False Stories
This podcast is about life-writing and fiction, about telling the truth and mixing it with imagined stories. Some or all of some of these stories may or may not be completely true or untrue. — Music: "Le noir et la rage," DIY-Note, Free Music Archive, CC BY-NC — Logo: Canva, Google Gemini
Episodes
Of monkeys, millionaires, and lattes
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Julie Rak (FRSC) holds the Henry Marshall Tory Chair in the Department of English and Film Studies and is a Strategic Research Chair in Arts at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Her research focus is nonfiction, including books such as False Summit: Gender in Mountaineering Nonfiction (2021), Boom! Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market (2013), and Negotiated Memory: Doukhobor Autobiographic...
It's hard enough to know what's true in real life, and even harder in fiction — The biography mentioned in the episode: Wayne Jones, My Sam Johnson: A Biography for General Readers (Ottawa: William & Park, 2023) —
Sometimes it's loud and sometimes it's still
Naked in a field, secluded for a while in another one
Brown sauces in history: two narratives.
My friend Larry has horror stories about dating apps, but is there a happy ending?
Wayne discusses truth and falsehood in stories, and demonstrates his points about nuance and explicitness with examples from two very different songs
I find out from the audiologist that I need hearing aids
I replace my pancake mop with a yacht mop, and a few surprising things happen | Female voice generated from ttsMP3.com
I become obsessed with a detail of my new car, but when I arrive at the coffee shop something really deserving attention occurs.
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