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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
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Cloudy with a Chance of Bison
Jude lives in a home where he solves problems for his anonymous employer
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A Dream of Seoul in Northwest Calgary
— I have a dream about looking for something that I never find — Kari Hohne, “Looking for Something,” Café au Soul…
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Me, Minimalism, and Memoir
— I read some excerpts from my memoir about minimalism — Less and Less: Personal Minimalism (Ottawa: William & Park, 2023) — wayne@waynejones.ca —
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Interview with Julie Rak: Personal Nonfiction, Memoir, Biography, and Life Writing
|INTERVIEW GUEST| 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…
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Fiction Is Not True, Truth Is Hard—and with an Addendum of My Confessions About Crimes I Have Committed
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…
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Swipe Right or Keep Scrolling or Do Something Before We Ask You for More Money
My friend Larry has horror stories about dating apps, but is there a happy ending?
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Just a Story
Wayne discusses truth and falsehood in stories, and demonstrates his points about nuance and explicitness with examples from two very different songs
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I Hesitantly Buy a Yacht Mop
I replace my pancake mop with a yacht mop, and a few surprising things happen | Female voice generated from ttsMP3.com
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This Car Isn’t Working Properly, Sir
I become obsessed with a detail of my new car, but when I arrive at the coffee shop something really deserving attention occurs.