The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O'Meara

Brendan O'Meara

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The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O'Meara

Episodes (533)

Friday Episode 512: Mary Margaret Alvarado Likes Her Drafts Ice Cold
Fri Feb 6th Episode 511: Writing to Leave the Past in the Past with Jane Marie Chen
Jan 30th Episode 510: Daniel Pollack-Pelzner's Doesn't Waste His Shot in Lin-Manuel Miranda Biography

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O'Meara

Feb 13, 2026
1½ hours
142 MB

"A certain sort of dogged obsessiveness seems to help. I remember hearing Tobias Wolfe speak once that talent is wonderful and widely distributed on Earth, but sitting down and putting in the hours is where it's at," says Mary Margaret Alvarado, who wrote "That's Somebody's Son" for The Atavist. It’s a little later than planned, but here we feature Mary Margaret Alvarado’s piece for The Atavist Magazine titled “That’s Somebody’s Son: Three Mothers, One Struggle: saving their children with schizophrenia.” It’s a piece that that Mia, as Mary Margaret goes by, pitched more than a yea...

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O'Meara

Episode 512: Mary Margaret Alvarado Likes Her Drafts Ice Cold

Brendan O'Meara

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