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Hashtag #CNF Episode 2—Author/Nonfiction Editor Tom McAllister

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O'Meara

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The Challenges of Writing Well About Pop Culture

Pop culture writing balances on this threat like it can be great but it doesn't take much for it to just fall off and devolve. I think there's always a risk of people kind of going for the cheap joke sometimes or not realizing never going beyond just pointing out interesting things about the culture. And even more than that I think what they neglect when it comes to creative nonfiction or literary nonfiction or whatever term people use is usually has some human relationships at the heart of it.

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