebook. Follow Elizabeth
@ElizabethaRush on Twitter for all things Rising. If you made it
this far I suspect you might like the show and want to help it out.
Would you mind leaving an honest review on Apple Podcasts? That
helps with validation and visibility. Let’s try and get to 100.
We’re 57 ratings away at the moment. If a small fraction of you
take out your phones, click on the star you deem appropriate, hit
submit, that’s all you gotta do and you will have helped out the
show in a major way. That takes like 10 seconds, if you want to
leave a review, I will still edit a piece of writing up to 2,000
words for your kindness and time. Just send me a screenshot of the
review with the date and we’ll get started. I also have a great
monthly reading list newsletter where I send out four book
recommendations and what you might have missed from the world of
the podcast. I don’t get any kickbacks or anything, so it’s just
things I dig and endorse for your pleasure. First of the month. No
Spam. Can’t beat that.