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
11 episodes
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 at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Her research foc...
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 Biography for General Readers (Ottawa: William & Park, 2023) —
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?
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
There’s No Need to Shout
I find out from the audiologist that I need hearing aids